Category: V

In pleading and practice. A discrepancy or disagreement between two instruments or two steps iu the same cause, which ought by law to be entirely consonant Thus, if the evidence adduced by

See FEHHGERICIIT.

Lat A seller; a vendor. Inst. 3, 24; Bract fol. 41.

Lat. (Plural of verbum.) Words.

A ship, brig, sloop, or other craft used in navigation. The word is more comprehensive than “ship.” The word “vessel” includes every description of water-craft or other artificial contriv- ances used, or

Lat. A vexed question; a question often agitated or discussed, but not determined or settled: a question or point which has been differently de- termined, and so left doubtful. 7 Coke, 45b;

A fault, defect, or imperfection. In the civil law, redhibitory vices are such faults or imperfections in the subject-matter of a sale as will give the purchaser the right Sto return the

Widowhood.

A servile kind of tenure belonging to lands or tenements, whereby the tenant was bound to do all such services as the lord commanded, or were fit for a vil- lein to

Lat A man, especially as marking the sex. In the Latin phrases and maxims of the old English law, this word generally means “husband,” the expression i-ir et uxor corresponding to the

An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on his journey. Webster.

In English law. A place for keeping wild animals alive, including fishes; a fish pond, park, or warren.

In conveyancing, one who holds a title under a voluntary conveyance, i. e., one made without consideration, good or valuable, to support it. A person who gives his services without any express

Lat Let it be vacated. In practice, a rule or order by which a proceeding is vacated; a vacating.

was anciently a name denoting young gentlemen of rank and family, but afterwards applied to those of lower degree, and is now used for a menial servant, more particularly occupied about the

In old Scotch law. Warranty.

In mining law. A body of mineral or mineralized rock, filling a seam or fissure in the earth’s crust, within defined boundaries in the general mass of the mountain, and having a

Lat A female vendor. Cod. 4, 51, 3.

Parol; by word of mouth; oral; as. verbal agreement, verbal evidence; or written, but not signed, or not executed with the formalities required for a deed VERBAL 15 or prescribed by statute

The crop on the ground. Cowell.