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  • WITHER SAKE
    An apostate, or perfidious renegade. Cowell.
  • WITHOUT DAY
    A term used to signify that an adjournment or continuance is indefinite or final, or that no subsequent time is fixed for another meeting, or for further proceedings. See SINE DIE.
  • WITHOUT IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE
    The effect of the insertion of this clause in a lease for life is to give the tenant the right to cut timber on the estate, without making himself thereby liable to an action for waste.
  • WITHOUT PREJUDICE
    Where an offer or admission is made "without prejudice," or a motion is denied or a bill in equity dismissed "without prejudice," it is meant as a declaration that no rights or privileges of the party concerned are to be considered as thereby waived or lost except in so far More...
  • WITHOUT RECOURSE
    This phrase, used in making a qualified indorsement of a negotiable instrument, signifies that the Indorser means to save himself from liability to subsequent holders, and is a notification that, if payment is refused by the parties primarily liable, recourse cannot be had to him. See Thompson v. First State More...
  • WITHOUT RESERVE
    A term applied to a sale by auction, indicating that no price Is reserved.
  • WITHOUT STINT
    Without limit; without any specified number.
  • WITHOUT THIS THAT
    In pleading. Formal words used in pleadings by way of traverse, particularly by way of special traverse, importing an express denial of some matter of fact alleged in a previous pleading. Steph. PI. 168, 169, 179, 180.
  • WITNESS
    v. To subscribe one's name to a deed, will, or other document, for the pur-pose of attesting its authenticity, and proving its execution, if required, by bearing witness thereto.
  • WITNESS
    n. In the primary sense of the word, a witness is a person who has knowledge of an event. As the most direct mode of acquiring knowledge of an event is by seeing it, "witness" has acquired the sense of a person who is present at and observes a transaction. More...
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