Black's Law Dictionary

As an abbreviation, this letter may stand for "Victoria," "volume," or "verb;" also "vide" (see) and "voce" (word.) It is also a common abbreviation of "versus," in the titles of c

A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to an interruption in the incumbency of an office. The term "vacancy" applies not only to an interregnum in an existing offi

Lat. In the civil law. Goods without an owner or in which no one claims a property; escheated goods. Inst 2, 6, 4; 1 Bl. Comm. 298.

See Possession.

See Succession.

To annul; to cancel or rescind; torender an act void; as, to vacate an entry of record or a judgment

Lat In the civil law. Exemption; Immunity; privilege; dispensation; exemption from the burden of office, Calvin.

That period of time betwcen the end of one term of court and the beginning of another. See Von Schmidt v. Widber, 99 Cal. 511, 34 Pac. 109; Conkling v. Ridgely, 112 III. 36, 1 N. E

A counsellor newly called to the bar, who is to attend for several long vacations the exercise of the house.

Lat. Let it be vacated. In practice, a rule or order by which a proceeding is vacated; a vacating.

An avoidance of an ecclesiastical benefice. Cowell.

In old English law. A dairy-house. Co. Litt. 5b.

Inoculation with vaccine or the virus of cowpox as a preventive against the smallpox; frequently made compulsory by statute. See1 Daniel v. Putnam County, 113 Ga. 570, 38 S. E. 980

Lat The vacant possession, i. e., free and unburdened possession, which (e. g.) a vendor had and has to give to a purchaser of lands.

Lat In the civil law. Empty; void; vacant; unoceupied. Calvin.

Lat In the civll law. Pledges; sureties; bail; security for the appearance of a defendant or accused person in court. Calvin.

L. Lat. In old English law. To wage or gage the duellum; to wage battel; to give pledges mutually for engaging in the trial by combat.

Lat In Roman law. Bail or security; the giving of bail for ap-pearanco in court; a recognizance. Calvin.

Lat A pledge; security by pledge, of property. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 lid Raym. 913. —Vadium mortuum. A mortgage or dead pledge; a security given by the borrower of a sum of money, by

A mortgage or dead pledge; a security given by the borrower of a sum of money, by which he grants to the lender an estate in fee, on condition that, if the money be not repaid at t

To take bail for the appearance or a person in a court of justice. Tomlins.

A species of security by which the borrower of a sum of money made over his estate to the lender until he had received that sum out of the issues and profits of the land. It was so

In old English law. The king's eldest son; hence the valet or knave follows the king and queen in a pack of cards. Bar. Obs. St. 344.

In old records, a ford or wading place. Cowell.

One that wanders abouh and has no cortain dwelling; an idle fellow. Jacob. Vagabonds are described in old English statutes as "such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and h

We call him a "vagabond" who has acquired nowhere a domicile of residence. Phillim. Dom. 23, note.

A wandering, idle person; a strolling or sturdy beggar. A general term, including, in English law, the several classes of idle and disorderly persons, rogues, and vagabonds, and in

In English law. The statute 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, which is an act for the punishment of idle and disorderly persons. 2 Chit. St 145.

In Spanish law. A promissory note. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5, § 3. See Govin v. De Miranda, 140 N. Y. 662, 35 N. E. 628.

It shall have effect as far as it can have effect. Cowp. 600; 4 Kent, Comm. 493; Shep. Touch. 87.

In old English law. A young gentleman; also a servitor or gentleman of the chamber. Cowell.

I. Lat The value or price of anything.

In old English law. The proving by the kindred of the slain, one on the father's side, and another on that of the mother, that a man was a Welshman. Wharton.

Was anciently a name denoting young gentlemen of rank and famlly, but afterwards applied in those of lower degree, and is now used for a menial servant, more particularly occupied

Of binding force, A deed, will or other instrument, which has received all the formalities required by law, is said to be valid.

This term is used to signify legal sufficiency, in contradistinction to mere regularity. "An official sale, an order, judgment or decree may be regular,—the whole practice in refer

L. Lat The value of every ecclesiastical bsnefice and preferment, according in which the first fruits and tenths are collected and paid. It ls commonly called the "king's 'books,"

Lat Value of the marriage. In feudal law, the guardian in chivalry had the right of tendering to hls ihfant ward a suitable match, without "disparagement," (inequality,) which, if

The distinction between a good and a valuable consideration is that the former consists of blood, or of natural love and affection; as when a man grants an estate to a near relatio

The act of ascertaining the worth of a thing. The estimated worth of a thing. See Lowenstein v. Schiffer, 38 App. Div. 178, 56 N. Y. Supp. 674; State v. Central Pac. R. Co., 7 Nev.

In English law. A list of all the ratable hereditaments in a parish, showing the names of the occupier, the owner, the property, the extent of the property, the gross estimated ren

The utility of an object in satisfying, directly or indirectly, the needs or desires of human beings, called by economists "value in use;" or its worth consisting in the power of p

A pollcy is called Valued," when the parties, having agrced upon the value of the interest insured, in order to save the necessity of further proof have inserted the valuation in t

A person whose business is to appraise or set a vuiue upon property.

A phrase usually employed in a bill of exchange or promissory note, to denote that a consideration has been given for it.

An obsolete title of dignity next to a peer. 2 Inst. 667 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 612.

That power is vain [idle or useless] which never comes into action, [which is never exercised.] 2 Coke, 51.

Those are to be regarded as idle fears which do not affect a steady [firm or resolute] man. 7 Coke, 27.

A frivolous fear is not a legui excuse. Dig. 50,17, 184; '2 Inst 483.

L. Lat In old records. A fore-footman. Spelman; Howell.

A Spanish-American measure of length, equal to 33 English inches or a trifle more or less, varying according to local usage, See U. St v. Perot, 98 In S. 428, 25 L. Ed. 251.

In old Scotch law. Ward; custody; guardianship. Answering to "war-da," in old English law. Spelman.

In old Scotch law. A warren. Answering to "warenna," in old English law. Spelman.

In pleading and practice. A discrepancy or disagreement between two instruments or two steps in the same cause, which ought by law to be entirely consonant Thus, lf the evidence ad

In old Scotch law. Warranty.

Lat. In the civil law. A pledge; a surety; ball or surety in a criminal proceeding or civil action. Calvin.

The operation of castration as performed by section (cutting) of the vas deferens or spermatic cord; sometimes proposed as an inhibitory punishment for rapists and other criminals.

In feudal law. A feudal tenant or grantee; a feudatory; the holder of a fief on a feudal tenure, and by the obligation of performing feudal services. The correlative term was "lord

The sinte or condition of a vassal.

The tenure or holding of a vassal. Cowell.

L. Lat A waste or common lying open to the cattle of all tenants who have a right of commoning. Cowell. —Vastum forestse vel hosci. In old records. Waste of a forest or wood. That

In old records. Waste of a forest or wood. That part of a forest or wood wherein the trees and underwood were so destroyed that it lay in a manner waste and barren. Parochi Antiq.

In old European law. Sorcery ; witchcraft; the profession of the Vau-dois.

The lands that a vavasour held. Cowell.

One who was in dignity next to a baron. Britt. 109; Bract, llb. 1, c. & One who held of a baron. Ena Brit.

An abbreviation for "vice-chancellor."

An abbreviation for "vice-chancellor's court"

An abbreviation for "venditioni exponas," (q. v.)

The tenants of the manor of Bradford, in the county of Wilts, paid a yearly rent by this name to their lord, in lleu of veal paid formerly in kind. Wharton.

In old Lombardic law. The offense of stopping one on the way; forestalling. Spelman.

In Roman law. Customs-duties ; taxes paid upon the importation or exportation of certain kinds of merchandise, Cod. 4, 61.

Lat. Fines paid to the crown to defray the expenses of maintaining courts of justice. 3 Salk. 33.

Dav. 12. Tribute, in its origin, is the patrimonial right of emperors and kings.

In maritime law. Freight

The word "vehicle" includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. Rev. St U. S. § 4 (U.

See Fehmgericht.

L. Fr. Distresses forbidden to be replevied; the refusing to let the owner have his cattle which were distrained. Kel-ham.

In mining law. A body of mineral or mineralized rock, filling a seam or fissure in the earth's crust, within defined boundaries in the general mass of the mountain, and having a ge

Viewers; persons sent by the court to take a view of any place in question, for the better decision of the right. It signifies, also, such as are sent to view those that essoin the

In old English law. A toll-booth. Cro. Jac. 122.

Lat. Is it your will and pleasure, Romans? The form of proposing a law to the Roman peo-pie. Tayl. Civil Law, 155.

He is not presumed to consent who obsys the orders of hls father or his master. Dig. 50, 17, 4.

The office of dog-leader, or courser. Cowell.

One who leads greyhounds. Blount.

Something that is bought; capable of being bought; offered for sale;, mercenary. Used in an evll sense, such purchase or sale being regarded as corrupt and lllegal.

Beasts caught in the woods by hunting.

Hunting. Cowell.

To sell; to transfer the ownership of an article to another for a price in money. The term is not commonly applled to the sale of real estate, although its derivatives "vendor" and

A purchaser or buyer; one to whom anything is sold. Generally used of the transferee of real property, one who acquires chatteis by sale being called a "buyer."

He is fraudulent who sells the same thing twice. Jenk. Cent 107.

Fit or suitable to be said; capable of transfer by sale; merchantable.

In old European law. A tax upon things sold in markets and publlc fairs. Spelman.

Lat In the civil law. In a strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the contract of sale, otherwise called "emptio venditio." Inst 3, 24. Calvin. In a large sense. Any mode or speci

Sale; the act of selling.

Lat. You expose to sale. This is the name of a writ of execution, requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied upon goods under a fieri facias, but returne

Lat A seller; a vendor. Inst. 3, 24; Bract fol. 41. —Venditor regis. In old English law. The king's seller or salesman ; the person who exposed to sale those goods and chattels whi

In old English law. The king's seller or salesman ; the person who exposed to sale those goods and chattels which were seized or distrained to answer any debt due to the king. Cowe

LatA female vendor. Co.d. 4, 51, 3.

The person who transfers property by sale, particularly real estate, "seller" being more commonly used for one who sells personalty. He is the vendor who negotiates the sale, and b

The act of 37 & 38 Vict. c. 78, which substitutes forty for sixty years as the root of title, and amends in other ways the law of vendor and purchaser. Mozley & Whitley.