Category: V

Lat Fines paid to the crown to defray the expenses of maintaining courts of justice.’ 3 Salk. 33. Vectigal, origine ipsa, jns Cresarnm et rcgum patrimoniale est. Dav. 12. Tribute, in its

Fit or suitable to be sold; capable of transfer by sale; merchautable.

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

Lat. Against In the title of a cause, the name of the plaintiff is put first, followed by the word “versus,” then the defendant’s name. Thus, “Fletcher versus Peck,” or “Fletcher against

Lat. I forbid. Tlie veto-power Is a power vested in the executive officer of some governments to declare bis refusal to assent to any bill or measure wbich has been passed by

Lat In Roman law. A sum- moner or apparitor; an officer who attended on the tribunes and rediles.

Lat The words “to-wit,” or “that is to say,” so frequently used in pleading, are technically called the “videlicet” or “scilicct;” and when any fact alleged in pleading is preceded by, or

An opprobrious epithet, Implying great moral delinquency, and equivalent to knave, rascal, or scoundrel. The word is libelous. 1 Bos. & P. 331.

Fr. In French law. Rape. Rar- ring. Ob. St. 139.

Lat. By virtue of his office. By the authority vested in him as the incumbent of the particular office.

Lat. In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which issues from a spring or fountain. Calvin.

Lat. We will; it is our will. The first word of a clause in the royal writs of protection and letters patent. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. Spurious children; literally, gotten from the people; the offspring of promiscuous cohabitation, who are considered as having no father. Inst. 3, 4, 3; Id. 3, 5, 4.

Lat. In the civil law. Goods without an owner, or in which no one claims a property; escheated goods. Inst 2, 6, 4; 1 Bl. Comm. 298.

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

A Spanish-American measure of length, equal to 33 English inches or a trifle more or less, varying according to local usage. See U. S. v. Perot 98 U. S. 428, 25 L

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

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

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,

Everything bearing green leaves in a forest. Also that power which a man has, by royal grant, to cut green wood iu a forest. Also, iu heraldry, green color, called “ve- nus”