A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. L It is vacated; a rule or an order by which a proceeding is vacated.

Z. In the civil law., Empty; unoccupied.

I In the civil law. To give, or put in bail; to hold to bail

I. In the civil law. Pledges; sureties; bail; security for appearance in court

I. I. In old English law. To gage; to wage; to give security. Vadiare duellum: to wage the duellum; to wage battel; to give pledges mutually for engaging in the trial by combat Vad

I In the Roman law. Bail or security; the giving of bail for appearance in court

I I. In old English law. Gage; security to do some act; security by pledge of property. Wages, salary or other reward of service. Vadium mortuum: a dead gage or pledge; a mortgage;

I. I. In old English law. Wager. Vadiatio duelli: wager of battel. Vadiatio legis: wager of law.

To avoid; to make void; to annul; to leave empty or unoccupied.

Vagabundus, Lat. A wandering person; one who habitually goes about from place to place without settled residence or domicil. Vagabundum nuncupamus eum qui nullibi domicilium contra

A wandering, idle person; a vagabond. Vagrant act: the English statute- 5 Geo.'lV., c. 83.

vaillaunce, I. fr. "Value.

I. fr. To be worth; to be of the value.

I. fr. v. Valeat quantum, eta

/. It shall have effect as far as it cau have effect v. Cum quod, etc.; Quando res, etc.

I. I. In old English law. Value; worth, v. Ad valentiam.

?. To be strong; to have force, or validity; to be effectual or operative.

valect, vadelect. In old English law. A servitor or gentleman of the privy chamber; a name anciently given to young gentlemen of great descent or quality, later to those of the ran

Of value; having value. Valuable consideration: a consideration which the law regards as an equivalent, as money, goods, lands, services or marriage.

The price which a thing will command in the market. The current value is the common market value, and the market value is the price fixed by public sales, or sales made in the ordi

A policy of insurance expressing the value which has been s St on the property insured, in the nature of liquidated damages.

Valvassor, vavasor, vavassor, l. Lat. In feudal and old English law. A principal vassal who held of those who held of the king; a vassal of the second degree or rank, sometimes one

qui non cadunt in constantem viruin, I. Those are to be regarded as idle fears which do not affect a steady [firm or resolute] man. In the civil law. Yani tiinoris justa excusatio

I. I In old Scots law. Ward; custqdy; guardianship.

A discrepancy between the statement of the cause of action in the writ and the statement in the declaration; a discrepancy between an averment in pleading and the evidence adduced

I. I. In old Scots law. Warranty.

I. In the civil law. A pledge; a surety; one who became bail or surety for another.

Vasallns, 1. 1. In feudal law. A grantee of a fief, feud or fee; a feudatory. tenant who holds of

valrasor, I. I., Vavasour, I fr. In sal or tenant of a baron; one who held under also tenants under him; one who in dignity

In old English law. The fee of a

I. In the civil law. A custom or or exported; a tax or tribute of any kind, state.

I. I. Maritime freight

veez, I. fr. Distresses forbidden to be

In English law. Officers who carry white wands before the justices of either bench.

A zone or belt of mineral or mineral-bearing aries which clearly separate it from the adjacent

I. fr. In old English law. Viewers; court to take view of a place.

I. As; or; when; whether.

I. I. In old English law. A toll-booth. Velitis jnbeatis qnirites J I. In the Roman pleasure, Romans? The form in which a people.

I. In old English law. Animals of hunting, as hares, partridges, etc.

I. I. In old English law. The chase; The service of a vassal or feudatory; a feudal common lying open to the of commouing. Vastuni; that part of a forest were so destroyed that Vau

vendre, Z. /r. In old English law. To sell; to vend. Vendii: sold.

I. In the civil law. To sell: to vend.

I. In the civil and old English law. To claim a thing as one's own; to take a thing as one's own.

I. In old English law. A claim.

I. In the civil law. la a strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the conti-act of sale, in a large sense, any mode of alienation; any contract by which an alienation may be effect

1. 1. Expose yod to sale; a judicial writ commanding a sheriff to sell goods taken under an execution.

I. In civil and old English law. A seller; a vendor. In old English law. Venditor reg'is: the king's seller or salesman; the person who exposed to sale goods, etc., seized to answe

A seller: the person by whom a sale is made, particularly a sale of realty. Vendor's lien: an equitable lien on land sold, which the vendor has for the purchase-money: a lien which

A public sale by outcry; an auction.

I. 1. In old English law. A narrow way or passage; a lane.

Z. fr. In old English law. Deer; animals of the chase.

I. Pardon; forgiveness; indulgence. Venise facllitas incentivnm est delinquendi: facility of pardon is an incentive to crime. In the civil law. Favor; privilege. Venia aetatis: the

I. fr. In old English law. Vengeance; an avenging.

I. To come, to appear, — the name of a writ by wjiich a jury is summoned. Venire facias: cause you to come; a judicial writ, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to cause twelve

veneson, I fr. and eng. In English law. Animals of the chase, particularly deer.

fr. In old English law. Sale,

I. The womb. v. Ad ventram, etc.; De ventre, etc.; In or en ventre, etc. In the civil and old English law. A pregnant woman; a wife; an unborn child, v. Partus, etc.

visne, I. fr. and eng. A neighborhood; the neighborhood, place or county in which an injury is declared to have been done, or to have happened; hence the county in which the action

verrai, verrey, very, I. fr. In old English law. True.

I. Words. Verba accipienda sunt: words are to be taken: — secnndum subjectam materiam: words are to be taken according to the subject-matter; — nt sortientnr effectum: words are to

In the civil law. Contracts in which a solemn form of words was required to perfect the obligation. Mainly of two kinds, — stipulation and Jidejussion.

I. In old English law. Blows; beatings.

I In the civil law. To beat, so as to cause pain.

I. A word; an expression; a clause.

I. The order of words; the orderly arrangement of words.

In forest law, an ofi Bcer of the forest, whose duty it is to look to the vert.

Literally, a saying or declaration of the truth; in practice, the finding of a jury as to the truth of matters of fact submitted to them for trial. A verdict is either general or s

vereduist, I. fr., Teredictum, I. I. In old English law. Verdict; a declaration by a jury of the truth of a matter in issua

I. I. In Scots law. Verging towards poverty.

Literally, a making out to be true; the proving of sm assertion to be true; a formula with which all affirmative pleadings not concluding to the country, are required to conclude.

To make out to be true; to prove.

Truth; verity. Veritas a quocunque dicitur, a Deo est: truth, by whomsoever it is spoken, is of God. Veritas habenda est in juratore, justicia et judicium in judice: truth must be

I In old pleading, to make out or prove to be true; to verify.

I. fr., Versus, I. I Against

I. In the civil law. To be employed; to be continually engaged; to be conversant. Versari in Incro: to be in gain; to be a gainer. Versari male in tutela: to misconduct one's self

In forest law, everything that grows and bears green leaf within the forest, that may cover a deer.

I. In old English law. True. Verns dominus: the true lord.

Used commonly, in maritime law, as a synonym of ship, but a broader term, including, as used in federal legislation, any watercraft used, or capable of use, in transportation by wa

To clothe; to clothe with possession; to deliver full possession of land or of an estate; to pass to a person; to give an immediate ^Vested. Fixed; passed in right or enjoyment. Ve

vestre, tfr. In old English law. To vest; to enure. Vestue: clothed.

I. I, A trace, or track; a mark left by a physical object

I. I. In old English law. Clothing, — a figurative expression denoting the character, quality or circumstance of right. In old English law. The technical form requisite to give eff

I. L In old English law. To clothe a contract in the proper form to give it validity. In feudal law. To deliver full possession of land or of an estate; to invest or enfeoff.

7. I. In feudal law. Investiture; deliveiy of possession.

L I In old English law. Literally, a garment; vesture; a crop of grass or grain; possession or admittance to possession. Vestura terree: the vesture of land, coi-n, grass, underwoo

In old English law. Profit of land.

I Ancient statutes, — the English statutes from Magna Chai'ta to the end of the reign of Edward IL v. Nova statuta.

I I. In old English law. A refused or prohibited taking or distress; a refusal to redeliver a distress; a prohibition of its being taken. V^eto, L I forbid, — the power of the exec

Z. In the civil law. The old law; old law, a term used sometimes to designate the law of the Twelve Tables, and sometimes merely a law in force before the passage of a subsequent l

I. In the civil law. Antiquity; time out of memory; ancient or former law or practice.

I. I. Vexed. Vexata et spinosa quaestio: a vexed and thorny question. Vexata qnsestio: a vexed question; a question often agitated or discussed, but not settled.

I. ^path; away; a public way. Via alta: the highway. Via amicabili: in a friendly way. Via trita: the beaten path; — via tiita: the beaten path is the safe path; — est tutissiina:

viaggiiira, I. l, Viage, I. fr. In old English laic. Voyage; a voyage.

In old English laiv. A returning officer.

I. In the Roman law. A sunimoner or apparitor; an officer who attended on the tribunes and sediles; so called, because often on the road; a traveler; a foot-passenger.

One who acts in the place of another; one who is authorized to perform the functions of another. In English ecclesiastical law. The incumbent of an appropriated benefice, — in effe

In English ecclesiastical law. The living or benefice of a vicar, as a parsonage is of a parson. '

I. A deputy; a substitute; one who acts in the place of another. Vicarius non liabet vicarinm: a deputy has not [cannot have] a deputy; a delegated power cannot be again delegated.

In the place or stead; used in the composition of words denoting a delegated or deputed authority. Vice-chancellor: an equity judge who acts as assistant to the chancellor, holding

I. fr. and eng. Neighborhood; near dwelling; vicinity.