To reduce in value or to lower a price. … [Read more...] about WRITE DOWN
WRITER TO THE SIGNET
In Scotch law. An officer nearly corresponding to an attorney at law, in English and American practice. "Writers to the signet" called also "clerks to the signet" derive their name from the circumstance that they were anciently clerks in the office of the secretary of state, by whom writs were prepared and issued under the royal signet or seal; and when the signet became … [Read more...] about WRITER TO THE SIGNET
WRITING
The act of forming by the hand letters or characters of a particular kind on paper or other suitable substance, and artfully putting them together so as to convey ideas. It differs from printing, which is the formation of words on paper or other proper substance by means of a stamp. Sometimes by writing and understood printing, and sometimes printing and writing mixed. 2. Many … [Read more...] about WRITING
WRITING OBLIGATORY
A bond; an agreement reduced to writing, by which the party becomes bound to perform something, or suffer it to be done. … [Read more...] about WRITING OBLIGATORY
WRIT PRO RETORNO HABENDO
remedies, practice. The name of a writ which re-cites that the defendant was summoned to appear to answer the plaintiff in a plea whereof he took the cattle of the said plaintiff, specifying them, and that the said plaintiff afterwards made default, wherefore it was then considered that the said plaintiff and his pledges of prosecuting should be in mercy and that the said … [Read more...] about WRIT PRO RETORNO HABENDO