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Vicarage

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In ecclesiastical law

The living out benefice of a vicar, usually consisting of the small tithes.

1 Bum, Ecc. Law, 75, 79. Max. 88; Broom, Leg. Max. (8d London Ed.) 758; 2 Bonv. Inst, note 1300,.

VICE (Lat.; ablative of vicis, place). In the place or stead. Vice mea, in my place. Used in the composition of words denoting a delegated or depnted authority. A term used in the civil law and in Louisiana, by which is meant a defect in a thing; an imperfection. For example, epilepsy in a slave, roaring and crib biting in a horse, are vices. Rfedhibitory vices are those for which the seller will be compelled to annul a sale and take back the thing sold.

Poth. Vente, 203; Civ. Code La. arts. 2498-2507.