Latin meaning The will is taken for the deed. … [Read more...]

Latin, meaning In offences the intent and not the result is looked at. … [Read more...]

Latin: Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feeling or impulse which prompts the commission of an act; but in old English law the term was often used to denote a will, that is, the last will and testament of a decedent, more properly called testamentum. Voluntas donatoris in charta doni sui manifesto ezpressa observetur. Co. Litt 21. The will of the … [Read more...]

A witness willing to testify in court without the need for a subpoena compelling the witness to appear. … [Read more...]

That which is either active or willful, in contradistinction to that which arises from mere negligence, which is called permissive waste. … [Read more...]