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A common vehicle for the transportation of goods, wares, and merchan-dlse of all descriptions. The term does not include a hackney-coach. Quigley […]

In feudal and old English law. Timber for wagons or carts Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A wager is a contract by which two or more parties agree that a certain snm of money or other thing shall […]

The compensation agreed upon by a master to be paid to a servant, or any other person hired to do work or […]

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 […]

In old English practice. To give security for the • performance of a thing. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. A creditor to whom a wadset is made, corresponding to a mortgagee Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Conductors of vessels at sea. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

L. Fr. A vagabond, or vagrant Britt, c. 29 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Scotch law. The old term for a mortgage. A right by which lands or other heritable subjects are impignorated by the […]

Lat in the civil law. Spurious children; bastards Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat in the civil law. Spurious children; literally, gotten from the people; the offspring.of promiscuous cohabitation, wbo are considered as having no […]

Seaweed. It is used in great quantities by the inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey for manure, and also for fuel by the […]

Lat in old English law. Common purgation; a name given to the trial by ordeal, to distinguish it from the canonical purgation, […]

In Scotch practice. An emphatic or essential word. 2 Aiis. Crim. Pr. 280 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In maritime law. The pass-ing of a vessel by sea from one place, port, or country to another. The term is held […]

In common recoveries, the person who is called to warrant or defend the title is called the “vouchee.” 2 Bouv. Inst, no. […]

A receipt, acquittance, or release, which may serve as evidence of payment or discharge of a debt, or to certify the correctness […]

Lat. A vow or promise. Dies votorum, the wedding day. Fleta 1. 1, c. 4 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To call upon; to call in to war-ranty; to call upon the grantor or warrantor to defend the title to au estate […]

one who has the right of glv-ing hls voice or suffrage Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In conveyancing, one Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Suffrage; the expression of his will, preference, or choice, formally manir fested by a member of a legislative or delib-erative body, or […]

Free; without compulsion or solicitation Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)