Law Dictionary

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.

It is rarely that things are wholly void and without force and effect as to all persons and for all purposes, and incapable of being made otherwise. Things are voidable which are v

Where a Court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause; and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, i

The well known distinction between an erroneous act or judgment by a tribunal having cognizance of the subject matter, and the act or judgment of a tribunal having no cognizance of

Voillour. L. Fr. In old English law. A will; a testament. Eelham.

A preliminary examination of a witness or venireman to ascertain whether he is competent.

Fr. Carriage; transportation by carriage,

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

L fr. In old English law. WilL

“volatile ratio” means volatile matter content divided by the volatile matter plus the fixed carbon;

The term "Volcanic Ash Advisory Center" means an entity designated by the International Civil Aviation Organization that is responsible for informing aviation interests a

Lat Willing. He is said to be willing who either expressly consents or tacitly makes no opposition. Calvin.

That mandamus was issued upon the voluntary submission of the collector and the district attorney, and in order to extricate themselves from an embarrassment resulting from conflic

I. To wish, will. Volo: I will. Volimius: we will. Voluit, sed non dixit: he wished, but did not express it. Volentes: being willing. Voluntarius daemon,/. A voluntary madman; a dr

I will; I wish.

He willed, but did not say. 4 Kent, Comm. 538. VOLUMEN (Lat. from 'Wo Zvere, to roll.) In the civil law. A volume; so called from its form, being rolled up.

Lat. In the civil law. A volume; se calied from its form, being rolled up.

We will. The first word of a clause in the royal writs of protection and letters patent.

So far as due process affects admissions before trial of the defendant, the accepted test is their voluntariness.

that a defendant was not advised of his right to remain silent or of his right respecting counsel at the outset of interrogation, as is now required by Miranda, is a significant fa

A drunkard. Co. Litt. 247a.

The term “voluntary”— (i) in the case of any action brought under the securities laws as is defined in section 78c(a)(47) of title 15 — (I) does not include information or statemen

If a seizure be completely and explicitly abandoned, and the property restored by the voluntary act of the party who has made the seizure, all rights under it are gone. Although ju

it should appear from the evidence and circumstances attending the transaction that the acceptance was intended as a discharge of the vessel and owner from any further responsibili

Parties may adjust their own disputes, and when they do so voluntarily and understandingly, no appeal lies to the courts to review their mutual decision.

temporary price reductions granted by the oil companies to independent dealers who are injured by local competitive price reductions of competing retailers.

In chancery practice. An answer put in by a defendant, when the plaintiff had filed no interrogatories which required an answer.

An appearance and waiver of service of summons or notice. See 87 Md. 671, 40 Atl. 897.

Taken together, these sections mean that a debt due the United States is required first to be satisfied when the possession and control of the estate of the insolvent is given to a

Bankruptcy proceedings instituted by the debtor himself.

Even if this bond did not strictly conform to the act of congress prescribing the form... a bond voluntarily given to the United States, and not prescribed by any statute, would st

The term “voluntary building energy code” means a building energy code developed and updated through a consensus process among interested persons, such as that used by the Council

voluntary cessation of allegedly illegal conduct does not deprive the tribunal of power to hear and determine the case, i.e., does not make the case moot. The case may nevertheless

a forced abandonment of their ancestral home was not a 'voluntary cession' within the meaning of § 2 of the Act of July 27, 1866.

In the federal courts, the requisite of voluntariness is not satisfied by establishing merely that the confession was not induced by a promise or a threat. A confession is voluntar

The aim of the rule that a confession is inadmissible unless it was voluntarily made is to exclude false evidence. Tests are invoked to determine whether the inducement to speak wa

The term “voluntary consensus standard” has the meaning given such term in Office of Management and Budget Circular Number A–119, as revised February 10, 1998. / The term “voluntar

The transfer of an estate made without any adequate consideration of value.

A deed from a parent to a child, for the consideration of love and affection, is not absolutely void as against creditors. It may be so under certain circumstances; but the mere fa

One without consideration.

In civil law. A deposit which is made by the mere consent or agreement of the parties. 1 Bouv. Inst, note 1054. See "Deposit."

where a writing has been voluntarily destroyed, with an intent to produce a wrong or injury to the opposite party, or for fraudulent purposes, or to create an excuse for its non-pr

The case is therefore not one where the master set sail with the knowledge that the deviation from the voyage, as described in the bill of lading, would ensue, and with the purpose

A dismissal of his action by the plaintiff.

One which a person voluntarily acquires.

The term “voluntary employee contribution” means any contribution (other than a mandatory contribution within the meaning of section 411(c)(2)(C))— (i) which is made by an individu

The term "voluntary environmental credit market" means a voluntary market through which agriculture or forestry credits may be bought or sold.