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  • WITNESSING PART
    In a deed or other formal instrument, is that part which conies after the recitals, or, where there are no recitals, after the parties. It usually commences with a reference to the agreement or intention to be effectuated, then states or re-fers to the consideration, and concludes with the operative More...
  • WITTINGLY
    With knowledge and by design, excluding only cases which are the result of accident or forgetfulness, and including cases where one does an unlawful act through an erroneous belief of his right Osborne v. Warren, 44 Conn. 357.
  • WOLD
    In England. A down or champaign ground, hilly and void of wood. Cowell; Blount.
  • WOLF'S HEAD
    In old English law. This term was used as descriptive of the condition of an outlaw. Such persons were said to carry a wolf's head, (caput lupinum;) for if caught alive they were to be brought to the king, and if they defended themselves they might be slain and their More...
  • WOMEN
    All the females of the human species. AH such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Dig. 50, 16, 13.
  • WONG
    Sax. In old records. A field. Spelman; Cowell.
  • WOOD-CORN
    In old records. A certain quantity of oats or other grain, paid by customary tenants to the lord, for liberty to pick up dead or broken wood. Cowell.
  • WOOD-GELD
    In old English law. Money paid for the liberty of taking wood in a forest. Cowell. Immunity from such payment Spelman.
  • WOOD LEAVE
    A license or right to cut down, remove, and use standing timber on a given estate or tract of land. Osborne v. O'Reilly, 42 N. J. Eq. 467, 9 Atl. 209.
  • WOOD-MOTE
    In forest law. The old name of the court of attachments; other¬wise called the "Forty-Days Court" Cowell; 3 Bl. Comm. 71.
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