Vivum vadium

See Vadium Vivum. V0CATI0 IN JUS (Lat.). In Roman Law. According to the practice in the legis actiones of the Roman law, a person having a demand against another verbally cited him to go with him to the prator: in jus eamus; in jus te voco. This was denominated vocatio in jus. If a person thus summoned refused to go, he could be compelled by force to do so, unless he found a vindex, — that is, procurator, or a person to undertake his cause. When the parties appeared before the praetor, they went through the particular formalities required by the action applicable to the cause. If the cause was not ended the same day, the parties promised to appear again at another day, which was called vadimonium.

or living pledge, in contracts, is when a man borrows a sum of money (suppose two hundred dollars,) of another, and grants him an estate, as of twenty dollars per annum, to hold till the rents and profits shall repay the sum so borrowed. This is an estate conditioned to be void, as soon as such sum is raised. And in this case the land or pledge is said to be living; it subsists, and survives the debt, and immediately on the discharge of that, results back to the borrower. 2 Bl. Com. 157. See Anttchresis; Mortgage.