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WIT

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To know; to learn; to be informed. Used only in the infinitive, to wit, which term is equivalent to "that is to say," "namely," or "videlicet." … [Read more...]

WISTA

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Among the Saxons, this was a measure of land; it contained a half hide, or sixty acres. … [Read more...]

WISBY, LAWS OF

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The name given to a code of maritime laws promulgated at Wisby, then the capital of Gothland, in Sweden, in the latter part of the thirteenth cen-tury. This compilation resembled the laws of Oleron in many respects, and was early adopted, as a system of sea laws, by the commercial nations of Northern Europe. It formed the foundation for the subsequent code of the Hanseatic … [Read more...]

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