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Wedlock
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WedlockBeing married. Has the same meaning as "matrimony." Used mostly to refer to illegitimate children as "born out of wedlock."
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Illegitimate
That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child.
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Way bill
Contracts. A writing in which is set down the names of passengers, who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land; when the goods are carried by water, the instrument is called a bill of lading.
Way going crop
In Pennsylvania, by the custom of the, country, a tenant for a term certain is entitled after the expiration of his Iease, to enter and take away the crop of grain which he had put into the ground the preceding fall. This is called the way going crop.
Ways and means
In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into, and propose to the house, the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the use of the government. This body is called the committee of ways and means.
Wear
A great dam made across a river, accommodated for the taking of fish, or to convey a stream to a mill.
Wed
A covenant or agreement; whence a wedded husband.
Wedlock
Week
1) Seven days of time. The week commences immediately after twelve o'clock, on the night between Saturday and Sunday, and ends at twelve o'clock, seven days of twenty-four hours each thereafter.
Weighage
Merchant law. In the English law it is a duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise; it is called tronage for weighing wool at the king's beam, or pesage, for weighing other avoirdupois goods.
Weight of evidence
This phrase is used to signify that the proof on one side, of a cause is greater than on the other.
Welch mortgage
English law. Contracts. A species of security which partakes of the nature of a mortgage, as there is a debt due, and an estate is given as a security for the repayment, but differs from it in the circumstances that the rents and profits are to be received without account till the principal money is paid off, and there is no remedy to enforce payment, while the mortgagor has a perpetual power of redemption.
Well
A hole dug in the earth in order to obtain water.
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Illegitimate
That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Way bill
Contracts. A writing in which is set down the names of passengers, who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land; when the goods are carried by water, the instrument is called a bill of lading.
Way going crop
In Pennsylvania, by the custom of the, country, a tenant for a term certain is entitled after the expiration of his Iease, to enter and take away the crop of grain which he had put into the ground the preceding fall. This is called the way going crop.
Ways and means
In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into, and propose to the house, the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the use of the government. This body is called the committee of ways and means.
Wear
A great dam made across a river, accommodated for the taking of fish, or to convey a stream to a mill.
Wed
A covenant or agreement; whence a wedded husband.
Wedlock
Week
1) Seven days of time. The week commences immediately after twelve o'clock, on the night between Saturday and Sunday, and ends at twelve o'clock, seven days of twenty-four hours each thereafter.
Weighage
Merchant law. In the English law it is a duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise; it is called tronage for weighing wool at the king's beam, or pesage, for weighing other avoirdupois goods.
Weight of evidence
This phrase is used to signify that the proof on one side, of a cause is greater than on the other.
Welch mortgage
English law. Contracts. A species of security which partakes of the nature of a mortgage, as there is a debt due, and an estate is given as a security for the repayment, but differs from it in the circumstances that the rents and profits are to be received without account till the principal money is paid off, and there is no remedy to enforce payment, while the mortgagor has a perpetual power of redemption.
Well
A hole dug in the earth in order to obtain water.
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