Category: V

Lat Any kind of force, violence, or disturbance relating to a man’s person or his property.

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

A voluntary madman. A term applied by Lord Coke to a drunkard, who has voluntarily contracted madness by intoxication. Co. Litt 247; 4 Bl. Comm. 25.

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

In Spanish law. A promissory note. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5,

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

In maritime law. Freight

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 pleading and practice. A neighborhood; the neighborhood, place, or county in which an injury is declared to have been doue, or fact declared to have hap- pened. 3 Bl. Comm. 204.

Lat. True; truthful; genuine; actual; real; just.

To harass, disquiet, annoy; as by repeated litigation upon the same facts.

Petty or small tithes payable to the vicar. 2 Steph. Comm. 681.

Lat. In old English law. A king’s widow. The widow of a tenant in capite. So called, because she was not allowed to marry a second time without the king’s permission; obtaining

In old English law. Villein service. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 13,

The term “violence” is synonymous with “physical force,” and the two are used interchangeably, iu relation to assaults, by elementary writers on criminal law. State v. Wells, 31 Conn. 212.

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

I.at. With the living voice; by word of mouth. As applied to the examination of witnesses, this phrase is equivalent to “orally.” It is used in contra- distinction to evidence on affidavits

Free; without compulsion or solicitation. Without consideration; without valuable consideration; gratuitous.

Lat In the civil law. Exemption ; immunity; privilege; dispensation; exemption from the burden of office. Calvin.

In old English law. A young gentleman; also a servitor or gentleman of the chamber. Cowell.