Category: V

Persons who are appointed by a court to make an investigation of certain matters, or to examine a particular locality, (as, the proposed site of a new road,) and to report to

See A VINCULO MATRIMONII; DIVORCE.

In old English law. A yard-land; a measure of land of variable quantity, containing in some places twenty, in others twenty-four, In others thirty, and in others forty, acres. Cowell; Co. Litt

An inspector of the government of corporations, or bodies politic. 1 Bl. Comm. 482. Visitor is an inspector of the government of a corporation, etc. The ordinary is visitor of spiritual corporations.

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

In the houses of parliament the clerks at the tables make brief entries of all that is actually done; aud these minutes, which are printed from day to day for the use

Inoculation with vaccine or tbe virus of cowpox as a preventive against the smallpox; frequently made compulsory by statute. See Daniel v. Putnam County, 113 Ga. 570, 38 S. E. 9S0, 54

L. Lat. The value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first fruits aud tenths are collected and paid. It is commonly called the “king’s books,” by which the

The state or condition of a vassal.

Lat Is it your will and pleasure, Romans? The form of proposing a law to the Roman people. Tayl. Civil Law, 155. Velle non creditnr qni obsequitnr im- perio patris vel domini.

An auctioneer.

Sax. In old records. A packet-boat or transport vessel. Cowell.

In English law. An order which may be granted by the chancery division of the high court of justice, (and formerly by chancery,) passing the legal estate in lieu of a conveyance.

Lat. In the civil law. By force or covertly. Dig. 43, 24.

The neighborhood; vicinage; the venue. Co. Litt 1S56. Vicini viciniora praesumuntur scire. 4 Inst. 173. Persons living in the neighborhood are presumed to kuow the neighbor- hood.

L. Fr. In old English law. A vivum vadium or living pledge, as distin- guished from a mortgage or dead pledge. Properly, an estate given as security for a debt, the debt

Lat. In tbe Roman law, au obligation is defined as a vinculum juris, i. e., “a bond of law,” whereby one party becomes or is bound to another to do something according

In old English law. The verge; the bounds of the king’s household, within which the court of the steward had jurisdiction. Crabb, Eng. Law, 185.

L. Fr. The neighborhood; vicinage; venue. Ex parte McNeeley, 36 W. Va. 84, 14 S. E. 436, 15 L. B. A. 220, 32 Am. St. Bep. 831; State v. Kemp, 34 Minn.

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