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Weapon

explosives, firearms, hooks, knives, nets, poison, snares and traps and any instrument or apparatus capable of anaesthetizing, decoying, destroying, injuring or killing an animal. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(35)

Verba Income-tax Act sunt intelligenda ut res magis valeat quam pereat

valeat quam pereat. Bacon.-(Words are to be so understood as that the subject-matter may be rather preserved than destroyed.)

Vastum forest' vel bosci

Vastum forest' vel bosci, that part of a forest or wood wherein the trees and underwood were so destroyed that it lay, in a manner, waste, Parpch. Antiq. 351.

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Vagrants

prescribed by the guardians of the parish or union, if suited to his age and strength, or wilfully destroying or injuring his clothes, or damaging property of the guardians. (7) Every woman neglecting to maintain her bastard

Tinkermen

Tinkermen, fishermen who destroyed the young fry in the river Thames by nets and unlawful engines.

Tenure

his land, were it much or little. At last these military tenures, together with all their grievances, were destroyed at the Restoration. The statute 12 Car. 2, c. 24, enacted that the Court of award and liveries,

Subjugation

Subjugation, Subjugation puts an end to the State of war and destroys the source of authority of the existing Government. In subjugation, which is recognised as one of the modes

Special pleading

of pleading. It is a forensic invention, due to the dialectic genius of the Middle Ages, but nearly destroyed by modern innovation. See Steph. On Plead.; Bullen and Leake's Prec. of Pleadings; and Chitty's Precedents. See PLEADING.

Sessions of the peace

one person. (17) Stealing or injuring records or documents belonging to any court of law. (18) Stealing or destroying, or concealing, wills or documents containing evidence of title to real estate. (19) Offences against s. 9 of

Sarkellus

Sarkellus, an unlawful net or engine for destroying fish.

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