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Witness
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WitnessThe regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
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Definition
An enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Hearing
"1) Chwncery practice. The term, hearing is given to the trial of a chancery suit. 2) Criminal law. The examination of a prisoner charged with a crime or misdemeanor, and of the witnesses for the accuser.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Recital
Contracts, pleading. The repetition of some former writing, or the statement of something which has been done.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
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Witness instrumentary
Scotch law. He who has attested a deed or other writing.
Witnesses
People who may have information of a Fraud based on observation.
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Without impeachment of waste
When a tenant for life holds the land without impeachment of waste, he is of course dispunishable for waste whether wilful or otherwise. But still this right must not be wantonly abused so as to destroy the estate, and he will be enjoined from committing malicious waste
Without prejudice
A statements set onto a written document which qualifies the signatory as exempted from it's content to the extent that they may be interpreted as containing admissions or other interpretations which could later be used against the person signing; or as otherwise affecting any legal rights of the person signing. A lawyer will often send a letter "without prejudice" in case the letter makes admissions which could later prove inconvenient to the client.
Without recourse
Vide Sans Recours and Indorsement.
Without reserve
Contracts. These words are frequently used in conditions of sale at public auction, that the property offered, or to be offered for sale, will be sold without reserve.
Without this,that
Pleading. These are technical words used in a traverse, for the purpose of denying a material fact in the preceding pleadings, whether declaration, plea, replication. In Latin it is called absque hoc.
Witness
Witness instrumentary
Scotch law. He who has attested a deed or other writing.
Witnesses
People who may have information of a Fraud based on observation.
Women
Persons. In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the females of the human species; but in a more restricted sense, it means all such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Mulieris appellatione etiam virgo viri potens continetur.
Woodgeld
Old English law. To be free from the payment of money for taking of wood in any forest.
Woods
A piece of land on which forest trees in great number naturally grow.According to Lord Coke, a grant to another of omnes boscos suos, all his woods, will pass not only all his trees, but the land on which they grow
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Definition
An enumeration of the particular acts included by or under a name: as, the definition of a crime.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Hearing
"1) Chwncery practice. The term, hearing is given to the trial of a chancery suit. 2) Criminal law. The examination of a prisoner charged with a crime or misdemeanor, and of the witnesses for the accuser.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Recital
Contracts, pleading. The repetition of some former writing, or the statement of something which has been done.
Writing
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to co nvey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing ii understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed.
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Witness instrumentary
Scotch law. He who has attested a deed or other writing.
Witnesses
People who may have information of a Fraud based on observation.
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Without impeachment of waste
When a tenant for life holds the land without impeachment of waste, he is of course dispunishable for waste whether wilful or otherwise. But still this right must not be wantonly abused so as to destroy the estate, and he will be enjoined from committing malicious waste
Without prejudice
A statements set onto a written document which qualifies the signatory as exempted from it's content to the extent that they may be interpreted as containing admissions or other interpretations which could later be used against the person signing; or as otherwise affecting any legal rights of the person signing. A lawyer will often send a letter "without prejudice" in case the letter makes admissions which could later prove inconvenient to the client.
Without recourse
Vide Sans Recours and Indorsement.
Without reserve
Contracts. These words are frequently used in conditions of sale at public auction, that the property offered, or to be offered for sale, will be sold without reserve.
Without this,that
Pleading. These are technical words used in a traverse, for the purpose of denying a material fact in the preceding pleadings, whether declaration, plea, replication. In Latin it is called absque hoc.
Witness
Witness instrumentary
Scotch law. He who has attested a deed or other writing.
Witnesses
People who may have information of a Fraud based on observation.
Women
Persons. In its most enlarged sense, this word signifies all the females of the human species; but in a more restricted sense, it means all such females who have arrived at the age of puberty. Mulieris appellatione etiam virgo viri potens continetur.
Woodgeld
Old English law. To be free from the payment of money for taking of wood in any forest.
Woods
A piece of land on which forest trees in great number naturally grow.According to Lord Coke, a grant to another of omnes boscos suos, all his woods, will pass not only all his trees, but the land on which they grow
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