In old English law . A kind of trial, as appears from Bract lib. 4, tract 3, ca. 18, and tract 4, ca. 2, where it seems to mean, one […]

An engine of correction for .common scolds, which in the Saxon language is said to signify the scolding-stool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking-stool , because the judgment […]

the name given when a man’s wife has been or is unfaithful to him.

A term of French maritime law . See A CUEILLETTK.

(To whom before divorce.) A writ for a woman divorced from her husband to recover her lands and tenements which she had in fee- simple or in tail, or for […]

For whose good; for whose use or benefit “Cui bono is ever of great weight in all agreements.” Parker, C. J., 10 Mod. 135. Sometimes translated, for what good, for […]

(To whom in life.) A writ of entry for a widow against him to whom her husband aliened her lands or tenements in his life-time; which must contain in it […]

He who has the right of giving has also the right of selling and granting. Dig. 50, 17, 163.

He who is allowed to do the greater ought not to be prohibited from doing the less. He who has authority to do the more important act ought not to […]

He to whom the people is father has not a father. Co. Litt. 123.

Any person skilled in his peculiar art or profession is to be believed, [i. e., when he speaks of matters connected with such art.] Co. Litt 125a; Shelf. Mar. & […]

Any one may waive or renounce tlie benefit of a principle or rule of law that exists only for bis protectiou.

Every one is to be believed in his own art. Dickinson v. Barber, 9 Mass. 227, 6 Am. Dec. 58.

Whose is the advantage, his also should be the disadvantage.

Wing. Max. 53. Whose it is to give, his it is to dispose; or, as Broom says, “the bestower of a gift has a right to regulate Its disposal.” Broom, […]

Whichever [of two parties] has the division, [of an estate,] the choice [of the shares] is the other’s. Co. Litt. 1006. In partition between coparceners , where the division is […]

The risk lies upon the owner of the subject. Tray. Lat. Max. 114.

Whose right it is to institute, his right it Is to abrogate. Broom, Max. 878, note.

Whose is the soil, his it is up to the sky. Co. Litt. 4a. He who owns the soil, or surface of the ground, owns, or has an exclusive right […]

To whomsoever the soil belongs, he owns also to the sky and to the depths. The owner of a piece of land owns everything above and below it to an […]

2 Inst. 493. An accessory matter is subject to the same jurisdiction as its principal.

He who gives a thing by mistake has a right to recover it back; but, if he gives designedly, it is a gift Dig. 50, 17, 53.

The chiefest part of everything is the beginning. Dig. 1, 2, 1; 10 Coke, 49a.

(Fr. the bottom of a sack.) A blind alley; a street which is open at one end only. Bartlett v. Bangor, 07 Me. 407; Perrin v. Railroad Co., 40 Barb. […]

In old records. The laying up a ship in a dock, in order to be repaired. Cowell; Blount