The English highway acts provide that in every parish forming part of a highway district there shall annually be elected one or more waywardens. The waywardens so elected, and the justices for the county residing within the district form the highway board for the district. Each waywarden also represents his parish in regard to the levying of the highway rates, and in questions … [Read more...] about WAYWARDENS
WBIT OF ERROR
A writ issued from a court of appellate jurisdiction, directed to the judge or judges of a court of record, requiring them to remit to the appellate court the record of an action before them, in which a final judgment has been entered, in order that examination may be made of certain errors alleged to have been committed, and that the judgment may be reversed, corrected, or … [Read more...] about WBIT OF ERROR
WAYNAGIUM
Implements of husbandry. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 5, p. 268. … [Read more...] about WAYNAGIUM
WAY BILL
contracts. A writing in which is set down the names of passengers, who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land; when the goods are carried by water, the instrument is called a bill of lading. … [Read more...] about WAY BILL
WAY GOING CROP
In Pennsylvania, by the custom of the, country, a tenant for a term certain is entitled after the expiration of his lease, to enter and take away the crop of grain which he had put into the ground the preceding fall. This is called the way going crop. … [Read more...] about WAY GOING CROP