Category: V

In old Scotch law. Ward; custody; guardianship. Answering to “war- da,” in old English law. Spelman.

In maritime law. Freight

In old European law. A tax upon things sold in markets and public fairs. Spelman.

The belly or womb. The term Is used In law as designating the maternal parentage of children. Thus, where in ordinary phraseology we should say that A. was R.’s child by his

Truth; truthfulness; conformity to fact. The records of a court “import uncontrollable verity.” 1 Black, Judgm. { 276.

A phrase including all things, trees excepted, which grow upon the surface of the land, and clothe it externally. Ham. N. P. 151.

Capable of life. This term is applied to a newly-born infant, and especially to one prematurely born, which is not only born alive, but in such a state of organic de- velopment

Lat In the civil law. Sustenance; support; the means of living.

In old English law, this word was used to signify the parts into which a hun- dred or wapentake was divided. It also signifies a town or city.

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.

A yard-land.

The regard- er’s office in the forest. Manw. 1. 195.

Lat Words of art; technical terms. YOCABULA ARTIUM 1212 VOLUNTARY Vocabula artium explicanda sunt secundum definitiones prudentum. Terms of arts are to be explained according to tbe definitions of the learned or

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

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

L. Lat The value or price of anything. VALESHERIA. In old English law. The proving by the kindred of the slain, one on the father’s side, and another on that of the

In old Scotch law. A warren. Answering to “warenna,” in old English law. Spelman.

The word “vehicle” includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on laud. Rev. St. U. S. 5 4 (U.

Lat In the civil law. In a strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the contract of sale, otherwise called “emptio vendition Inst. 3. 24. Calvin. In a large sense. Any mode

In old English law. A writ that lay for an heir presumptive, to cause an examination to be made of the widow in order to determine whether she were pregnant or not,