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  • WRITER OF THE TALLIES
    In England An officer of the exchequer whose duty it was to write upon the tallies the letters of tellers' bills.
  • WRITER TO THE SIGNET
    In Scotch law. An officer nearly corresponding to an attorney at law, in English and American practice. "Writers to the signet" called also "clerks to the signet" derive their name from the circumstance that they were anciently clerks in the office of the secretary of state, by whom writs were More...
  • WRITING
    The expression of ideas by letters visible to the eye. Clason v. Bailey, 14 Johns. (N. Y.) 491. The giving an outward and objective form to a contract will, etc., by means of letters or marks placed upon paper, parchment, or other material substance. In the most general sense of More...
  • WRITING OBLIGATORY
    The technical name by which a bond is described in pleading. Denton v. Adams, 6 Vt- 40.
  • WRITTEN LAW
    One of the two leading divisions of the Roman law, comprising the leges, plebiscite,, senatus-consulta, prin'. eipum plaeita, magistratuum edicta, and re-sponsa prudentum. Inst 1, 2,3. Statnte law; law deriving its force from express legislative enactment. 1 BL Comm. 62, 85.
  • WRONG
    An injury; a tort; a violation of right or of law. The idea of rights naturally suggests tbe cor-relative one of wrongs; for every right is ca-pable of being violated. A right to receive payment for goods sold (for example) implies a wrong on the part of him who owes, More...
  • WRONG-DOER
    One who commits an injury; a tort-feasor.
  • WRONGFULLY INTENDING
    In the language of pleading, this phrase is appropriate to be used in alleging the malicious motive of the defendant in committing the injury which forms the cause of action.
  • WRONGOUS
    In Scotch law. Wrongful; unlawful; as wrongous imprisonment Ersk. Prin. 4, 4, 25.
  • WURTH
    In Saxon law. Worthy; competent; capable. Mheewurthe, worthy of oath; admissible or competent to be sworn. Spelman.
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