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Wire-tapping
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Wire-tappingAn electronic surveillance device which secretly listens in and records conversations held over a phone line. It is usually only allowed with the permission of a judge and if it can be shown to be necessary for the solving of a serious crime.
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Surveillance
Gathering evidence through observation from outside of the operation (contrasted with Undercover). Surveillance can be Moving Surveillance, Stationary Surveillance or Electronic Surveillance. Also known as Spying or Eavesdropping.
Line
1) Measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. 2) Estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.
Permission
A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which without such authority would have been unlawful.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
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Wilfully
1) Intentionally. In charging certain offences it is required that they should be stated to be wilfully done. 2) In Pennsylvania it has been decided that the word maliciously was an equivalent for the word wilfully, in an indictment for arson.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Winchester measure
The standard measure originally kept at Winchester, in England.
Winding-up
The process by which a company dies. There are three separate procedures - a members voluntary winding up where a company is solvent, a creditors voluntary winding up for insolvent companies and a compulsory winding up by the court. Once the process starts the company is administered by a liquidator who disposes of all assets, and distributes the remainder to members or creditors. When the process is complete, the company is struck off the Companies Register and ceases to exist.
Window
An opening made in the wall of a house to admit light and air, and to enable those who are in to look out.The owner has a right to make as many windows in his house when not built on the line of his property as he may deem proper, although by so doing be may destroy the privacy of his neighbors.
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Wista
Among the Saxons, this was a measure of land; it contained a half hide, or sixty acres.
Wit
To wit. That is to say; namely; scilicet; videlicet.
With prejudice
A declaration which dismisses all rights. A judgment barring the right to bring or maintain an action on the same claim or cause.
With strong hand
Pleading. This is a technical phrase indispensable in describing a forcible entry in an indictment. No other word or circumlocution will answer the same purpose
Withdrawal
An arriving alien’s voluntary retraction of an application for admission to the United States in lieu of a removal hearing before an immigration judge or an expedited removal. Withdrawals are not included in nonimmigrant admission data.
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Surveillance
Gathering evidence through observation from outside of the operation (contrasted with Undercover). Surveillance can be Moving Surveillance, Stationary Surveillance or Electronic Surveillance. Also known as Spying or Eavesdropping.
Line
1) Measures. A line is a lineal measure containing the one twelfth part of a on inch. 2) Estates. The division between two estates. Limit; border; boudary.
Permission
A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which without such authority would have been unlawful.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
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Wilfully
1) Intentionally. In charging certain offences it is required that they should be stated to be wilfully done. 2) In Pennsylvania it has been decided that the word maliciously was an equivalent for the word wilfully, in an indictment for arson.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Winchester measure
The standard measure originally kept at Winchester, in England.
Winding-up
The process by which a company dies. There are three separate procedures - a members voluntary winding up where a company is solvent, a creditors voluntary winding up for insolvent companies and a compulsory winding up by the court. Once the process starts the company is administered by a liquidator who disposes of all assets, and distributes the remainder to members or creditors. When the process is complete, the company is struck off the Companies Register and ceases to exist.
Window
An opening made in the wall of a house to admit light and air, and to enable those who are in to look out.The owner has a right to make as many windows in his house when not built on the line of his property as he may deem proper, although by so doing be may destroy the privacy of his neighbors.
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Wista
Among the Saxons, this was a measure of land; it contained a half hide, or sixty acres.
Wit
To wit. That is to say; namely; scilicet; videlicet.
With prejudice
A declaration which dismisses all rights. A judgment barring the right to bring or maintain an action on the same claim or cause.
With strong hand
Pleading. This is a technical phrase indispensable in describing a forcible entry in an indictment. No other word or circumlocution will answer the same purpose
Withdrawal
An arriving alien’s voluntary retraction of an application for admission to the United States in lieu of a removal hearing before an immigration judge or an expedited removal. Withdrawals are not included in nonimmigrant admission data.
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