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Vejours

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

An obsolete word, which signified viewers or experts.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Viewers; persons sent by the court to take a view of any place in question, for the better decision of the right. It signifies, also, such as are sent to view those that essoin themselves de malo lecti, (i. e, excuse themselves on ground of illness) whether they be in truth se sick as that tbe# cannot appear, or whether they do counterfeit. Cowell.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. fr.

In old English law. Viewers; court to take view of a place.

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

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

fr. Viewers, Ftsores.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Viewers; persons sent by the court to take a view of any place in question, for the better decision of the right. It signifies, also, such as are sent to view those that essoine themselves de malo le.cti (i.e. excuse themselves on ground of illness), whether they be in truth so sick as