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  • WOOD PLEA COURT
    A court held twice in the year in the forest of Clun, in Shropshire, for determining all matters of wood and' agistments. Cowell.
  • WOOD-STREET COMPTER
    The name of an old prison in London.
  • WOODS
    A forest; land covered with a large and thick collection of natural forest trees. The old books say that a grant of "all his woods'" (omnes boscos suos) will pass the land, as well as the trees growing upon It Co. Litt 4b. See Averitt v. Murrell, 49 N. C. More...
  • WOODWARDS
    Officers of the forest, whose duty consists in looking after the wood and vert and venison, and preventing offenses relating to the same. Manw. 189.
  • WOOL-SACK
    The seat of the lord chancellor of England In the house of lords, being a large square bag of wool, without back or arms, covered with red cloth. Webster; Brande.
  • WOOL SORTERS' DISEASE
    In medical jurisprudence. A popular name for malignant anthrax, a disease characterized by malignant pustules or carbuncles, caused by infection by putrid animal matter containing the bacillus anthracls, and chiefly prevalent among persons whose business is to handle wool and hides, such as tanners, butchers, and herdsmen. See Bacon v. More...
  • WORDS
    As nsed in law, this word generally signifles the technical terms and phrases appropriate to particular instruments, or aptly fitted to the expression of a particular Intention in legal instruments. See the subtitles following. —Words of art. The vocabulary or terminology of a particular art or science, and especially those More...
  • WORK AND LABOR
    The name of one of the common counts in actions of assumpsit, being for work and labor done and materials furnished! by the plaintiff for the defendant.
  • WORK-BEAST, OR WORK-HORSE
    These terms mean an animal of the horse kind, which can be rendered fit for service, as well as one of maturer age and in actual use. Winfrey v. Zimmerman, 8 Bush (Ky.) 587.
  • WORK-HOUSE
    A place where convicts (or paupers) are confined and kept at labor.
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