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Week1) 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.
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Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
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.
Night
That space of time during which the sun is below the horizon of the earth, except, that short space which precedes its rising and follows its setting, during which, by its light, the countenance of a man may be discerned.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
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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
Being married. Has the same meaning as "matrimony." Used mostly to refer to illegitimate children as "born out of wedlock."
Week
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.
Well knowing
These words are used in a declaration when the plaintiff sues for an injury which is not immediate and with force, and the act or nonfea-sance complained of was not prima facie actionable, not only the injury, but the circumstances under which it was committed, ought to be stated, as where the injury was done by an animal. In such case, the plaintiff after stating the injury, continues, the defendant well knowing the mischievous propensity of his dog, permitted him to go at large. Vide Scienter.
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Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
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.
Night
That space of time during which the sun is below the horizon of the earth, except, that short space which precedes its rising and follows its setting, during which, by its light, the countenance of a man may be discerned.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
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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
Being married. Has the same meaning as "matrimony." Used mostly to refer to illegitimate children as "born out of wedlock."
Week
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.
Well knowing
These words are used in a declaration when the plaintiff sues for an injury which is not immediate and with force, and the act or nonfea-sance complained of was not prima facie actionable, not only the injury, but the circumstances under which it was committed, ought to be stated, as where the injury was done by an animal. In such case, the plaintiff after stating the injury, continues, the defendant well knowing the mischievous propensity of his dog, permitted him to go at large. Vide Scienter.
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