Category: Definition

  • Year Books

    Definition of Year Books A series of reports of cases written in the AngloNorman language, commencing in the thirteenth century and extant either in manuscript copies or in print from 1290 to 1535 with very few gaps. It is generally agreed that they were notes of cases taken by apprentices to […]

  • Witness

    Definition of Witness A person who makes a viva voce statement to a judicial tribunal on a question of fact. Witnesses require to be sworn before their evidence is given, unless they have conscientious objections to taking an oath, or have no religious belief, in which case they make a solemn […]

  • Yeoman

    Definition of Yeoman He that hath free land of forty shillings by the year: who was anciently thereby qualified to serve on juries, vote for knights of the shire, and do any other act where the law requires (Blackstone) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

  • Witnessing Part

    Definition of Witnessing Part The testatum (q.v.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Witnessing Part in the Dictionaries, Witnessing Part in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the […]

  • Yield

    Definition of Yield To perform a service due by a tenant to his lord. See Render Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Yield in the Dictionaries, Yield in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, […]

  • Woollam V. Hearn

    Definition of Woollam V. Hearn ((1802), 7 Ves. 211). Held, that though a defendant resisting specific performance may adduce parol evidence to show that by a fraud the written agreement does not express the real terms, a plaintiff cannot do so for the purpose of obtaining specifk performance […]

  • Yonge V. Toynbee

    Definition of Yonge V. Toynbee ([1910] 1 K. B. 215). If an agent continues to act after the death or lunacy of his principal, even in ignorance of it, he is liable on a warrant of authority.A solicitor employed to conduct litigation on behalf of X accepted service of the writ, entered […]

  • Woolsack

    Definition of Woolsack The seat on which the Lord Chancellor sits m his capacity of Speaker of the House of Lords. It is not technically part of the House. When ‘the Lord Chancellor votes as a peer, he votes from the Woolsack ; but if he desires to speak as a peer, he leaves the…

  • Yorkshire Deed Registry

    Definition of Yorkshire Deed Registry A registry of deeds and wills relating to land in Yorkshire. If a deed or will is not registered it is void as against a subsequent purchaser for value, who has registered his deed. By the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 11, instruments which do not deal […]

  • Words Of Limitation

    Definition of Words Of Limitation Words in a conveyance or will which have the effect of marking out the duration of an estate.’ Thus, in a grant to A and his heirs, the words and his heirs are words of limitation. Formerly these words were essential to pass the fee simple, both in legal and…