Vetituni namium

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In old English law. A refused or prohibited taking or distress; a refusal to redeliver a distress; a prohibition of its being taken. V^eto, L I forbid, — the power of the executive department of a government, of negativing bills which have been passed by the legislature.

In the Roman law. The word by which the Roman tribunes expressed their dissent from the passage of a law or from other proceeding.