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WELFARE

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Financial payments made to poor people in need of public assistance for basic necessities. … [Read more...]

WATERMARK

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A semitransparent mark that is placed on a paper that certifies the authenticity of a document. … [Read more...]

WEALREAF

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In old English law. The robbing of a dead man in his grave. … [Read more...]

WATER-MARK

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A mark indicating the highest point to which water, rises, or the lowest point to which it sinks. High-water mark. This term is properly applicable only to tidal waters, and designates the line on the shore reached by the water at the high or flood tide. But it is sometimes also used with reference to the waters of artificial ponds or lakes, treated by dams in un-navigaole … [Read more...]

WEALTH

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All material objects capable of satisfying human wants desires or tastes having a value in exchange and upon which human labor has been expended; i.e.which have by such labor been either reclaimed from nature extracted or gathered from the earth or sea manufactured from raw materials improved adapted or cultivated. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition All material … [Read more...]

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