Category: V

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.

A member of a panel of jurors; a juror summoned by a writ of venire facias.

L. Lat. In Scotch law. Verging towards poverty; In declining circumstances. 2 Kames, Eq. 8.

In old English law. Profit of land. “How much the vesture of an acre is worth.” Oowell.

Capable of life. This term is applied to a newly-born infant, and especially to one prematurely born, which is not only born alive, but in such a state of organic de- velopment

In English law. A person authorized by law to keep a house of en- tertainment for the public; a publican. 9 Adol. & E. 423.

Lat. In the ecclesiastical courts, service of a decree or citation viis et modis, i. e., by all “ways and means” likely to affect the party with knowledge of its contents, is

The sanction of the laws, whereby it is signified what evil or penalty shall be incurred by such as commit any public wrongs, and transgress or neglect their duty. 1 Steph. Comm.

A writ for choice of a verderer in the forest. Reg. Orig. 177

In Scotch law. An unwarrantable intermeddling with the movable estate of a person deceased, without the order of law. Ersk. Prin. b. 3, tit 9,

Null; ineffectual; nugatory; having no legal force or binding effect; unable, in law, to support the purpose for which it was intended. “Void” does not always imply entire nullity; but it is,