Category: Definition
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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…
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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 […]
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Witchcraft
Definition of Witchcraft A capital offence : abolished by the Witchcraft Act, 1735 Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Witchcraft in the Dictionaries, Witchcraft in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia […]
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Wite
Definition of Wite A penalty for murder, etc. (Anglo-Saxon.) See Blodwyte Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Wite in the Dictionaries, Wite in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the […]
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Witenagemot
Definition of Witenagemot The mote or meeting of the wise men. In AngloSaxon times it was the great council, consisting of bishops, abbots, ealdermen and other notables, which was associated with the King in the government of the country. See Great Council Browse You might be interested in […]
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Withdrawal Of A Juror
Definition of Withdrawal Of A Juror At the trial of an action, when neither party wishes to proceed further, they may, by consent, withdraw a juror ; and as that leaves the jury incomplete, there can be no verdict, and the trial comes to an end Browse You might be interested in these […]