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WITHDRAWAL
A voluntary removal of a claim or objection, a legal position, or a statement of defense or counterclaim by a defendant. … [Read more...] about WITHDRAWAL
WISBY, LAWS OF
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...] about WISBY, LAWS OF
WITHDRAWING A JUROR
practice. An agreement made between the parties in a suit to require one of the twelve juror's impaneled to try a cause to leave the jury box; the act of leaving the box by such a juror is also called the withdrawing a juror. 2. This arrangement usually takes place at the recommendation of the judge, when it is obviously improper the case should proceed any further. 3. The … [Read more...] about WITHDRAWING A JUROR
WISTA
Among the Saxons, this was a measure of land; it contained a half hide, or sixty acres. … [Read more...] about WISTA