Visa
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
The formula put upon an act; a register; a commercial book, in order to approve of it and authenticate it. VISCOUNT (Lat. vice comes). This name was made use of as an arbitrary title of honor, without any offfice pertaining to it, by Henry VI. for the first time. The sheriff or earl's deputy holds the office of vice comes, of which viscount is a translation, but used, as we have just seen, in a different sense. The dignity of a viscount is next to an earl.
1 Bl. Comm. 397.