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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...]

WITHER SAKE

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An apostate, or perfidious renegade. Cowell. … [Read more...]

WITAM

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The purgation from an offense by the oath of the requisite number of witnesses. … [Read more...]

WITHERNAM

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practice. The name of a writ which issues on the return of elongata to an alias or pluries writ of replevin, by which the sheriff is commanded to take the defendant's own goods which may be found in his bailiwick, and keep them safely, not to deliver them to the plaintiff until such time as the defendant chooses to submit himself, and allow the distress, and the whole of it, to … [Read more...]

WITAN

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In Saxon law. Wise men; persons of information, especially in the laws; the king's advisers; members of the king's council; the optimates, or principal men of the kingdom. 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 11, note. … [Read more...]

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