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Vadiare

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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 Vadiare legem: to wage law; to give security to make one's law at a day assigned. Vadiata leg's, habebit diem ad facicndam legem: law being waged, he shall have a day to make law.