Verberg, 78 Mich
578, 44 N. W. 579, 7 L. BR.
Terms beginning with "V" (152 total)
VEREDIOTUM
L. Lat. In old English
VERGENS AD INOPIAM
L. Lat. In Scotch law. Verging towards poverty; in deciining circumstances. 2 Kames, Eq. &.
VERGERS
known,” that is, one which leaves open either the question whether any crime was committed ‘or the identity of the criminal.—Partial verdict. In criminal law, a verdict by which the jury acquit the defendant as to ...
Vermilyea, 6 Cow
(N. Y.) 681; Mandeville v.
Vermont ;—Shirley’s Reports, vols
49-55 New Hampshire;—Sheldon’s Buffalo, New York, Superior Court Reports;—Shepherd's Re ports, Alabama;—Shipp’s Reports, vols. 66, 67 -North Carolina ;—Shand’s Reports, vols. 11-44 South Carolina ;—Shadfo...
Vern. & Scr
(or Scriv.). Vernon «& Scriven’s Irish King’s Bench Reports.
VERNA
Lat. In the civil law. born in his master’s house.
VERSARI
Lat. In the civil law. To be employed; to be conversant. Versari male in tutcla, to misconduct one’s self in a guardianship. Calvin.
VERSUS
Lat. Against. In the title of a ‘cause, the name of the plaintiff is put first, followed by the word “versys,” then the defendant’s name. Thus, “Fletcher versus Peck,’ or “Metcher against Peck.” The word ...
VERY LORD AND VERY TENANT
They that are immediate lord and tenant one to another. Cowell.
Ves
108; Cummings v. Cummings, 146 Mass. 501, 16 N. BE. 401; Swasey v. Jaques, 144 399.
Ves. Sen
(or Sr.). Vesey, Sr.’s, English Chancery Reports.
VEST
VERITY. Truth; truthfulness; conformity to fact. The records of a court “import uncontrollable verity.” 1 Black, Judgm. § 276. present fixed right of future enjoyment.
VESTIGIUM
Lat. In the law of evidence, a vestige, mark, or sign; a trace, track, or impression left by a physical object.
VETERA STATUTA
Lat. Ancient statutes. The English statutes from Magna Charte to the end of the reign of Edward
VETITUM NAMIUM
L. Lat. Where the bailiff of a lord distrains beasts or guods of another, and the lord forbids the bailiff to deliver them when the sheriff comes to make replevin, the owner of the cattle may demand satisfaction in placi...
VETO
Lat. I forbid. The veto-power is a power vested in the executive officer of some governments to declare his refusal té assent to any bill or measure which has been passed by the legislature. It is either absolute or qua...
VETUS JUS
Lat. The old law. A term used in the civil law, sometimes to designate the law of the Twelve Tables, and sometimes merely a law which was in force previous to the passage of a subsequent law. Calvin.
VEXARI
Lat. To be harassed, vexed, or annoyed; to be prosecuted; as in the maxim, Nemo debet bie verari pro una et cadem causa, nO One should be twice prosecuted for one and the same cause.
VEXATA QUZSTIO
Lat.: A vexed question; a question often agitated or discussed, but not determined or settled: a question or point which has been differently determined, and so left doubtful. 7 Coke, 450; 8 Burrows, 1547.
VI AUT CLAM
Lat. In the civil law.
VI BONORUM RAPTORUM
Lat. In the civil law. Of goods taken away by force. The name of an action given by the preetor as a remedy for the violent taking of anotber’s property. Inst. 4, 2; Dig. 47, &
VIA
Lat. Im the civil law. Way; a road; a right of way. The right of walking, riding, and driving over another's land. Inst. 2, 3, pr. A species of rural servitude, which included iter {a footpath) and actus, (a driftway.) 7
VIATOR
Lat. In Roman law. A sunmoner or apparitor; an officer who attended on the tribunes and ediles.
VICAR
is called a “rector.” Wharton. See Pinder v. Barr, 4 El. & Bl. 115.
Vicat
(or Vicat. Voc. Jur.). Vocabularfum jurisutriusque, ex variis editis.
VICE
Lat. In the place or stead. Vice mea, in my place.
VICE-COMES NON MISIT BREVE
The sheriff hath not sent the writ. The form of continuance on the record after issue and before trial. 7 Mod. 349; 11 Mod. 281.
VICIS ET VENELLIS MUNDANDIS
An ancient writ against the mayor or bailiff of a town, etc., for the clean keeping of their streets and lanes. Reg. Orig. 267.
Vict
was passed for the punishment of 112, passed to abolish satisfied outstanding terms of years in land. By this act, terms which shall henceforth become attendant upon the inheritance, either by express declaration or con...
Vict, ¢c
30, the office of secondary was abolished.
VICTUS
Lat. In the civil law. Sue tenance; support; the means of living.
VIDAME
Officer, in point of rank, in the executive branch of the government of the United States.—Viceprincipal. See PRINCIPAL.—Vice versa. Jonversely; in inverted order; in reverse manner.
VIDE
whom they represented, although the lands held by virtue of their fiefs might be situated elsewhere. Brande; Burrill. Lat. A word of reference. Vide ante, or vide supra, refers to a previous passage, vide post, or vide ...
VIDELICET
Lat. The words “to-wit,” or “that is to say,” so frequently used in pleading, are technically called the “videlfcet” or “sctlicet ;” and when any fact alleged in pleading is preceded by, or accompanied wi...
VIDUA REGIS
Lat. In old English law. A king’s widow. The widow of a tenant in capite. So called, because she was not allowed to marry a second time without the king’s permission; obtaining her dower also from the assignment of t...
VIE
Fr. Life; occurring in the phrases cestui que vie, pur autre vie, ete.
VIF-GAGE
L. Fr. In old English law. A vivum vadium or living pledge, as distinguished from a mortgage or dead pledge. Properly, an estate given as security for a debt, the debt to be satisfied out of the rents, issues, and profit...
Vignos, 15 Ill
186; Poor v. Poor, 8 N. H. 307, 29 Am. Dec. 664; Goodrich v. Goodrich, 44 Ala. 670; Bailey v. Bailey, 97 Mass. 873; Close v. Close, 25 N. J. Eq. 526; Cole v. Cole, 23 Iowa, 433; Turner v. Turner, 122 Iowa, 113. 97 N. W. ...
VIGOR
those openings which are made rather for the admission of light than to look out of. Lat. Strength; virtue; force; efficiency. Proprio vigore, by i{ts.own force.
VIII. « 6
HAGNEBUT. A hand-gun of a larger description than the hagne. St. 2 &'8 Edw. VI.c.14;4&5P.&M.c 2.
VIIL ¢ 24
HOSPITATOR. A host or entertainer.
Vilas, 24 Wis
171, 1 Am. Rep. 168; Galpin v.
VILLA REGIA
Lat. In Saxon law. A royal residence. Spelman.
VILLANIS REGIS SUBTRACTIS
REDUCENDIS. A writ that lay for the bringing back of the king’s bondmen, that had heen carried away by others out of his manors whereto they belonged. Reg. Orig. 87.
VINCULUM JURIS
Lat. In the Roman law, an obligation is defined as a rinculum juris, 4. e., “a bond of law,” whereby one party becomes or is bound to another to do something according to law.
VINDEX
nexed td the manor of land; a serf.—Villein services. Base services, such as villeins performed. 2 BI. Comm. 938. They were not, however, exclusively confined to villeins. since they might be performed by freemen, with...
VINDICARE
' VINDICARE. Lat. In the civil law. To claim, or challenge; to demand one’s own; to assert a right in or to a thing; to assert or claim a property in a thing; to claim & thing as one’s own. Calvin.
VINDICATIO
Lat. In. the civil law. The claiming a thing as one’s own; the asserting of a right or title in or to a thing.