Validity

Freedom from vices of substance; effectiveness in point of law. It is broader than "form" or "requisites," as they are often applied; "form" signifying only regularity or technical phraseology, while "requisites" imports only positive requirements or essentials, and not matters extraneous to the act or instrument itself. VALOR BENEFICIORUM (Lat.) In ecclesiastical law. The value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first fruits and tenths are collected and paid. The valuation by which the clergy are at present rated was made 26 Hen. VIII., and is commonly called the "King's Books." 1 Bl. Comm. 284*, note 6. VALOR MARITAGII (Lat.) The amount marriage without disparagement, which she refused. It was so much as a jury would assess, or as any one would give bona fide, for the value of the marriage.

Litt. 110.

A writ which lay against the ward, on coming of full age, for that he was not married by his guardian, for the value of the marriage, and this, though no convenient marriage had been offered. Termes de la Ley.