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  • WORKING DAYS
    In settling lay days, or days of demurrage, sometimes the contract specifies "working days;" in the computation, Sundays and custom-house holidays are excluded. 1 Bell, Comm. 577.
  • WORKMAN
    One who labors; one who is employed to do business for another.
  • WORKS
    This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for per-forming industrial labor of any sort (South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Pitt 114 Mo. 135, 21 S. W. 449,) and sometimes a building, struc¬ture, or erection of any kind upon land, as in the civil-law phrase **new works." More...
  • WORLD
    "this term sometimes denotes all persons whatsoever who may have, claim, or acquire an Interest in the subject-matter; as in saying that a judgment in rem binds "all the world."
  • WORSHIP
    The act of offering honor and adoration to the Divine Being. Reli¬gious exercises participated in by a number of persons assembled for that purpose, the disturbance of which is a statutory offense in many states. See Hamsher v. Hamsher, 132 111. 273, 22 N. E. 1123, 8 L. R. A. More...
  • WORT, OR WORTH
    A curtilage or country farm.
  • WORTHIEST OF BLOOD
    In the English law of descent. A term applied to males, expressive of the preference given to them over females. See 2 Bl. Comm. 234-240.
  • WORTHING OF LAND
    A certain quantity of land so called in the manor of Kingsland, in Hereford. The tenants are called "worthies." Wharton.
  • WOUND
    In criminal cases, the definition of a "wound" is an Injury to the person by which the skin is broken. State v. Leonard, 22 Mo. 451; Moriarty v. Brooks, 6 Car. & P. 684. "In legal medicine, the term 'wound' is used In a much more comprehensive sense than in More...
  • WOUNDING
    An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one person giving another some dangerous hurt 3 Bl. Comm. 121. Wreeonm maris signifioat ilia bona quae nanfragio ad terram pellnntnr. A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck.
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