Category: V

Lat. The old law. A term used iu the civil law, sometimes to designate the law of the Twelve Tables, and sometimes merely a law which was in force previous to the

One who performs the functions of another; a substitute. Also the incumbent of an appropriated or impropriated ecclesiastical benefice, as distinguished from the in- cumbent of a nou-appropriated benefice, who VIOAR 1206

An inspeximus, (q. v.) Barring, Ob. St. 5.

A writ that lay for the bringing back of the king’s bondmen, that had been carried away by others out of his manors whereto they belonged. Reg. Orig. 87.

Injury; Infringement; breach of right, duty, or law. Ravishment; seduction. The statute 25 Edw. III. St. 5, c. 2, enacts that any person who shall violate the king’s companion shall be guilty

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.