VERTICAL MERGER
When companies that make different elements of a product join forces. This is done when one company wants to control much of the process. Refer to conglomerate and horizontal merger.
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When companies that make different elements of a product join forces. This is done when one company wants to control much of the process. Refer to conglomerate and horizontal merger.
Lat. In the civil law. Pledges; sureties; bail; security for the appearance of a defendant or accused person in court Calvin.
The act of ascertainiug the worth of a thing. The estimated worth of a thing. See Lowenstein v. Schiller, 38 App. Div. 178, 50 N. Y. Supp. 074; State v. Central Pac.
In old European law. Sorcery ; witchcraft; the profession of the Vau- dois.
Somethiug that is bought; capable of being bought; offered for sale; mer- cenary. Used in an evil sense, such purchase or sale being regarded as corrupt and illegal.
Lat. In practice. A judicial writ, directed to the sheriff of the county in which a cause is to be tried, commanding him that he “cause to come” before tbe court, on
In Saxon law. A mulct or fine for a crime. See WEREGILD.
In old English law. The vesture of the land; that is, the corn, grass, underwood, sweepage, and the like. Co. Litt 46. See Simpson v. Coe, 4 N. H. 301.
Lat In the civil law. Way; a road; a right of way. The right of walking, riding, and driving over another’s land. Inst. 2, 3, pr. A species of rural servitude, which
Anything that belongs to the sheriffs, as vicontiel writs; i. e., such as are triable iu the sheriffs court As to vicontiel rents, see St. 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 99,
Lat. Strength; virtue; force; efficiency. Proprio vigore, by its own force. VIIS ET MODIS1208 VINDEX
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.
Lat. A pure virgin.
To litigate cavilously, vexatiously, or from merely quarrelsome motives.
Lat. In the civil and old English law. I call; I summon; I vouch. In jus voco tc, I summon you to court; I summon you before the pnetor. The formula by
The Gallic ing one who has warranted lands, by the par- n ty warranted, to come and defend the suit for him. Co. Litt. 1016. Vox emissa volat; lit era scripta ma-
L. Lat. In old English law. To wage or gage the duellum; to wage battel; to give pledges mutually for engaging in the trial by combat.
The utility of an object in satisfying, directly or indirectly, the needs or desires of human beings, called by economists “value in use;” or its worth consisting in the power of purchasing
The lands that a vavasour held. CowelL VAVASOUR 1198 VENDITIONI EXPONAS
Beasts caught In the woods by hunting.