Law Dictionary

Va sensitive data.—The term “VA sensitive data” means all Department data, on any storage media or in any form or format, which requires protection due to the risk of harm that cou

In feudal law. The name given to the holder of a fief bound to perform feudal service. This word was then always correlative to that of "lord," entitled to such service. The vassal

The sinte or condition of a vassal.

A vassal.

The tenure or holding of a vassal. Cowell. VASTITAS (Law Lat. from vastum, q. v.) In old English law. A waste. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 22, § 6. VASTUM (Law Lat.) Waste; a waste or common

A waste.

Waste..

In old records. Waste of a forest or wood. That part of a forest or wood wherein the trees and underwood were so destroyed that it lay in a manner waste and barren. Parochi Antiq.

For repairing and keeping in suitable condition.

Sorcery; witchcraft; the profession of the Vaudois. 3 Hallam, Mid. Ages, c. ix., pt. 2, p. 386, note. VAVASOR or VAVASOUR (Law Lat.) In old English law. The vassal or tenant of a b

In old European law. Sorcery ; witchcraft; the profession of the Vau-dois.

A vassal.

The lands that a vavasour held. Cowell. VECTIGAL (Lat. from vehere, to carry). In the civil law. A custom or impost upon goods brought into or carried out of a state (quod pro rebu

One who was in dignity next to a baron. Britt. 109; Bract, llb. 1, c. & One who held of a baron. Ena Brit.

The term “VAWA self-petitioner” means an alien, or a child of the alien, who qualifies for relief under— (A) clause (iii), (iv), or (vii) of section 1154(a)(1)(A) of this title ; (

An abbreviation for "vice-chancellor."

Vice-Chancellor's Court. V. C. Rep. Vice-Chancellor's Reports, English.

Upper Canada Queen's (King's) Bench Reports, Old Series.

An abbreviation for "venditioni exponas," (q. v.)

The tenants of the manor of Bradford, in the county of Wilts, paid a yearly rent by this name to their lord, in lleu of veal paid formerly in kind. Wharton.

Can. Ne peuvent: they cannot.

An officer of the king's forest, who is sworn to maintain and keep the assises of the forest, and to view, receive, and enrol the attachments and presentments of all manner of tres

In old Lombardic law. The offense of stopping one on the way; forestalling. Spelman.

ORIGINE IPSA, JUS CAESARUM et regum patrimoniale est. Tribute, in its origin, is the patrimonial right of emperors and kings. Dav. 12.

In Roman Law. Duties which were paid to the prince for the importation and exportation of certain merchandise. They differed from tribute, which was a tax paid by each individual.

Fines paid to the crown to defray the expenses of maintaining courts of justice. 3 Salk. 38.

Dav. 12. Tribute, in its origin, is the patrimonial right of emperors and kings.

The term “vector” means any organism capable of transmitting the causative agent of human disease or capable of producing human discomfort or injury, including mosquitoes, flies, f

Freight.

In this section, the terms “fruits”, “vegetables”, and “other specialty food crops” shall have the meaning given the terms by the Secretary of Agriculture.

See Perishable; Sound, 1 (1).

“Vegetable seeds” shall include the seeds of those crops that are or may be grown in gardens or on truck farms and are or may be generally known and sold under the name of vegetabl

The term “vegetative cover” means— (A) perennial grasses, legumes, forbs, or shrubs with an expected life span of 5 or more years; or (B) trees.

every description of carriage or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land, but does not include aircraft.

The term “vehicle fleet” means all owned, commercially leased, or Government-leased vehicles of the Department or of a component of the Department, as the case may be, including ve

For purposes of this subsection, the term “vehicle fringe benefit” means any fringe benefit— (A) which constitutes wages (as defined in section 3401), and (B) which consists of pro

The term “vehicle registration” means the registration of any commercial motor vehicle under the International Registration Plan (as defined in section 31701) or any other registra

The term “vehicle rental facility” means any person or entity that provides vehicles for rent, lease, loan, or other similar use to the public or any segment thereof.

In this subsection, the term “vehicle storage qualifying order” means any of the following: (A) An order to make a change of permanent station to a foreign country in a case in whi

“vehicle theft prevention standard” means a minimum performance standard for identifying major parts of new motor vehicles and major replacement parts by inscribing or affixing num

“Vehicular natural gas” means natural gas that is ultimately used as a fuel in a self-propelled vehicle.

See "Fehmgerichte." VEIES (Law Fr.) Distresses forbidden to be replevied; the refusing to let the owner have his cattle which were distrained. Kelham.

L. Fr. Distresses forbidden to be replevied; the refusing to let the owner have his cattle which were distrained. Kel-ham.

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

A vein is a well-defined body of mineral within inclosed rocks. It has an onward course and a downward course.

Lines or aggregations of metal embedded in quartz or other rock in place. See 128 U. S. 673, 32 L. Ed. 571, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 195.

An obsolete word, which signified viewers or experts.

Whether; or.

In 6Id English law, a toll booth. Cro. Jac. 122. VELITIS JUBEATIS QUIRITES7 (Lat.) Is it your will and pleasure, Romans? The form of proposing a law to the Roman people. Tayl. Civ.

A writ addressed to the magistrates of a corporation, requiring them not to make such a man an officer, or to put one out of the office he has, until inquiry is made of his manners

Yeomen retained by heriif to escort the judge of assize.

in English practice, is a writ which in certain cases issues after an imperfect inquisition returned on a capias utlugatum io outlawry. This melius inquirendum commands the sheriff

Lat. Is it your will and pleasure, Romans? The form of proposing a law to the Roman peo-pie. Tayl. Civil Law, 155.

To be willing; to consent.

He is not deemed to consent who obeys the command of his father or master.

In Seotch law. Jailer or 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 33.

The office of dog leader or courser. Cowell. ■

One who leads greyhounds. Blount.

Something that is bought. The term is generally applied in a bad sense; as, a venal ofiice is an office which has been purchased.

Things to be sold; perishable goods to be sold to avoid loss. See 19 N. Y. Super. Ct. 123.

Beasts caught in the woods by hunting. VENATIO (Law Lat. from venari, to hunt). In old English law. The chase or hunt. Cowell.

Hunting.

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

To vend is also a term readily understood and of no doubtful import. Its use in the statute secured to the inventor the exclusive right to transfer the title for a consideration to

The vendee acquires the property for himself, and his faith is not pledged to maintain the title of the vendor. The rights of the vendor are intended to be extinguished by the sale

if a vendee buys up a better title than that of the vendor, and the vendor was guilty of no fraud, he can only be compelled to refund to the vendee the amount of money paid for the

The rule of the courts of Mississippi, as well as of this court, is, that, except in special cases, a vendee in possession cannot, at law or in equity, contest the payment of the p

One selling the same thing to two persons is fraudulent.

A seller.

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

Capable of being sold; salaable., VENDICARE (Lat.) In the civil and old English law. To claim a thing as one's own; to assert a right to a thing. To take a thing as one's own. Calv

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.

“vending facility” means automatic vending machines, cafeterias, snack bars, cart services, shelters, counters, and such other appropriate auxiliary equipment as the Secretary may

“vending machine income” means receipts (other than those of a blind licensee) from vending machine operations on Federal property, after cost of goods sold (including reasonable s

In old European law. A tax upon things sold in markets and publlc fairs. Spelman.

He comes and denies the force and injury.

In old European law. A tax on things sold in markets and fairs. Spelman. VENDITIO (Lat.) In the civil law. In a strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the contract of sale, otherw

A sale; the act of selling. VENDITIONI EXPONAS (Lat. that you expose to sale). In practice. The name of a writ of execution, directed to the sheriff, commanding him to sell goods o

That writ was regarded as a completion of the previous execution, by which the property had been appropriated, and not as an original or independent proceeding.

Lat A seller; a vendor. Inst. 3, 24; Bract fol. 41. —Venditor regis. In old English law. The king's seller or salesman ; the person who exposed to sale those goods and chattels whi

The king’s salesman of goods seized to pay a debt due the king.

LatA female vendor. Co.d. 4, 51, 3.

The term “vendor” means any person who, through the use of the telephone, offers goods or services for a telephone-billed purchase.

The act of 37 & 38 Vict. c. 78, which substitutes forty for sixty years as the root of title, and amends in other ways the law of vendor and purchaser. Mozley & Whitley.

The term “vendor of personal health records” means an entity, other than a covered entity (as defined in paragraph (3)), that offers or maintains a personal health record.

a vendor is bound to know that he actually has that which he professes to sell. And even though the subject-matter of the contract be known to both parties to be liable to a contin

That a vendor, who has taken no other security for the purchase money, retains a lien for it on the land as against the vendee, or his heirs, seems to be well settled by the Englis

the lien of the vendor, if in the nature of a trust, is a secret trust; and, although to be preferred to any other subsequent equal equity, unconnected with a legal advantage, or e

taking a note or a bond from the vendee with a surety, has generally been held evidence of an intention to rely exclusively upon the personal security taken, and therefore, presump

From these authorities it may by laid down as a settled rule, that at law, to entitle the vendor to recover the purchase money, he must aver in his declaration a performance of the

A public auction.

An auctioneer.

A debt or obligation completa when contracted, but of which the performance cannot be required till some future period.

In Roman law. The Cornelian law respecting assassins and poisoners. Passed by the dictator Sylla. Dig. 48, 6; Calvin. Lex de futuro, judex de preterito. The law provides for the fu

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

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

A kneeling or low prostration on the ground by penitents; pardon.

In the civil law. The privilege of age. A privilege granted by a prince or sovereign, in virtue of which a person is entitled to act, sui juris, as if he were of full age. Calv. Le

Facility of pardon is an encouragement to crime.