Black's Law Dictionary

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.

A lien for purchase money remnining unpnid, allowed in equity to the vendor of land, when the statement of receipt of the price in the deed is not in accordance with the fact. Also

A sale; generally a sale at publlc auction; and more particularly a sale so made under authority of law, as by a constable, sheriff, tax collector, administrator, etc,

An auctioneer.

A kneeling or low prostration on the ground by penitents; pardon.

3 Inst. 236. Faellity of pardon is an incentive to crime.

Lat To come; to appear in court. This word is sometimes used as the name of the writ for summoning a jury, more commonly called a "venire facias."

Lat. In practice. A judicial writ, directed to the sheriff of the county in which a cause is to be tried, commanding him that he "cause to come" before the court, on a certain day

A writ to summon a person, against whom an indictment for a misdemeanor has been found, to ap-risar and be arraigned for the offense. A justice's warrant is now more commonly used.

A fresh or new venire, which the court grants when there bas been some impropriety or irregularity in refurning the jury, or where the veniict is so imperfect or ambiguous that no

a judicial writ directed to the sheriff, when issue was joined in an action, commanding him to cause to come to Westminster, on such a day, twelve free and lawful men of his county

A writ to summon a jury of matrons to execute the writ de ventre inspiciendo.

A member of a panel of Jurors; a juror summoned by a writ of venire facias.

Ll Lat. In old pleading. Comes and defends. The proper words of appearance and defense in an action. 1 Ld. Raym. 117.

Lat. In old pleading. Comes and says. 2 Salk. 544.

A privilege granted by a prince or sovereign, in virtue of which a persen is entitled to act, sui furis, as if he were of full age. Story, Confl. Laws, § 74

In French law. Sale; contract of sale. —Vente h remere. A conditional sale, in which the seller reserves the right to redeem or repurchase at the same price.

A conditional sale, in which the seller reserves the right to redeem or repurchase at the same price.

The belly or womb. The term is used in law as designating the maternal parentage of children. Thus, where in ordinary phraseology we should say that A. was B.'s child by his first

In old English law. A writ that lay for an heir presumptive, to cause an examination to be made of the widow in order to determine whether she were pregnant or not, in cases where

In pleading and practice. A neighborhood; the neighborhood, place or county in which an injury is declared to have been done or fact declared to have happened. 3 Bl. Comm. 294. Ven

L. Fr. True. An old form of oral. Thus, veray or true, tenant, is one who holds in fee-simple; veray tenant by the manner, is the same as tenant by the manner, (q. v.,) with this d

Lat. (Plural of verbum.) Words. —Verba cancellarim. Words of the chancery. The technical style of writs framed in the office of chancery. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 10, § 3. —Verba precaria

6 Coke, 62. Words are to be understood with reference to the subject-matter. —Verba sequivoca, ae in dnbio sensu posita, intelliguutur digniori ct potem tiori sensn. Equivocal word

Terms of art should be explained from the art. 2 Kent, Comm. 556, note.

Words of the chancery. The technical style of writs framed in the office of chancery. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 10, § 3.

The words of charters are to be received more strongly against the grantor. Co. Litt. 36; Broom, Max. 594.

Bac. Max. 3. Words ought to be used se as to give them their effect.

Dav. 20. The words "current money" designate current at the time of payment — Verba debent intelligi cum effectu, ut res magis valeat quam pereat. Words ought to be understood with

Words ought to be understood so as to have some operation. 8 Coke, 94n. — Verba dicta de persona intelHgi debent de conditione personae. Words spoken of a person are to be understo

Words are to be token most strongly against him who uses them. Baa Max. 11, reg. 3.

3 Inst. 76. General words are to be generally understood. — Verba generalia restringuntur ad habilitatem rei vel aptitudinem personae.General words must be narrowed either to the n

Words referred to are to be considered as if incorporated. Broom, Max. 074, 677; 11 Mees. & W. 183. — Verba in differenti materia per prius, non per posterius, intelligenda snnt. W

Parol; by word of mouth; oral; as, verbal agreement, verbal evidence; or written, but not signed or not executed with the formalities required for a deed or prescribed by statute i

A memorandum or note, in diplomacy, not signed, sent when an affnir has continued a long time without any reply, in order to avoid the appearance of an urgency which perhaps is not

In Louisiana. Proc4t verbal, (q. v.)

It is Letter that words should have no operation at all than [that they should operate] absurdly. A maxim of the civll law. Calvin. — Verba non tam intuenda, quam cansa et natura r

In the civil law. Precatory words; words of trust or used to create a trust. —Verba accipienda snnt cum effectu, ut sortiantur effectum. Words are to be received with effect, so th