"Wista" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
In Saxon law. Half a hide of land, or sixty acres
The darkest clouds precipitate the most rain.
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An old lady saw a little boy with a fishing-rod over his shoulder and a jar of tadpoles in his hand walking through the park one Sunday. "Little boy," she called, "don't you know you shouldn't go fishing on a Sunday?" "I'm not going fishing, ma'am," he called back, "I'm going home."
To farm. Derived from an old Saxon word denoting rent Ad flrmam noctis was a fine or penalty equal in …
Read the complete definitionA diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A guest at an lnn, who, haviug stayed there for three nlghts, was then accounted one of …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. Free from penalty, not subject to the payment of gild, or weregild; that Is, the customary fine …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. An observer or informer
Read the complete definitionIn old European law. A kind of oath among the Bavarians. Spelman. In Saxon law. one bound by oath, q. …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. Alms-fee; nlins-money. otherwise called "Peterpence.” Cowell
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. The single value of a man or other thing; a single were-gild; the compensation of a thing …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.
Read the complete definitionA Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from …
Read the complete definitionThe language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.
Read the complete definitionThe Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.
Read the complete definitionOne of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in …
Read the complete definitionThe Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
Read the complete definitionA characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
Read the complete definitionThe quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. The rate flx-ed by law at which certain injuries to.per-son or property were to be paid for; …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A preliminary or preparatory oath, (called also “pr#juramentum,” and “juramcntum calumni#,”) which both the accuser and ac-cused …
Read the complete definitionA collection of Sax-on laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, iu the Saxon language, with a* Latin version …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A penalty for a wrong done by oue iu the king’s lattice. The offender was to replace …
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