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VISITATION

Inspection; superintendence ; direction; regulation. A power given by law to the founders of all eleemosy VISITATION BOOKS 1211 VOCABULA ARTI9 nary corporations. 2 Kent, Comm. 300-303; 1 Bl. Comm. 480, 481.

VIZ

A contraction for videlicet, to-wit namely, that is to say.

VOTER

One who has the right of giving his voice or suffrage.

VACCARIA

In old English law. A dairy-house. Co. Litt 56.

VALIDITY

This term Is used to signify legal sufficiency, in contradistinction to mere regularity. “An official sale, an order, judgment, or decree may be regular,

VASSAL

In feudal law. A feudal tenant or grantee; a feudatory; the holder of a fief on a feudal tenure, and by the obligation of performing feudal services. The correlative term was “lord.”

VELABRUM

In old English law. A toll-booth. Cro. Jac. 122.

VENDUE

A sale; generally a sale at public auction; and more particularly a sale so made under authority of law, as by a constable, sheriff, tax collector, administrator, etc.

VERDICT

Iu practice. The formal and unanimous decision or finding of a jury, im- paneled and sworn for the trial of a cause, upon the matters or questions duly submitted to thein upon

VESTIGIUM

Lat. In the law of evidence, a vestige, mark, or sign; a trace, track, or impression left by a physical object. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 25,

VEXED QUESTION

A question or point of law often discussed or agitated, but not determined or settled.

VICINAGE

Neighborhood; near dwelling; vicinity. 2 Bl. Comm. 33; Cowell. In modern usage, it means the county where a trial is had, a crime committed, etc. See State v. Crinklaw, 40 Neb. 759,

VIEWERS

Persons who are appointed by a court to make an investigation of certain matters, or to examine a particular locality, (as, the proposed site of a new road,) and to report to

VIRGA TEBBX, (or VIRGATA TER-

In old English law. A yard-land; a measure of land of variable quantity, containing in some places twenty, in others twenty-four, In others thirty, and in others forty, acres. Cowell; Co. Litt

VISITOR

An inspector of the government of corporations, or bodies politic. 1 Bl. Comm. 482. Visitor is an inspector of the government of a corporation, etc. The ordinary is visitor of spiritual corporations.

VOCABULA ARTIS

Lat Words of art; technical terms. YOCABULA ARTIUM 1212 VOLUNTARY Vocabula artium explicanda sunt secundum definitiones prudentum. Terms of arts are to be explained according to tbe definitions of the learned or

VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS

In the houses of parliament the clerks at the tables make brief entries of all that is actually done; aud these minutes, which are printed from day to day for the use

VACCINATION

Inoculation with vaccine or tbe virus of cowpox as a preventive against the smallpox; frequently made compulsory by statute. See Daniel v. Putnam County, 113 Ga. 570, 38 S. E. 9S0, 54

VALOR BENEFICIORUM

L. Lat. The value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first fruits aud tenths are collected and paid. It is commonly called the “king’s books,” by which the

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