validity

authenticity," " legality," and in some eases, " interpretation," but not in any case, " location," " extent," or " boundary." The court asks, " What are the questions involved in the inquiry into the validity of a claim to land?" and it answers thus: "It may present questions of the genuineness and authenticity of title, and whether the evidence is forged or fraudulent, or, it may present an inquiry into the authority of the officer to make the grant..

Freedom from vices of substance; effectiveness in point of law. It is broader than "form" or "requisites," as they are often applied; "form" signifying only regularity or technical phraseology, while "requisites" imports only positive requirements or essentials, and not matters extraneous to the act or instrument itself. VALOR BENEFICIORUM (Lat.)

In ecclesiastical law. The value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first fruits and tenths are collected and paid. The valuation by which the clergy are at present rated was made 26 Hen. VIII., and is commonly called the "King's Books." 1 Bl. Comm. 284*, note 6. VALOR MARITAGII (Lat.) The amount marriage without disparagement, which she refused. It was so much as a jury would assess, or as any one would give bona fide, for the value of the marriage. Litt. 110. A writ which lay against the ward, on coming of full age, for that he was not married by his guardian, for the value of the marriage, and this, though no convenient marriage had been offered. Termes de la Ley.

Legal sufficiency in contradistinction to mere regularity. An official sale, an order, judgment, or decree may be regular; the whole practice in reference to its entry may be correct, but it may still be invalid for reasons going behind the regularity of its forms. Sharpleigh v. Surdam, 1 Flipp. 487, Fed. Cas. No. 12,711. “The term ‘validity,’ as applied to treaties, admits of two descriptions — necessary and voluntary. By the former is meant that which results from the treaties having been made by persons authorized by, and for purposes consistent with, the constitution. By voluntary validity is meant that validity which a treaty, voidable by reason of violation by the other party, still continues to retain by the silent acquiescence and will of the nation. It is voluntary, because it is at the will of the nation to let it remain or to extinguish it. The principles which govern and decide the necessary validity of a treaty are of a judicial nature, while those on which its voluntary validity depends are of a political nature.” 2 Paine 688, as paraphrased in 5 Moore, Int. L. Dig. 183.