Category: V

Lat In the civil law. Spurious children; literally, gotten from the people; the offspring.of promiscuous cohabitation, wbo are considered as having no father. Inst. 3, 4, 3; Id. 3, 5, 4

Lat In the civil law. Spurious children; bastards

Lat In old English law. Common purgation; a name given to the trial by ordeal, to distinguish lt from the canonical purgation, which was by the oath of the party. 4 Bl. Comm. 342

In maritime law. The pass-ing of a vessel by sea from one place, port, or country to another. The term is held to Include the enterprise entered upon, and not merely the route. Friend v. Insurance Co., 113 Mass. 326

Seaweed. It is used in great quantities by the inhabitants of Jersey and Guernsey for manure, and also for fuel by the poorer classes

In Scotch practice. An emphatic or essential word. 2 Aiis. Crim. Pr. 280

To call upon; to call in to war-ranty; to call upon the grantor or warrantor to defend the title to au estate

Lat. A vow or promise. Dies votorum, the wedding day. Fleta 1. 1, c. 4

In the

one who has the right of glv-ing hls voice or suffrage

In conveyancing, one

LaL Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feel-ing or impulse which prompts the commls-sion of an act; hut ln old English law the term was often used to denote a will, that ls, the last will and testament of a decedent, more properly called tcstamentum

Free; without compulsion or solicitation

Lat we will; it is our will. The first word of a clause in the royal writs of protection and letters pateut. Cow-ell

A voluntary

Lat In the civil law. A volume; so called from its form, being rolled up

Lat willing. He is said to be willing who either expressly consents or tacitly makes no opposition. Calvin

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

Fr. Carriage; transportation by carriage

The act of emptying; ejection from a benefice

That may he avoided, or declared void; not absolutely void, or void ln itself. Most of the acts of infants are voidable only, and not absolutely void. 2 Kent, Comm. 234. See Void

Null; ineffectual; nugatory; hav-lng uo legal force or binding effect; unable, in law, to support the purpose for which it was intended

Lat. In old English law. outcry; hue and cry. Cowell

Lat In the civil and old Eng-llsh law. I call; I summon; I vouch. In jus voco te, I summon you to court; I sum-mon you before the pnetor. The formula by which a Roman action was anciently commenced. Adams, Rom. Ant. 242

In feudal law. To summon to court Feud. Lib. 2, tit 22

See Vadium

Lat words of art; technical terms

In English law. A place for keeping wild animals alive, including fishes; a fish pond, park, or warren

Lat. In the civil law. An inclosed place, where live wild anlmuls are kept Calvin; Spelman

Lat. In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which is-sues from a spring or fountain. Calvin

Lat Cattle, which obtained this name from being received during the Saxon period as money upon most occasions, at certain regulated prices. Cowell

LaL In the civil law. A step-father; a mother’s second husband. Cal-vin

In old English law. The fault or mistake of a writer or copyist; a clerical error. Gilb. Forum Rom. 185

In old English law. The mistake of a clerk; a clerical error

In Scotch law. An unwarrantable intermeddling with the movable estate of a person deceased, without the order of law. Ersk. Prln. b. 3, tlt 9, | 25. The Irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which

To impair; to make void or voidable; to cause to fail of force or effect; to destroy or annul, either entirely or ln part, the legal efficacy and binding force of an act or instrument; as wben it ls said that fraud vitiates a contract

To litigate cavilously, vexatlously, or from merely quarrelsome motives

Lat. In old Engllsh practice. View; inspection, either of a place or per-son

L. Fr. The neighborhood; vlc-lnage; venue. Ex parte McNeeley, 36 W. Va. 84, 14 S. E 436, 15 L. It. A. 226, 32 Am. St Rep. 831; State v. Kemp, 34 Minn. 61, 24 N. W. 349

The regard-er*s office in the forest. Manw. i. 195

In English law. Books compiled by the heralds, when prog-resses were solemnly and regularly made Into every part of the kingdom, to Inquire into the state of families, and to register such marriages and descents as were verified to them upon oath; they were allowed to be good evidence of pedigree. 3 Bl. Comm. 106; […]

An inspector of the government of corporations, or bodies politic. 1 Bl. Comm. 482

Inspection; superintend-ence; direction; regulation. A power giv-en hy law to the founders of ail eleemosy

In international law. The right of visit or visitation is the right of a cruiser or war-ship to stop a vessel sailing under another flag on the high seas, and send an officer to such vessel to ascertain whether her nationality is what it purports to be. It is exercisable only wben suspicious circumstances attend […]

An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears lt is permitted to proceed on his Journey, webster

An official indorsement upon a document, passport, commercial book, etc., to certify that it has been examined and found correct or in due form

A decree of English nobil-ity, next below that of earl

Lat. By virtue of his office. By the authority vested ln him as the incumbent of the particular office

Lat By virtue whereof. This was the clause in a pleading justifying an entry upon land, by which the party alleged that it was ln virtue of an order from one entitled that he entered, wharton

The privy members of a man, to cut off which was felony by the common law, though the party consented to it Bract. 1. 3, 144; Cowell