Category: V

Lat To be harassed, vexed, or annoyed; to be prosecuted; as in the maxim, Xcmo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa, no one should be twice prosecuted for one and

eto. An ancient writ for a spiritual person imprisoned, upon forfeiture Q of a recoguizance, etc. Reg. Orig. 147. Vicarins non habet vicarium. A deputy has not [cannot have] a deputy. A

Lat The making a solemn profession to live a sole and chaste woman.

A person attached to a manor, who was substantially in the condition of a slave, who performed the base and servile work upon the manor for the lord, and was, in most

Characterized or caused by violence; severe; assailing the person (and metaphorically, the mind) with a great degree of force.

A decree of English nobility, next below that of earl. An old title of the sheriff.

Lat In the civil law. An inclosed place, where live wild animals are kept Calvin; Spelman.

Lat Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feeling or impulse which prompts the commission of an act; but in old English law the term was often used to

That period of time between the end of one term of court and the beginning of another. See Von Schmidt v. Widber, 99 Cal. 511, 34 Pac. 109; Colliding v. Ridgely, 112

L. Lat The value or price of anything. VALESHERIA. In old English law. The proving by the kindred of the slain, one on the father’s side, and another on that of the

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