A common vehicle for the transportation of goods, wares, and merchan-dlse of all descriptions. The term does not include a hackney-coach. Quigley v. Gorham, 5 Cat 418, 63 Am. Dec. 139
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In feudal and old English law. Timber for wagons or carts
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A wager is a contract by which two or more parties agree that a certain snm of money or other thing shall be paid or de-livered to one of them on the happening of an uncertain event or upon the ascertainment of a fact wbich is in dispute between them. Trust Co. v. Goodrich, 75 111. 560; Jordan v. Kent, 44 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 207; winward v. Lincoln, 23 R. I. 476, 51 Atl. 106, 64 L. R. A. 160; Edson v. Pawlet, 22 VL 293; w’oodcock v. McQueen, 11 Ind. 15
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The compensation agreed upon by a master to be paid to a servant, or any other person hired to do work or business for him
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In old Engllsh law. A weigh; a measure of cheese, salt, wool, etc., contain-lng two hundred and fifty-six pounds avoir-dnpois. CoweU; Spelman
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In old English practice. To give security for the • performance of a thing. Cowell
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In Scotch law. A creditor to whom a wadset is made, corresponding to a mortgagee
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In Scotch law. The old term for a mortgage. A right by which lands or other heritable subjects are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt, wadsets are usually drawn in the form of mutual contracts, in which one par-ty sells the land, and the other grants the rlght of reversion. Ersk. InsL 2, 8, 3
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Lat in the civil law. Spurious children; bastards
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Lat in the civil law. Spurious children; literally, gotten from the people; the offspring.of promiscuous cohabitation, wbo are considered as having no father. Inst. 3, 4, 3; Id. 3, 5, 4
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Seaweed. It is used in great quantities by the inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey for manure, and also for fuel by the poorer classes
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Lat in old English law. Common purgation; a name given to the trial by ordeal, to distinguish it from the canonical purgation, which was by the oath of the party. 4 Bl. Comm. 342
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In Scotch practice. An emphatic or essential word. 2 Aiis. Crim. Pr. 280
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In maritime law. The pass-ing of a vessel by sea from one place, port, or country to another. The term is held to Include the enterprise entered upon, and not merely the route. Friend v. Insurance Co., 113 Mass. 326
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In common recoveries, the person who is called to warrant or defend the title is called the “vouchee.” 2 Bouv. Inst, no. 2093
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A receipt, acquittance, or release, which may serve as evidence of payment or discharge of a debt, or to certify the correctness of accounts. An account-book containing the acquittances or receipts showing the accountant’s discharge of his obligations, whitwell v. willard, 1 Metc. (Mass.) 218
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Lat. A vow or promise. Dies votorum, the wedding day. Fleta 1. 1, c. 4
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To call upon; to call in to war-ranty; to call upon the grantor or warrantor to defend the title to au estate
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one who has the right of glv-ing hls voice or suffrage
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Suffrage; the expression of his will, preference, or choice, formally manir fested by a member of a legislative or delib-erative body, or of a constituency or a .body of qualified electors, in regard to the deci-slon to be made by the body as a whole upon any proposed measure or proceeding, or the selection of an ofiicer or representative. And the aggregate of the expressions of will or choice, thus manifested by individuals, is called the “vote of the body.” See Maynard
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