Virtue
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
1.
Any rightful act done in office is " by virtue" of that office; a wrongful act may be " under color " of the offioe.s ^ee Office.
2.
Moral quality; chastity; purity. See Chabacter; Chaste.
1 2 Bl. Com. 92-9.5.
2 L. violare, to use force to: vis,, force. s State D. Wells, 31 Conn. 212 (l862), Butler, J. * People V. Mc Ginty, 24 Hun, 61 (1881), cases. » Constitution, Art. IV, sec.
4. « Luther v. Borden, 17 How. 43-44 (1849), Taney, 0.:J.; E. Sr§ 687. ' State V. Williams, 32 La. An. 336 1880); State v. Blake, 39 Me. 322, 324 (1855); Commonwealth u Fogerty, 8 Gray, 490 (1857).