An aggravated species of assault and battery, consisting in one person giving another some dangerous hur. Causing harm or an injury to a person or a live animal. Wreccum maris significat ilia bona quae naufragio ad terram pelluntur. A wreck of the sea signifies those goods which are driven to shore from a shipwreck. … [Read more...] about WOUNDING
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WORKHOUSE
A prison where prisoners are kept in employment; a penitentiary. A house provided where the poor are taken care of, and kept in employment. … [Read more...] about WORKHOUSE
WRECK
mar. law. A wreck signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. 2. The term "wreck of the sea" includes, 1. Goods found at low water, between high and low water mark; and 2. Goods between the same limits, partly resting on the ground, … [Read more...] about WRECK
WORK-HOUSE
A place where convicts (or paupers) are confined and kept at labor. … [Read more...] about WORK-HOUSE
WRECKFREE
Exempt from the forfeiture of shipwrecked goods and vessels to the king. Cowell. … [Read more...] about WRECKFREE