Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Empty, unclaimed. Vacant succession: where the heirs are unknown, or have all renounced.

/. Goods unclaimed, without an owner; escheated. T. Bona.

I. To be vacant. Vacatur: it is vacated, annulled.

/. A piece of waste ground.

I. To hold to bail, give bail.

I. Pledges; sureties.

I. To wage; give security. Vadiare duellum: to wage baiiel. Vadiare legem: to waffe law. Vadiatio legis; tcaffer of law.

Lat. A pledge; security, surety. Vadium mortuum: a dead pledge, mortgage. Vadium vivum: a living pledge, a pledge of property to hold until the profits or interests paid off the de

/., Vaillance,^. Value.

/. The value of the mmriage.

Money, goods, lands, services, or marriage. V. Good consideration.

v. Policy. Value of the marriage: v. Marriage.

fr., vavasor, I. 1. A vassal; the chief vassal of a tenant in chief. 2. An old dignity below the peerage. Vana est ilia potentia quae nunquam venit in actum, I. That power is usele

A discrepancy between the statement of the cause of statement in a pleading and the evidence adduced in support of it.

The tenant of ^fief; a feudatory.

Vastitas,;. Waste. Vaut,/?-. Is worth. Rien ne vaut: it is 'worth nothing.

Can. Ne peuvent: they cannot.

fr. Viewers, Ftsores.

I. Or; as; whether.

I. Animals of the chase. Venatio: hunting.

;. (That you expose to sale.) A writ judicial commanding a sheriff to sell goods taken on execution.

Vendee's lien. v. Lien.

/. The belly, womb. Ventre.inspiciendo: v. Be.

visne,/r., Visnetum, vicinetum, /. (The neighborhood.) 1. The neighborhood whence the jury was to be summoned. 2. Hence, the place where the action arose or crime was committed. 3.

I. Words, language. Verba accipienda sunt, worda are to be taken, secundum subjectam materiam, according to the subject matter; ut sortientur e Sectum, so that they may take effect

The formal and unanimous-answer of a petit jury given in open court. General verdict: a verdict simply for the plaintiff or defendant upon the issue, as distinct from a special ver

/. A verdict. Veredicto non obstante: notwithstanding the verdict.

v. Pax regis.

/. In declining circumstances.

The concluding part of a plea in confession and avoidance. An averment. Veritas nominis tollit errorem demonstrationis, I. Truth in the name removes (obviates) error in the descrip

Anything that and bears a green leaf in i. forest; cover. Vest To clothe with possession; to ed use, legacy, or estate is when son in whom the right resides. an estate actually tak

vestura, I. Clothing turae terrse: the things grovring

The ancient statutes end of the reign of Edward II.

I. 1. A refused distrained. 2. Withernam.

/. A doubtful Vey,/n Way.

I. A way, road. Via alta: King's highway. Via amicabili: trita via tuta: the beaten path

I. A voyage; journey.

I. Eorcibly or clam, aut precario: forcibly, armis: by force and arms; v.

The incumbent of an Parson, Tithes.

I. In place of. Vioe-Chaneellor Chancellors in England, each appeal might be taken to the comes (viscount): the sheriff. the sheriff hath not sent the versa: in inverse manner, in

/. Vicinage; neighborhood

I. A village; street.

I. (It is allowed to see.)

/. (We have seen.) An

A widow. Vidua regis deliver full possession. Vestthere is a fixed existing per- To vest in possession: when present interest. Vested reorder: a decree of Chantitle in the cestui g

Inspection; examination. 1. View of frankpledge: the office of a sheriff in seeing all the frankpledges of a hundred, and that all youths above fourteen belonged to some tithing; a

I. A watch, watch.

/. (By ways and means.) A citation against an absent defendant in admiralty practice, served by posting up in certain specified public places, as the Royal Exchange, the Market-cro

A manor; tithing; town.

/. A villein. Villanum servitium: villein service. Villanous judgment One by which the defendant lost his law.

A feudal tenant of the lowest class; at first a simple bondman; afterwards holding land by base and uncertain services. Villein socage: tenure in villeinage, but by certain service

v. Villein, Tenure.

/. A chain; a bond. Vinculo matrimonii: from the marriage tie; v. Divorce.

I. Wine. Vinum adustum: brandy.

A presumption of the truth of a fact founded on circumstances which are necessarily followed by it or attended with it. Violent profits: in Scotch law, double the rent; the extreme

/. A man; a husband. Vir et uzor censentur in lege una persona: man and wife are deemed one person in law.

I. A rod; a staff; a yard.

virgata terree, I. A yard-land; from twenty to forty acres.

I. Marriageable.

/. Virtue; the substance, tenor, effect. Virtute cujus: by virtue of which. Virtute of Bcii: by virtue of his office.

/. Force Vi. Vis armata i an armed force. Vis et fluminis: the force of the current. Vis impressa: the original force, first impulse. Vis inermis: an unarmed force. Vis laica: a la

fr., Vicinetus, I. Neighborhood; vemte.

/. Viewers. Visus: yiew. Visus franci plegii: Fieto of frankpledge J v. Court, 33.

I. Life.

;. Vice; fault; error. Vitium clerici, scriptoris: the mistake of a clerk or scijbe.

I. Living, running water. Viva voce (vive voy 8, fr.): by word of mouth. Vivum vadium: v. Vadium.

I. Scarcely; hardly; rarely.

I. Technical terms.

/. To call upon, vouch. Vocans: a voucher. Vocatf: called. Vocatio: voucher, vouching. Vocatus: a vouchee. "Vochex, fr. To vouch. Voche: a vouchee.

I. I call; I summon; I vouch.

Null. Voidable: that may be annulled at pleasure. Void for remoteness: v. Perpetuity.

Vacancy; want of an incumbent for a benefice.

/. (No injury is done to the willing.) What a person assents to he cannot afterwards complain of as an injury.

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

Free; not compulsory; without consideration, v. Trust; not contentious; intended, not permissive, v. Waste.

I. Will; design; last will. Voluntas dovetur: the- will of the grantor as openly of feoffment should be observed. Voluntas distinguunt maleficia: the intent and different grades of

A grantee or beneficiary in a without consideration.

To call; to call to warranty, v. caU upon a grantor or other warrantor V. Ejectment. Vouchee: the one vouched.

An account-book; acquittance, Vous avez cy,^. Tou have here. Vous

I. Common opinion. common purgation; the ordeal, as differing gation by oath.

I. FiliipopuU; bastards. w.