Also known as eavesdropping, it is listening in on private telephone conversations using specialized equipment. Wire tapping requires a search warrant or court order to be legal and valid as evidence to be admissible in a court of law. … [Read more...] about WIRETAPPING
WITHER SAKE
An apostate, or perfidious renegade. Cowell. … [Read more...] about WITHER SAKE
WITHERNAM
practice. The name of a writ which issues on the return of elongata to an alias or pluries writ of replevin, by which the sheriff is commanded to take the defendant's own goods which may be found in his bailiwick, and keep them safely, not to deliver them to the plaintiff until such time as the defendant chooses to submit himself, and allow the distress, and the whole of it, to … [Read more...] about WITHERNAM
WITENAGEMOTE
"The assembly of wise men." This was the great national council or parliament of the Saxons in England, comprising the noblemen, high ecclesiastics, and other great thanes of the kingdom, advising and aiding the king in the general administration of government. … [Read more...] about WITENAGEMOTE
Wis. L. Rev.
Wisconsin Law Review … [Read more...] about Wis. L. Rev.