Author: Dictionary Definitions

  • Worthless

    Destitude of worth, of no value or use. Spring Citv Foundry Co. v. C.I. R., 292 U.S. 182, 54 S.Ct. 644, 78 L.Ed.1200.

  • Wrongful, Wrongfully

    These words import the infringement of some right of another implying the existence of a civil redress or punishment under the Criminal Law.

  • Yeoman Of The Guard

    A body of several Yeomen whose duties include being the warders of the Tower of London and being the bodyguards of the sovereign.

  • York-Antwerp Rules

    Rules relating to general averages and adopted as a result of an international conference at Antwerp in 1877 and commonly incorporated in contracts of affreightment.

  • Year And A Day

    The phrase is used to denote the common law doctrine which would not recognize a homicide unless the death resulted within a year and a day from time of the act which was alleged to have caused thedeath. Statev. Brown, 318 A.2d257, 21 Md.App. 91.

  • Year To Year, Tenancy From

    A contract between a lessor and lessee by which the lessor grants possession and enjoyment of land or hereditaments of a demisable nature, for a period of years certain, for a consideration, usually a rent in money payable at the end of stated periods of a year or more, during the term. See […]

  • Weregild, Wergild

    In Saxon Law, this was the price paid for homicide, partly to the King for the loss of a subject and partly to the lord for the loss of a vassal and partly to the next-of-kin of the injured person. The price varied according to the degree or rank of the victim.

  • Westminster, The First Statute Of

    This statute was passed in the year 1275 for various purposes including to enforce the enactment of the Magna Carta against excessive fines, to protect the property of the Church from the King and the noblemen, to provide for free election of sheriffs, coroners, conservators without undue […]

  • Wet-field

    A wet-field or wet gas field is one where the natural gas comes to the surface and holds crude naphta in suspension.

  • Withdrawal

    Withdrawal

    In relation to conspiracies, a withdrawal requires that the offender either make a complete disclosure to authorities or communicate the abandonement of the conspiracy in a manner reasonably calculated to reach co-conspirators. See U.S. v. Mardian, (D.C.Cir.), 546 F.2d973.

  • White Slavery

    Prostitution, implying an idea of a person other than the prostitute earning money from her acts of prostitution. The White Slave Traffic Act, popularly referred to as the Mann Act, is aimed at the transportation of any woman or girl in interstate or foreign commerce. See 18 U.S.C. §2421 […]

  • Workmen’s Compensation

    The term embraces all legislation whose purpose is to compensate workmen for loss resulting from injury, disablement or death through industrial accident, casualty or disease, whether the same arises from a tortious wrong or not, and in accordance with a definite schedule based generally upon […]

  • Wire Communication

    Any communication made in whole or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of communications by the aid or wire, cable, or other like connection between the point of origin and the point of reception furnished or operated by any person engaged as a common carrier in providing […]

  • Whiplash Injury

    An injury sustained by a person by having his head thrown violently forward and back or from side to side.

  • Where

    At the place, in the case of, in the event that. Graham v Standard Fire Ins. Co., 119 S.C.218, 112. S.E. 88.