Law Dictionary

In old English law. Lay force; an armed force used to hold possession of a church. Reg. Orig. 59, 60.

Force is Inimicial to the laws. 3 Inst. 176.

In old English law. Lawful force. Bracton, fol. 162. VIS MAJOR (Lat.) A superior force. In law it signifies inevitable accident. This term is used in the civil law in nearly the sa

Act of God; an event which, as between the parties and for the purpose of the matter in hand, cannot be definitely seen or controlled. See 162 Ind. 278, 102 Am. St. Rep. 203, 1 Ann

Although mere suspicion, not resting upon strong circumstances unexplained, should not be permitted to outweigh positive testimony in giving effect to a penal statute; yet it canno

The neighborhood; a neighboring place; a place near at hand; the venue. Formerly the visne was confined to the immediate neghborhood where the cause of action arose, and many verdi

Same as Vicinage.

Viewers. See View .

In old English law. Force used between parties contending for a possession.

Same as Vis impressa.

m old Biigllsh law. Simple or mere force. Distinguished by Bracton from "vis armata," and also from "vis expu Uiva." Bracton, fol. 162.

the terms “VISTA” and “Volunteers in Service to America” mean the program established under part A of subchapter I;

the term “VISTA volunteer” means a volunteer in VISTA; and

the term “visual depiction” includes undeveloped film and videotape, and data stored on a computer disk or by electronic means which is capable of conversion into a visual image, a

The term “visual image” means the following: (A) Any developed or undeveloped photograph, picture, film, or video. (B) Any digital or computer image, picture, film, or video made b

View, which see.

View of frankpledge, which see.

Life.

I fr. In old English law.

the question is not whether the third-party concern is antagonistic to or compatible with the interests of bargaining-unit employees, but whether it vitally affects the 'terms and

Public records kept by a state, city or other governmental subdivision, under a statutory provision, of births, marriages and deaths, and disease. Certificates required by statute

For life fanlt. This phrase describes the an office which is otherwise said to Id “for life or during good behavior.” It alent to gquamdiu bene se gesserit.

To impair; to make void or voidable; to cause to fail of force or effect; to destroy or annul, either entirely or in part, the legal efficacy and binding force of an act or instrum

ired within which persons are rry. They are set forth in h chapter of Leviticus.

To litigate cavilously, vexatiously or from merely quarrelsome motives.

Cavilous litigation. Obsolete. Webster.

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;

See "Vicious Intromission." VITIUM CLER1CI NOCERE NON DEBET. Clerical errors ought not to prejudice. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 23; Dig. 34. 5. 8.

Vice; error.

A clerk’s error; a clerical error.

Clerical errors ought not to prejudice.

NE, si rationem non invenias, mox legem sine ratione esse dames. It is a fault which ought to be avoided, that if you cannot discover the reason, you should presently exclaim that

It is a fault which ought to be avoided, that if you cannot discover the reason, you presently exclaim that the law is without reason.

Ellesm. Post. N. 86-It is a fault which ought to be avoided, that lf you cannot discover the reason you shonid presently exclaim that the law is without reason.

In old English law. The fault or mistake of a writer or copyist; a clerical error. Gilb. For. Rom. 185.

Lat In the civil law. A step-father; a mother's second husband. Calvin.

In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which issues from a spring or fountain (quae fonte exit). Calv. Lex. VIVA PECUNIA (Law Lat.) In old English law. Live cattle. Se

Lat Cattle, which obtained this name from being received during the Saxon period as money upon most occasions, at certain regulated prices. CowelL

or VIVARY (Lat. from vivus, alive). In the Civil Law. An inclosed place, where live wild animals are kept. Calv. Lex.; Spelman; A. Gell. Noct. Att. ii. 20. In Old English Law. A pl

A place where living things are kept: as, a park on land; or, in the water, as a pond.

Orally; by acclamation.

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.

It is permitted in England only upon license from the Home Office, and in some cases the place must be registered. The experiments must be performed with the object of advancing kn

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

See Vadium vivum .

Scarcely; hardly.

Scarcely any law can be made which is convenient to all, but if it provides for the majority, it is of advantage.

Scarcely any law can be made which is adapted to all, but, lf it provide for the greater part, it is useful. Plowd. 869. '

Videlicet, which see.

The term “VNM” means the value of nonoriginating materials used by the producer in the production of the good. / The term “VNM” means the value of nonoriginating materials used by

The term “VOC” means volatile organic compound, as defined by the Administrator.

Words of art; technical terms.

Technical terms should be explained according to the definitions of experienced persons.

Terms of arte are to be explained according to the definitions of the learned or skilled [in such arts.] Bl. Law Tracts, 6.

A voucher.

To call.

In feudal law. To summon to court. Feud. lib. 2, tit. 22. VOCATIO IN JUS (Lat.) In Roman law. According to the practice in the legis actiones of the Roman law, a person having dema

Called.

Lat A summoning to court. In the earlier practice of the Roman law, (under the lepis actiones,) the creditor orally called upon his debtor to go with him before the prætor for the

Preaching and teaching the principles of one's sect, if performed part-time or half-time, occasionally or irregularly, are insufficient to bring a registrant under § 6(g). These ac

The term "vocational education" has the meaning given the term "career and technical education" in section 2302 of title 20.

The term “vocational goal” means a gainful employment status consistent with a veteran's abilities, aptitudes, and interests.

The term "vocational rehabilitation program" means a program authorized under a provision covered under paragraph (13)(D). / The term “vocational rehabilitation program”

The term “vocational rehabilitation referral” means any individual who is certified by the designated local agency as— (A) having a physical or mental disability which, for such in

The term “vocational rehabilitation services” means those services identified in section 723 of this title which are provided to individuals with disabilities under this chapter. /

See Business; Happiness; Tax, 2; Trade. VOID; VOIDABLE.2 As employed in contracts, laws, decisions, and text-books these words are often ambiguous. They have been more or less inte

A vouchee.

Hue and cry.

In a statute forbidding the use of loud and vociferous language, making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy. Webst.; Anderson v. State (Tex.) 20 S. W. 359.

Lat. In the civll and old English law. I call; I summon; I vouch. In jus voco te, I summon you to court; I summon you before the prætor. The formula by which a Roman action was anc

The term “voice service”— (i) means any service that is interconnected with the public switched telephone network and that furnishes voice communications to an end user using resou

voidable at the vendor's election, and the condition may be insisted upon or waived, at his choice.

This language establishes that the guilty party is precluded from enforcing the contract against an unwilling innocent party, but it does not compel the conclusion that the contrac

Their purchase was declared void only as against the creditors of the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company. In other words, it was only voidable, not absolutely void. By satisf

the deed of an infant, being an executed contract, is only voidable at his election; that it is not void. It operates to transmit the title.

The District Court did not lose jurisdiction by erroneously construing or applying provisions of the statute under which it administered the bankrupt estate. Its order was voidable

It is not true, that because a policy is procured by misrepresentation of material facts, it is therefore to be treated, in the sense of the law, as utterly void ab initio. It is m

[a creditor's right of] surrender exists as well after suit as before suit. ... [The trustee may avoid preferences without a demand before suit when demand would have been unavaili

Vacancy.

The act of emptying; ejection from a benefice,

Care is to be observed lest the doctrine that a contract is void as against public policy be unreasonably extended. Detriment to the public interest is not to be presumed in the ab

One void claim, however, does not vitiate the entire patent, if made by mistake or inadvertence and without any wilful default or intent to defraud or mislead the public.

A warrant of commitment departing in matter of substance from the judgment back of it is void. Being void and not merely irregular, its nullity may be established upon a writ of ha

If this court entertained a doubt of the validity of the decree rendered by the circuit court of the county of Washington, ordering a conveyance of the title of Hamlin in the lands

Those who allege that it is void for uncertainty, must prove either that there are two estates called 'El Cahon,' near the mission of San Diego, to which the description in the pat

It was not the criminal penalty that was held invalid, but the exaction of obedience to a rule or standard which was so vague and indefinite as really to be no rule or standard at

The essential purpose of the 'void for vagueness' doctrine is to warn individuals of the criminal consequences of their conduct.

the statute is like a tyrant; where he comes, he makes all void: but the common law is like a nursing father, and makes void only that part where the fault is, and preserves the re

Curtis v. Leavitt, 15 N. Y. 9, 96.

A judgment obtained in a suit of which the defendant had no notice was a nullity and the party against whom it was obtained was entitled to relief. For in such a case the person na

A judgment rendered in personam against a defendant without jurisdiction of his person is not only erroneous but void.

where an allottee undertakes to negotiate a lease for a forbidden term he enters a field in which he must be regarded as without capacity or authority to negotiate or act and that

One which is good for no legal purpose. See 44 Am. Dec. 54, note.

an irregular or a void judicial sale, made at the instance of a mortgagee, passes to the purchaser all the rights the mortgagee, as such, had

where a specification by ambiguity and a needless multiplication of nebulous claims is calculated to deceive and mislead the public, the patent is void.

Whatever may be the rule with regard to decrees concerning status or its incidents, an ordinary personal judgment for money, invalid for want of service amounting to due process of

Void process confers no right on the officer to sell, and all acts done under it are absolute nullities.

a release of rights under the Act is void when the employee is induced to sign it by the deliberately false and material statements of the railroad's authorized representatives mad

People v. Shall, 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 778, 784.