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Vir

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A man; a husband.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat. A man, especially as marking the sex. In the Latin phrases and maxims of the old English law, this word generally means "husband," the expression vir et uxor corresponding to the law French boron et feme.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I A man; a husband. Vir et uxor: husband and wife; — censentur in lege una persona: husband and wife are regarded in law as one peraon; — sunt quasi unica persona, quia caro una et sanguis unus; res licet sit propria nxorls.Tir tamen ejus cnstos, cum sit caput mnlieris: husband and wife are, as it^vere, one person, because one flesh and one blood; though a thing may be the property of the wife, yet the husband is the keeper of it, since he is the head of the woman.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

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