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42.—Le roy (or la reine) le veut. The king (or the queen) wills ‘it. The form of the royal assent to public bills in par 44.
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TRANSGRESSIVE TRUST
TRANSHIPMENT. In maritime law. The act of taking the cargo out of one ship and loading it in another.
Tread
(or Tread. Oonst. [S. OC. ]). Treadway’s South Carolina Constitutional Reports. Tred. Tredgold’s Reports, Cape Colony. Tri. Bish. Trial of ‘the Seven Bishops. Tri. E. of Cov. Trial of the Earl of Coventry.
TRINITY MASTERS
TRIBUTE. A contribution which is raised by a prince or sovereign from his subjects to sustain the expenses of the state.
TURPIS
bars, for the purpose of taking toll, and of re- Lat. In the civil law. Base; mean; vile: disgraceful; infamous; unlawful. Applied both to things and persons. Calvin.
U.C.QA. B. 0.8
(or U.C.0.8.). Upper Canada Queen’s (King’s) Bench Reports, Old Series.
U.S. St
atL. United States Statutes at Large.
Ultra Vires
UL-truh VY-reez
Beyond the powers. An act performed without legal authority, exceeding the powers granted by law or by a company's memorandum of association.
Union Pac. Co
v. Buffalo County Com’rs, 9 Neb. 449, 4 N. W. 53; Brooke v. Philadelphia, 162 Pa. 123, 29 Atl. 387, 24 L. R. A. 781. —General fund. This phrase, in New York, is a collective designation of all the assets of the state which furnish the means for t...
VECTIGAL JUDICIARIUM
Lat. Fines paid to the crown to defray the expenses of maintaining courts of justice. 38
VERBAL
they ought not to be drawn to a foreign ix- or prescribed by statute in particular cases.
Vern. & Scr
(or Scriv.). Vernon «& Scriven’s Irish King’s Bench Reports.
VETERA STATUTA
Lat. Ancient statutes. The English statutes from Magna Charte to the end of the reign of Edward
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 qualified, according as the effec...
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.
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 the king, and having
VISARII
DRINKING-SHOP. A place where in-
VOCABULA ARTIS
subjects the party to the whole debts of the deceased. 2 Kames, Hq. 827. Lat. Words of art; technical terms.
W. 372, 61 Am. St. Rep
831. On the other band bestiality is the carnal copulation of a human being with a brute, or animal of the sub-human orders, of the opposite sex. It is not identical with sodomy, nor is it a form of sodomy, though the two terms are often confused in ...
W. 4655, Am. .§t. Rep
916.—Domestie courts. Those existing and having jurisdiction at the place of the party’s residence or domicile.
WARRANTIZARE
a declaration for him in an action at the sait of a person named, and thereupon to confess the same, or to suffer judgment to pass by default; and it also usually contains a release of errors. 2 Burrill, Pr. 239; Treat v. Tolman, 113 Fed. 892, 51 C. ...
WESTMINSTER THE SECOND. The
statute 18 Edw. I. St. 1, A. D. 1285, otherwise called the “Statute de Donis Conditionalibus.” See 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 10, p: 163. Certain parts of this act are repenled by St. 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64, and St. 26 & 27
WESTMINSTER THE THIRD, STAT
UTE OF. A statute passed in the eighteenth year of Edward I. More commonly known as the “Statute of Quia Emptores,” (g. v.)
Wharton.—Letters of slains
or slanes. Letters subscribed by the relatives of a person who had been slain, declaring that they had received an assythment, and concurring in an application to the crown for a pardon to the offender. These or other evidences of their concurrence w...
Whitehart
paid into the exchequer, imposed hy Henry III. upon Thomas de la Linda, for killing a beautiful white hart which that king before had spared in hunting. Camd.
Wilkins v. Tobacco Ins. Co., 30 Ohio St
339, 27 Am. Rep. 455.—_- Wager policy. An insur ance upon a subject-matter in which the party assured has no real, valuable, or insurable interest. A mere wager policy is that in which the party assared has no interest in the thing assured, and cou...
Wilson v. State, 34 Ohio St
200; O’Connor v. Press Pub. Co., 34 Misc. Rep. 564, 70 N. ¥. 199. The precinct of a parish church, and the particular charge of a secular priest. Cowell. An ecclesiastical division of a town or district, subject to the ministry of one pastor. Bra...
Winnett v. Adams, 71 Neb
817, 99 N. W. 681. Or, as otherwise defined, civil rights are rights appertaining to a person in virtue ‘Of his citizenship in a state or community. Rights capable of being enforced or redressed in a civil action. Also a term applied to certain rig...
Winward v. Lincoln, 23 R. I. 476, 51 Atl
106, 64 L. R. A. 160; Edson v. Pawlet, 22 Vt. 203; Woodcock v. McQueen, 11 Ind. 15.
World’s Columbian Exposition Co
v. Republic of France, 96 Fed. 693, 38 0. C. A. 483.