In forest law. The old name of the court of attachments; otherwise called the "Forty-Days Court" Cowell; 3 Bl. Comm. 71. … [Read more...]
WORK ORDER
1. Contracting. Customer order allowing contractor to proceed with no more instructions needed. 2. Manufacturing. Authorization from within the firm to incur the costs to design develop and produce a product. … [Read more...]
WOODS
A forest; land covered with a large and thick collection of natural forest trees. The old books say that a grant of "all his woods'" (omnes boscos suos) will pass the land, as well as the trees growing upon It Co. Litt 4b. See Averitt v. Murrell, 49 N. C. 323; Hall v. Cranford, 60 N. C. 3; Achenbach Johnston, 84 N. C. 204. … [Read more...]
WORK PERMIT
A permit allowing a person to work, typically immigration law; see Employment Authorization Document. … [Read more...]
WITHOUT THIS or WITHOUT THAT
pleading. These are technical words used in a traverse, for the purpose of denying a material fact in the preceding pleadings, whether declaration, plea, replication In Latin it is called absque hoc. … [Read more...]