Valvasors
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or VIDAMES. An obsolete title of dignity next to a peer.
2 Inst. 667; 2 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 612.
VANA EST ILLA POTENTIA QUAE nunquam venit in actum. Vain is that power which is never brought into action.
2 Coke, 51.