Variance

In pleading and practice. A disagreement or difference^ between two parts of the same legal proceeding which ought to agree together. Variances are between the writ and the declaration, and between the declaration, or bill in equity, and the evidence. VARRANTIZATIO (Law Lat.) In old Scotch law.

Warranty. Craig, de Jur. Feud. 152.

VAS (Lat.) In the civil law. A pledge; a surety; one who became bail or surety for another in a criminal proceeding or civil action. Calv. Lex. The plural, vades (q. v.), was more commonly used. VASALLUS (Law Lat.) In feudal law. A vassal; the grantee of a fief; a feudatory. Feud. lib.

1, tit. 26; Id. lib. 2, tit. 2 et passim.

Skene writes the word vassdttus. VASLETTUS (Law Lat.) A valet or ward. Cowell; Spelman.