KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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WOODWARDS

WORT

trees. The old books say that a grant of "all his woods" (omnes ioscos suos) will pass the land, as well as the trees growing upon it CO. Litt 46. See Averitt v. Murrell, 49 N. C. 323; Hall v. Cranford, 50 N. 0. 3; Achenbach v. Johnston, 84 N. C. 264. WOODWARDS. Officers of the forest, whose duty consists in looking after the wood and vert and venison, and preventing of fenses relating to the same. Manw. 189. WOOL-SACK. The seat of the lord chan cellor of England in the house of lords, be ing a large square bag of wool, without back or arms, covered with red cloth. Webster; Brande. WOOL SORTERS' DISEASE. In med ical jurisprudence. A popular name for ma lignant anthrax, a disease characterized by malignant pustules or carbuncles, caused by infection by putrid animal matter containing the bacillus anthracis, and chiefly prevalent among persons whose business is to handle wool and hides, such as tanners, butchers, and herdsmen. See Bacon v. United States Mut. Ace. Ass'n, 123 N. Y. 304, 25 N. E. 399, 9 L E. A. 617, 20 Am. St Rep. 748. WORDS. As used in law, this word gen erally signifies the technical terms and phrases appropriate to particular instruments, or aptly fitted to the expression of a par ticular intention in legal instruments. See the subtitles following. —Words of art. The vocabulary or termin ology of a particular art or science, and es pecially those expressions which are idiomatic or peculiar to it. See Cargill v. Thompson, 57 Minn. 534, 59 N. W. 638.— Words of limita tion.. See LIMITATION.— Words of procrea tion. To create an estate tail by deed, it is necessary that words of procreation should be used in order to confine the estate to the de scendants of the first grantee, as in the usual form of limitation,—"to A. and the heirs of his body." Sweet— Words of purchase. See PUECHASE. WORK AND LABOR. The name of one of the common counts in actions of assump sit, being for work and labor done and ma terials' furnished by the plaintiff for the de fendant. WORK-BEAST, or WORK-HORSE. These terms mean an animal of the horse kind, which can be rendered fit for service, as well as one of maturer age and in actual use. Winfrey v. Zimmerman, 8 Bush (Ky.) 587. 'WORK-HOUSE. A place where con victs (or paupers) are confined and kept at labor. WORKINO DATS. In settling lay-days, or days of demurrage, sometimes the con tract specifies "working days;" in the compu tation, Sundays and custom-house holidays are excluded. 1 Bell, Comm. 577.

WORKMAN. One who labors; one who is employed to do business for another. WORKS. This term means sometimes a mill, factory, or other establishment for per forming industrial labor of any sort (South St. Joseph Land Co. v. Pitt, 114 Mo. 135, 21 S. W. 449,) and sometimes a building, struc ture, or erection of any kind upon land, as in the civil-law phrase "new works." —New works. A term of the civil law com prehending, every sort of edifice or other struc ture which is newly commenced on a given es tate or lot. Its importance lies chiefly in the fact that a remedy is given ("denunciation of new works") to an adjacent, proprietor whose property would be injured or subjected to a more onerous servitude if such a work were al lowed to proceed to completion.— Public works. Works, whether of construction or adaptation, undertaken and carried out by the national, state, or municipal authorities, and de signed to subserve some purpose of public nec essity, use, or convenience; such as public build ings, roads, aqueducts, parks, etc. See Ellis v. Common Council, 123 Mich. 567, 82 N. W. 244; Winters v. Duluth, 82 Minn. 127, 84 N. W. 788. WORLD. This term sometimes denotes all persons whatsoever who may have, claim, or acquire an interest in the subject-matter; as in saying that a judgment in rem binds "all the world." WORSHIP. The act of offering honor and adoration to the Divine Being. Reli gious exercises participated in by a number of persons assembled for that purpose, the disturbance of which is a statutory offense in many states. See Hamsher v. Hamsher, 132 111. 273, 22 N. E. 1123, 8 L. R. A. 556; State v. District Board, 76 Wis. 177, 44 N. W. 967, 7 L. R. A. 330, 20 Am. St Rep. 41; State v. Buswell, 40 Neb. 158, 58 N. W. 728, 24 L. R. A. 68. In English, law. A title of honor or dig nity used in addresses to certain magistrates and other persons of rank or office. —Public worship. This term may mean the worship of God, conducted and observed un der public authority; or it may mean worship in an open or public place, without privacy or concealment; or it may mean the performance of religious exercises, under a provision for an equal right in the whole public to participate in its benefits; or it may be used in contradis tinction to worship in the family or the closet. In this country, what is called "public wor ship" is commonly conducted by voluntary so cieties, constituted according to their own no tions of ecclesiastical authority and ritual pro priety, opening their places of worship, and ad mitting to their religious services such persons, and upon such terms, and subject to such reg ulations, as they may choose to designate and establish. A church absolutely belonging to the public, and in which all persons without restric tion have equal rights, such as the public enjoy in highways or public landings, is certainly a very rare institution. Attorney General v. Mer rimack Mfg. Co., 14 Gray (Mass.) 586.

WORT, or WORTH. A curtilage or country farm.