A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. fr. Faulty; defective; bad.

viconntlel, I. fr. and eng. In English law. Belonging to the sheriff.

viconntlels. In old English law. Farms for which the sheriff paid a rent to the king, and carried on for his own profit.

I. In the civil law. Sustenance; the means of living.

I. In old English law. A street in a town; a passage between two rows of houses; a neighborhood of houses out of a town; a village.

quse ssepe vindlcantur, /. You will see those offenses often committed which are often punished.

I It is permitted to see; to wit; that is to say; namely. A term used as prefatory to a particular statement of something mentioned in general terms; and used in pleading where a p

I. It is seen; it appears; it is considered, v. Qui tacet, etc.

I. I. In old English laiv. We have seen. A species of exemplification of the enrolment of charters or other instruments, — so called from the initial word.

I. It is to be seen; it is to be considered.

I. fr. Life.,

In old English law. Persons to testify the view. Vi^ilantibns et non dorinientibus jura lieve or succor those who are ■^igilant, their rights].

Z. I. Byways and means; against non-residents are sometimes certain public places.

I. In Saxon law. A farm, or collection of neighboring houses, town or vill. Villa est ex pluribns lata ex pliiribus vicinis; et sub tur burgi et civitates: a vill (town) is boring

I In old English law. A man; a villein. Villanus amercietar, villein shall be amerced, saving his husbandry].

I I. In old £^nglish latv. A township or vill.

villcine, villeyn, villain, vlleyn, old English law. A feudal tenant of base and uncertain services, of the most a live distress. old debts. / inspection; inspection, or excourse o

Villeiiag:inm, /, I. In old English law. The condition, or tenure of a villein; bondage.

In old English law. A sentence which cast the reproach of villainy on him against whom it was pronounced.

/. fr. In old English laio. A villein.

modo flat moderamine incnlpatse tntelse, nonad snmendam vindictam, sed ad propulsandam injnriam, I. It is lawful to repel force by force, provided it be done with the moderation of

I, A chain; a connected series; a connection or relation;■ a bond; a tie; the binding force of law. Vincnlnm matrimonii: the bond or tie of marriage; the matrimonial obligation.

I. In the civil laio. To claim or challenge; to avenge; tO' punish.

I. In the civil law. Tlie claiming of a thing as one's own; the name of an action in rem, by which a thing or right was claimed.

Liquor made from the juice of the grape.

Produced by force; strong, almost conclusive. Flolent presumption: proof of a fact by the proof of circumstances which, necessarily attend it v. Violenta, etc. In Scots law. Violen

I A man; a husband. Vir et uxor: husband and wife; — censentur in lege una persona: husband and wife are regarded in law as one peraon; — sunt quasi unica persona, quia caro una et

In English law. A place cluding fishes.

L In old English law. A rod or white staff, such as sheriffs,, bailiffs, etc., carried as a badge of ofittce; a yard. Virga alnaria: a ferrea: the iron yard, — the standard yard, a

I. I. In old English law. The royal verge; the bounds of the king's household, within which the court of the steward had jurisdiction. This extended for a space of twelve leagues i

1. 1, In old English law. A verger.

I. I. In old English law. A verderbr.

Tirlde, I. In old English law. Yert.

Z. In the civil law. Marriageable; viripotent

I. In old English law. The substance or tenor. Tirtns actionis: the substance of the action.

1. By virtue. Virtnte eujus: by virtue whereof. Virtntc officii: by virtue of office.

To refuse to be bound by a former act; to declare that one will not abide by a former act

I fr., Visiietum, I I In ■vicinity; vicinage; Tenua

Inspection; superintendence; In English law. Tisitation books: College, containing the pedigrees cipal gentry in England.

I. I. In old English law. one who had cast an essoin de

1. In old English law. View person; inspection by jurors of of a person who had cast an plegii: view of frank-pledge.

I In old English law. Life.

I fr. In old English law.

J. In old English law. Fault; the mistake of a clerk; a clerical clerical error ought not to prejudice. or mistake of a writer, or copyist In the civil law. Vitium: fault;

I?i Scots law. with the movable estate of a law.

I. In old English law. ing things are kept, as a park, a In the civil law. An enclosed place,

I. The living voice; oral word of mouth. In old English law. A living witness, offered in evidence.

vive voys, I. fr. In old testimony of a witness.

/. I. In old English in which the rents and profits payment of the debt

L Scarcely; rarely. Vix ulla moda sit, sed si majori parti

t In old English law. We will, — first word of a clause inserted in writs of protection.

L fr. In old English law. WilL

Free; without compulsion or solicitation; in accordance with one's own will. Without consideration; without valuable consideration. Voluntary assignment: an assignment by a debtor

Z. Will; intent; design; purpose; desire; a will. Voluntas donatoris, in charta doni sni manifesto expressa, observetur: the will or intention of a donor, clearly expressed in the

volant, volonnte, I. fr. Will; mind; intention.

A grantee or a beneficiary in a voluntary conveyance.

I.L A voluntary madman, a term applied to a drunken man.

In old English law. To call; to call to warranty; to call on a

The passage of a vessel from one port to another or to others. Voyage insured: a transit at sea from the terminus a quo to the terminus ad quem, in a prescribed course of navigatio

Lat. Common. Vulgaris opinio: common opinion; — est duplex, sc. opinio vulgaris orta inter graves et discretos, et quae vultum veritatis habet, et opinio tantum orta inter leves et

I. In the civil law. Spurious children; bastards; those who cannot point out their father, or who have a father whom it is not lawful to have. Vulgo queesiti: spurious children; th

I. fr. In old English law. A vagabond, or vagrant.

In Scots law. A setting or putting to pledge; a disposition

Taga, I Z. In old English law. A measure of cheese, salt, wool, etc., containing two hundred and fifty-six pounds avoirdupois; a weigh.

In old English law. To give security for the performance of a thing. Wage battel: to give security for joining in the duellum. Wage law: to give security to make one's 1p,w.

I. fr. In old English law. Gage; pledge.

A contract by which two or more agree that a certain sum of money or other thing shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event;

CompensatioQ for services by the day, week or month; compensation to a hired person for his services.

waife, wayf, wayfe, weyfe. In English law. A thing stolen, which is thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended.

Wainagiuin, wanaginm, waynagiuin, I. I. In old English law. The team and instruments of husbandry with which a villein performed his services.

To throw away from one; to throw aside, as a thief does the thing he has stolen, in his flight; to give up that of which one has the possession; to abandon; to relinquish voluntari

A throwing aside, abandonment or relinquishment; a passing by or over; the express relinquishment of a right or advantage, which one may enforce or insist upon; the implied relinqu

wayviare, weyviare, Z. ?. In old English law. To waive; to throw away; to forsake, or abandon; to outlaw a woman.

I. I. In old English laiv. The outlawing of a woman.

I. I. In old English laui. Waif; a waif.

In Scots law. The revival of an action, — a process by which

I. I. In old English law. To repair or keep up a wall; to wall or enclosa Wallatur fossato Tel haia: it is enclosed with a ditch or with a hedge.,

I. I. In old English law. Waleschery; the fact of being a Welshman.

Reckless; regardless of the right of others.

In English law. A division of a county in the north of England, corresponding with a hundred; a hundred court, or hundred-gemote.

An armed contest between nations, or between different portions of the same nation, — when between nations called public; when between portions of the same nation, and arising out

I. I. In old English law. Fallow; fallow-ground.

I. I In old English law. Warranty; guaranty.

Lat. In old English law. To warrant. Warantizare nihil aliud est quam tenentem vocantem defendere in sua seisina vel possessione erga petentem: to warrant is nothing else than to d

It In old English law. Warranty.

I I. In old English law. I warx-ant.

warrantus, I. I. In old English law. One who had covenanted to warrant another's title, and who might be called on, or vouched to defend it; a warrantor.

A person under the care of a guardian; a division of a city, — so called because under the care of an alderman. In English law. Ward-mote: a court held in every ward in London. In

vardare, 1. 1 In old Scots judgment.

In Saxon law. The ward; a court held in or for a ward.

One who has by office the keeper. In English law. Warden of the siding ofi Scer of the Cinque Ports.

In English law. established in the reign of Henry of matters relating to the king's tenure.

In feudal and old English act as guardian to the heir of a which consisted in having the the heir, without account of profits, males, and sixteen in females,

I. Jr. In old English law.

I. I. In old English law. land in the spring, in order to let until the sowing in the autumn.

waractuin, wareccuin, I. ground; land that has been neglected

I. I. In old English law.

I, I. In old English law. less.

In Scots law. Warranty by which the grantor obliges himself be effectual to the receiver.

To give assurance of the of a thing sold, or the validity of property insured.