Category: V

Hunting. CowelL

Something that is bought; ca-pable of being bought; offered tor sale; mercenary. Used in an evil sense, such pur-chase or sale belng regarded as corrupt and Ulegal

Beasts caught in tbe woods by hunting

The ofiice of dog-leader, or courser. Cowell

In old Engllsh law. A toll-booth. Cro. Jac. 122

Viewers; persons sent by the court to take a view of any place in qucs-tion, for the better decision of the right It signifies, also, such as are sent to view* those that essoin themselves de malo lecti. (i. e., excuse themselves on ground of illness

L. Fr. Distresses forbidden to be replevied; the refusing to let the owner have his cattle which were distrained. Kelham

See Fkhmobbicht

In Roman law. Customs-duties ; taxes paid upon the Importation or exportation of certain kinds of merchan-dlse. Cod. 4, 61

In maritime law. Freight

Lat. Fines paid to the crown to defray the ex-peuses of maintaining courts of justice. 8 Salk. 33

In old Lombardic law. The offense of stopping one on the way; fore-stalling. Spelman

The tenants of the man- * or of Bradford, in the county of wilts, paid a yearly rent by this name to their lord, in lieu of veal paid formerly in kind, wharton

The lauds that a vavasour held. Cowell

one who was in dignity next to a baron. Britt. 109; Bract, lih. 1, c. 8. one who held of a baron. Euc. Brit

In old European law. 8or-cery; witchcraft; the profession of the Van-do ls

L. Lat A waste or common lying open to the cattle of all tenants who have a right of coraiuoning. Cowell

The tenure or holding of a vassal. Cowell

The state or condition of a vassal

The operation of castra? tion as performed by section (cutting) of the vas deferens or spermatic cord; sometimes proposed as an inhibitory punishment for rapists and otber criminals

In old Scotch law. warranty

In pleading and practice. A discrepancy or disagreement between two Instruments or two steps in the same cause, which ought by law to be eutlrely consonant. Thus, if the evidence adduced by the plain-tiff does not agree with the allegations of hls declaration, it is a variance; and so if the statement of the cause […]

RS, or VIDAMES. An obso-. lete title of dignity next to a peer. 2 Inst

US. L. Lat. In old records. ? fore-footman. Spelman; CoweU

A person whose business Is to appraise or set a value upon property

The act of ascertaining the worth of a thing. Tbe estimated worth of a thing. See Lowenstein v. Schiffer, 38 App. Dlv. 178, 56 N. Y. Supp. 674; State v. Central Pac. R. Co., 7 Nev. 104; Sergeant v. Dwyer, 44 Mlnn. 309, 46 N. W. 444

In Engllsh law. A list of all the ratable hereditaments in a parish, showing the names of the occupier, the owner, the property, the extent of the prop-. erty, the gross estimated rental, nnd the ratable value; prepared by tbe overseers of each parish in a union under section 14 of the union assessment committee […]

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of binding force. A deed, will, or other instrument, which has received all the formalities required by law, is said to be valid

L. Lat. The value or price of anything

VALECT, or VADELET. In

In Spanish law. A promissory note, white, New Reeop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5, $ 3. See Govin v. De Miranda, 140 N. Y. 662, 35 N. E. 628

A wandering, idle person; a strolling or sturdy beggar. A general term, including, in English law, the seyeral classes of idle and disorderly persons, rogues, and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues. 4 Steph. Comm. 308, 309

one that wanders about, and has no certain dwelling; an idle fellow. Jacob

Lat’ A pledge; security hy pledge of property. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913

L. Lat. In old English law. To wage or gage the duellum; to wage battel; to glve pledges mutually for engaging in the trial by combat

Lat In Roman law. Ball or security; the glving of bail for ap-pearance in court; a recognizance. Calvin

Lat In the civU law. Pledges; sureties; bail; security for the appearance of a defendant or accused person in court Calvin

Lat In the civil law. Emp-ty; void; vacant; unoccupied. Calvin

Inoculation with vac-cine or the virus of cowpox as a preventive against the smallpox; frequently made com-pulsory by statute. See Daniel v. Putnam County, US Ga. 570, 38 S. E. 980, 54 L. R. A. 292

Lat The vacant possession, i. e., free and unburdened possession, which (e. g.) a vendor had and has to give to a purchaser of lands

In old English law. A dairy-house. Co. Litt 5b

An avoidance of an eccle-siastical benefice. Cowell

Lat. Let lt be vacated. In practlce, a rule or order by which a proceeding is vacated; a vacating

Lat In the civil law. Ex-emptlon; immunity; privilege; dlspensatlon; exemption from tbe burden of office. Calvin

That period of time between the end of one term of court and the beginning of another. See Von Schmidt v. widber, 99 Cal. 511, 34 Pac. 109; Conkling v. Ridgely, 112 111. 36, 1 N. E. 261, 54 Am. Rep. 204; Brayman v. whltcomb, 134 Mass. 525; State v. Derkum, 27 Mo. App. 628

To annul; to cancel or rescind ; to render an act void; as, to vacate an entry of record, or a judgment

Lat In the civil law. Goods withont an owner, or in which no one claims a property; escheated goods. Inst. 2, 6, 4; 1 Bl. Comm. 298

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See Possession