KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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WAY

WEIGHT

(chiefly in New England) a private way is one laid out by the local public authorities for the accommodation of individuals and wholly or chiefly at their expense, but not restricted to their exclusive use, being subject, like highways, to the public easement of passage. See Metcalf v. Bingham, 3 N. H. 459; Clark v. Boston, O. & M. R. Co., 24 N. H. 118; Denham v. Bristol County, 108 Mass. 202; Butchers', etc., Ass'n v. Boston, 139 Mass. 290, 30 N. E. 94.— Right of way. See that title. A writing in Which is set down the names of passengers who are car ried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land. Wharton. WAY-GOING CROP. A crop of grain sown by a tenant for a term certain, during his tenancy, but which will not ripen until after the expiration of his lease; to this, by custom in some places, the tenant is entitled. WAYLEAVE is a right of way over or through land for the carriage of minerals from a mine or quarry. It is an easement, being a species of the class called "rights of way," and is generally created by express grant or reservation. Sweet. WAY-BILL. WAYS AND MEANS. In a legislative body, the "committee on ways and means" is a committee appointed to inquire into and consider the methods and sources for raising revenue, and to propose means for providing the funds needed by the government. The English highway acts provide that in every parish forming part of a highway district there shall an nually be elected one or more waywardens. The waywardens so elected, and the justices for the county residing within the district, form the highway board for the • district. Each waywarden also represents his parish in regard to the levying of the highway rates, and in questions arising concerning the liability of his parish to repairs, etc. Sweet. WAYWARDENS. WAYNAGIUM. Implements of husband ry. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 5, p. 268.

tained without more or less labor, and which are objects of frequent barter and sale, is what we usually call 'wealth.'" Bowen, Pol. Econ. See Branham v. State, 96 Ga. 307, 22 S. E. 957. An instrument used in fight ing; an instrument of offensive or defen sive combat. The term is chiefly used, in law, in the statutes prohibiting the carrying of "concealed" or "deadly" weapons. See those titles. WEAR, or WEIR. A great dam or fence made across a river, or against water, formed of stakes interlaced by twigs of osier, and accommodated for the taking of fish, or to convey a stream to a mill. Cowell; Jacob. "Natural wear and tear" means deterioration or depreciation in value by ordinary and reasonable use of the subject-matter. Green v. Kelly, 20 N. J. Law, 548. WEAPON. WEAR AND TEAR. WEDBEDRIP. Sax. In old English law. A customary service which tenants paid to their lords, in cutting down their corn, or do ing other harvest duties; as if a covenant to reap for the lord at the time of his bid ding or commanding. Cowell. A period of seven consecutive days of time; and, in some uses, the period beginning with Sunday and ending with Sat urday. See Leach v. Burr, 188 U. S. 510, 23 Sup. Ct. 393, 47 L. Ed. 567; Ronkendorff v. Taylor, 4 Pet. 361, 7 L. Ed. 882; Evans v. Job, 8 Nev. 324; Bird v. Burgsteiner, 100 Ga. 486, 28 S. E. 219; Steinle v. Bell, 12 Abb. Prac. N. S. (N. Y.) 175; Russell v. Croy, 164 Mo. 69, 63 S. W. 849; Medland v. Linton, 60 Neb. 249, 82 N. W. 866. In old European law. The judicial combat, or duel; the trial by battel. In English law. A duty or toll paid for weighing merchandise. It is called "tronage" for weighing wool at the king's beam, or "pesage" for weighing other avoirdupois goods. 2 Chit Com. Law, 16. A measure of heaviness or ponderosity; and in a metaphorical sense in fluence, effectiveness, or power to influence judgment or conduct — Gross Weight. The whole weight of goods and merchandise, including the dust and dross, and also the chest or bag, etc., upon which tare and tret are allowed.— Weights of auncel, See AUNCEL WEIGHT.— Weight of Evidence. The balance or preponderance of evidence; the inclination of the greater amount of credible evi dence, offered in a trial, to support one side of the issue rather than the other. The "weight" WEEK. WEHADINC. WEIGHAGE. WEIGHT. WED. Sax. A covenant or agreement Cowell.

WEALD.

Sax. A wood; the woody part

of a country.

WEALREAF.

In old English law. The

robbing of a dead man in his grave.

WEALTH. 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. "The aggregate of all the things, whether material or immaterial, which contribute to comfort and enjoyment, which cannot be ob