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VIVA AQUA

Lat. In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which issues from a spring or fountain. Calvin.

VOLUMUS

Lat. We will; it is our will. The first word of a clause in the royal writs of protection and letters patent. Cowell.

VULGO QUiESITI

Lat. In the civil law. Spurious children; literally, gotten from the people; the offspring of promiscuous cohabitation, who are considered as having no father. Inst. 3, 4, 3; Id. 3, 5, 4.

VACANTIA BONA

Lat. In the civil law. Goods without an owner, or in which no one claims a property; escheated goods. Inst 2, 6, 4; 1 Bl. Comm. 298.

VAGRANT

A wandering, idle person; a strolling or sturdy beggar. A general term, including, in English law, the several classes of idle and disorderly persons, rogues, and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues. 4 Steph.

VARA

A Spanish-American measure of length, equal to 33 English inches or a trifle more or less, varying according to local usage. See U. S. v. Perot 98 U. S. 428, 25 L

VECTIGALIA

In Roman law. Customs-duties ; taxes paid upon the importation or exportation of certain kinds of merchandise. Cod. 4, 61.

VENDITffi

In old European law. A tax upon things sold in markets and public fairs. Spelman.

VENTRE INSPICIENDO

In old English law. A writ that lay for an heir presumptive, to cause an examination to be made of the widow in order to determine whether she were pregnant or not,

VERT

Everything bearing green leaves in a forest. Also that power which a man has, by royal grant, to cut green wood iu a forest. Also, iu heraldry, green color, called “ve- nus”

VETUS JUS

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

VICAR

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

VIDIMUS

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

VJLLANIS REGIS SUBTRACTIS REDUCENDIS

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.

VIOLATION

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

VIS

Lat Any kind of force, violence, or disturbance relating to a man’s person or his property.

VIVA PECUNIA

Lat Cattle, which obtained this name from being received during the Saxon period as money upon most occasions, at certain regulated prices. Cowell.

VOLUNTARIUS DjEMON

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.

VACATE

To annul; to cancel or rescind ; to render an act void; as, to vacate an entry of record, or a judgment

VALE

In Spanish law. A promissory note. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5,

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