Va
495, 39 S. B. 126, 55 L. R. A. 155, 86 Am. 489. ero corporation. One engaged in commerce in the broadest sense of that term; hence including a railroad comany. Sweatt v. Railroad Co., 23 Fed. Cas. 396, 16 S. E. 274; Ba...
Terms beginning with "V" (152 total)
VACUA POSSESSIO
Lat. The vacant possession, 4. e., free and unburdened possession, which (e. g.) a vendor had and has to give to a purchaser of lands.
VADES
Lat. In the civil law. Pledges; sureties; bail; security for the appearance of a defendant or accused person in court. Calvin.
VADIARE DUELLUM
L. Lat. In old English law. To wage or gage the duellum ; to wage battel; to give pledgés mutually for engaging in the trial by combat.
VADIMONIUM
Lat. In Roman law. Bail or security; the giving of bail for appearance in court; a recognizance. Calvin.
VADIUM
Lat. A pledge; security by pledge of property. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld.
VAGABOND
VAGABOND. One that wanders about, and has no certain dwelling; an idle fellow. Jacob.
VALEC, VALEOT, or VADELET. In
old English law. A young gentleman; also a servitor or gentleman of the chamber.
VALENTIA
L. Lat. The value or price
VALOR BENEFICIORUM
L. Lat. The value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first fruits and tenths are collected and paid. It is commonly called the “king’s books,” by which the clergy are at present...
VALOR MARITAGII
Lat. Value of the marriage. In feudal law, the guardian in chivalry had the right of tendering to his infant ward a suitable match, without “disparagement,” (inequality,) which, if the infants refused, they forfeited...
VALUABLE CONSIDERATION
the mother, that a man was a Welshman. Wharton.
VALUABLE CONSIDERATION. The
distinction between a good and a valuable consideration is that the former consists of blood, or of natural love and affection; as when a man grants an estate to a near relation from motives of generosity, prudence, and ...
Van
L. Vander Linden’s Practice, Cape Colony. Van N. Van Ness’ Prize Cases.
Van Blarcom, 100 Mo. App
185, 74 8. W. 124: Joyner v. Railway Co., 26 S. C. 49,1 S. EB. 52: Nicholas v. Peck, 21 R. I. 404, 48 Atl. 1088; Railroad Co. v. Yorty, 158 Ill. 321, 42
Van Rensselaer v. Radcliff, 10 Wend
(N. Y¥.) 649: Smith v. Floyd, 18 Barb. (N. Y.) 527. —Common because of vicinage is where the inhabitants of two townships which lie contizuous to each other have usually intercommoned with one another, the beasts of t...
Vanderen, 1 Dall
67, 1 L. Ed. 38;, Russell v. Eubanks, 84 Mo. 88. l
Vansant v. State, 96 Md
110, 58 Atl. 711; Wren v. Luzerne County, 6 Kulp (Pa.) 37.
VAOATIO
Lat. In the civil law. Exemption; immunity; privilege; dispensation; exemption from the burden of office. Calvin.
VAOATUR
Lat. Let it be vacated. In practice, a rule or order by which a proceeding is vacated; a vacating.
VAOCANTIA BONA
Lat. In the civil law. Goods without an owner, or in which no one claims a property;: escheated goods.
VAOCUUS
Lat. In the civil law. Emp ty; void; vacant; unoccupied. Calvin.
VAS
Lat. In the civil law. A pledge:
VASSELERIA
of a vassal. Cowell.
VASTUM. IL
Lat. A waste or common lying open to the cattle of all tenants who have a right of commoning. Cowell. -—Vastum forests vel bosci. In old records. Waste of a forest or wood. That part of a forest or wood wherein the tre...
VATI MITTENDO IN CANCELLARIUM
A writ which certified the foot of a fine levied before justices in eyre, etc., into the chancery. Reg. Orig. 669.
Vatt. Law Nat
(or Vattel). Law of Nations.
Vattel, liv
4, c. 6, § 76. ro, ;
Vaug
(or Vaugh.) $Vaughan’s English Common Pleas Reports.
VAV ASORY
VARA. A Spanish-American measure of length, equal to 33 English inches or a trifle more or less, varying according to local usage. See U. S. v. Perot, 98 U. 8. 428, 25 L.
VAVASOUR
VAVASOUR. One who was in dignity next to a baron. Britt. 109; Bract. Hb. 1, ec. & One who held of a baron. Enc. Brit.
Ve
(or Ves.). Vesey’s English Chancery Reports. (or Ves.) &B. Vesey & Beames’ English Chancery Reparts.
Veal, 10 Ind
356, 71 Am. Dec, 331; Com. v. J., 21 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 626.
Veazey. Veazey’s Reports, vols
36-46 Vermont. Vent.
VECTIGAL JUDICIARIUM
Lat. Fines paid to the crown to defray the expenses of maintaining courts of justice. 38
VEIES
L. Fr. Distresses forbidden to be replevied; the refusing to let the owner have his cattle which were distrained. Kelham.
VELITIS JUBEATIS QUIRITES? Lat
Is it your will and pleasure, Romans? The form of proposing a law to the Reman people. Tayl. Civil Law, 155.
Venable, 120 Ga
1, 47 S. E. 549; Whiting v.
VENDITIO
Lat. In the civil law. Ina strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the contract of sale, otherwise called “emptio venditto.” Inst. 3, 24. Calvin.
VENDITIONI EXPONAS
whether they be in truth so sick as that they cannot appear, or whether they do counterfeit. Cowell. lLat.: You expose to sale. ‘This is the name of a writ
VENDITOR
of execution, requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied upon goods under a fleri facies, but returned that’they remained unsold for want of buyera; and in some jurisdictions it is issued to ...
VENDITRIX
Lat. A female vendor.
VENIT ET DEFENDIT. UL
lat. Inc” The proper words of appearance and defense in an action. 1 Ld. Raym. 117,
VENTE
a& person is entitled to act, sui juris, as if he were of full age. Story, Confl. Laws, § 74. of sale. a —Vente a rémé6ré6. A conditional. sale, in
VENTER; VENTRE ¥200
-:{WENTER, VENTRE. The belly or
Ver
(or Verm.). Vermont Reports.
VERBA
Lat. (Plural of -tcrbum.) ‘Words. --Verba cancellaris. Words of the chancery. The technical style of writs framed in the office of chancery. Fleta, lib. 4. c. 10. § 3. Verba precaria, In the civil law. Precatory words...
VERBA ILLATA
Verba eqnuivoca, ac in dubie sensu posita, intelliguntur digniori et potem-
VERBA IN DIFFERENTI
Verba im differenti materia per yprius, mon per posterius, intelligenda sunt, ‘Words on a different subject are to be understood by what precedes, not by what comes after. A maxim of the civil law. Calvin.
VERBAL
they ought not to be drawn to a foreign ix- or prescribed by statute in particular cases.