VINDICATORY PARTS OF LAWS
The sanction of the laws, whereby it is signified what evil or penalty shall be incurred by such as commit any public wrongs, and transgress or neglect their duty. 1
Terms beginning with "V" (152 total)
Vineland Irr. Dist
v. Azusa Irr. Co., 126 Cal. 486, 58 Pac. 1057, 46 L. R. A. 820; Los An-
VIOL
Fr. In French law. Rape. Barring, Ob. St. 139.
VIR
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 uzor corresponding to the law French baron et feme.
VIRES
Vires acquirit eundo. It gains strength by continuance. Mann v. Mann’s Ex’rs, }
VIRES. [Lat
(The plural of “ris.’’) Powers; forces; capabilities; natural powers; powers granted or limited. See ULtra
VIRGA
metaphorically, the mind) with a great degree of force.
VIRGA TERRZ, (qr VIRGATA TER
RZ.) In old English law. <A yard-land; a measure of land of variable quantity, containing in some places twenty, in others twenty-four, in others thirty, and in others forty,-acres. Cowell; Co. Litt. 5q.
Virgin
jVirgin’s Reports, vols. Maine ;—Virginia (see Va.). — Viz. Videlicet (that is to say). Vo. Verbdo.
Virginia ;—White’s Reports, vols
30-40 Texas Court of Appeals:—White, Scotch Justiciary Reports.
VIRTUTE OFFICIE
Lat. By virtue of his office. By the authority vested in him as the incumbent of the particular office.
Vis
Lat. Any kind of force, violence, or disturbance relating to a man’s person or his property.
Vis legibus est inimica
8 Inst. 176. Violence is inimical to the laws.
VISARII
DRINKING-SHOP. A place where in-
VISITATION
force used to thrust out another. Force used between two contending claimants of possession, the one endeavoring to thrust out the other. Calvin—Vis fluminis. In the civil law. The force of a river; the force exerted b...
VISITATION BOOKS
nary corporations. 2 Kent, Comm. 300-303 ; 1 Bl. Comm. 480, 481. In England, the visitation of ecclesiastical corporations belongs to the ordinary. Id. See Trustees of Union
VISNE
L. Fr. The neighborhood; vicmage; venue. Ex parte McNeeley, 36 W.
Vista Freestone Co
vy. Parrish, 34 W. Va. 652, 12 S. B. 817.
VISUS
Lat. In old English practice. View; inspection, either of a place or person. '
Viterbo v
Friedlander, 120 U. 8. 707, 7 Sup.
VITRICUS
Lat. In the civil law. A step-father; a mother’s second husband. Calvin.
VIVA AQUA
Lat. In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which issues from a spring or fountain. Calvin.
VIVA PECUNIA
Lat. Cattle, which obtained this name from belng received during the Saxon period as money upon most occasions, at certain regulated prices. Cowell.
VIVA VOOE
Lat. With the living voice; by word of mouth. As applied to the examination of witnesses, this phrase is equivalent to “orally.” It is used in contradistinction to evidence on affidavits or depositions. As descriptiv...
VIVARIUM
Lat. In the civil law. An inclosed place, where live wild animals are kept. Calvin; Spelman. —
VIVUM VADIUM. See VADIUM
Viz ulla lex fieri potest qus omnibus commoda sit, sed si majori parti prospiciat, utilis est. Scarcely any law can be made which is adapted to all, but, if it pro-
VLZ SERVITUS
over another’s land.
VOCABULA ARTIS
subjects the party to the whole debts of the deceased. 2 Kames, Hq. 827. Lat. Words of art; technical terms.
VOCABULA ARTIUM
Vocabula artium explicanda sunt se~ ecundum definitiones pradentum. Terms of arts are to be explained according to the definitions of the learned or skilled [in such arts.) Bl. Law Tracts, 6.
VOCATIO IN JUS
Lat. A summoning to court. In the earlier practice of the Roman law, (under the legis actiones,) the creditor orally called upon his debtor to go with him before the prietor for the purpose of determining their controver...
Voet, Com
ad Pand. I. 22, tit. 3, n. 14. ad Pand. rius ad Pandectas. . Vr. Vroom’s New Jersey Reports. Vroom (G. D.W.). G. D. W. Vroom’s Reports, vols. 36-83 New Jersey Law. Vroom (A.D.). P. D. Vroom’s Reports, vols. 30-35 ...
VOIR DIRE
L. Fr. To speak the truth. This phrase denotes the preliminary examination which the court may make of one presented as a witness or juror. where his competency, interest, etc., is objected to.
VOITURE
Fr. tion by carriage.
VOLENS
Lat. Willing. He is said to be willing who either expressly consents or tacitly makes no opposition. Calvin.
Volfer, 106 Ala
205, 17 South. 525, 28 L. R. A. 707, 54 Am. St. Rep. 31—Contingent trust. An express trust may depend for its oneration upon a future event. and is then a “contingent” trust. A direct trust is an express trvst. as ...
VOLUMEN
Lat. In the civil law. A volume; so called from its form, being rolied up.
VOLUMUS
Lat. We will; it is our will. The first word of a clause in the royal writs of protection and letters patent. Cowell.
VOLUNTARY
Void in part, void in toto. Leavitt, 15 N. Y. 9, 96. sion or solicitation. As to voluntary “Answer,” “Assignment,” “Bankruptcy,” “Confession,” “Conveyance,” “Deposit,” “Escape,” “Jurisdict...
Voluntary Relief Dept
v. White, 41 Neb. 547, 59 N. W. 747, 43 Am. St. Rep. 701.—Time immémorial.: Time whereof the memory of a man is not to the.contrary,—Time of mem4 ory. In English law. Time commencing from the pee tane ce the reign o...
VOLUNTAS
Lat. Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feeling or impulse which prompts the commission of an act; but in old English law the term was often used to denote a will, that Is, the last will and te...
VOOCIFERATIO
Lat. In old English law. Outcry; hue and cry. Cowell.
VOTUM
Lat. A vow or promise. Dies votorum, the wedding day. Fleta 1. 1, c. 4.
VOUCHEE
nor to any compensation for injuries sustained by him in performing what he has undertaken. Sweet. Also one who officiously pays the debt of another. See Irvine v. Angus, 93 Ked. 633, 85 C. OG A. 501; Arnold v. Green, 11...
VOUCHER
VOUCHER. A receipt, acquittance, or release, which may serve as evidence of payment or discharge of a debt, or to certify the correctness of accounts. An account-book containing the acquittances or receipts showing the a...
Vt
477, 9 Atl. 4, 59 Am. Rep. 742; Magann 463; Easly v. Eakin, Cooke (Tenn.) 388. 605, 15 Atl. 300, 1 L. R. A. 187: ey & Casualty Co. v. Cutts, 95 Me. 162, 49 Atl. 673.—A.e ble muisamee. Anything in- 351; Com. v. Willi...
VULGARIS PURGATIO
Lat. In old Wnglish law. Common purgation; a name given to the trial by ordeal, to distinguish it from the canonical purgation, which was by the oath of the party. 4 Bl. Comm. 342.
VULGO CONCEPTI
Lat. In the civil law. Spurious children; bastards.
VULGO QUZSITI
Lat. In the civil law. Spurious children; literally, gotten from the people; the offspring of promiscuous cohabitation, who are considered as having no father. Inst. 3, 4,8; Id. 3, 5, 4.
Vv. Bodemer, 1 38 Ill
586, 29 N. E. 692, 32
Vv. Rweet
124 Mich. 311, S2 N. W. 1061. .A