Category: V

The state or condition of a vassal.

Lat Is it your will and pleasure, Romans? The form of proposing a law to the Roman people. Tayl. Civil Law, 155. Velle non creditnr qni obsequitnr im- perio patris vel domini.

An auctioneer.

Sax. In old records. A packet-boat or transport vessel. Cowell.

In English law. An order which may be granted by the chancery division of the high court of justice, (and formerly by chancery,) passing the legal estate in lieu of a conveyance.

Lat. In the civil law. By force or covertly. Dig. 43, 24.

The neighborhood; vicinage; the venue. Co. Litt 1S56. Vicini viciniora praesumuntur scire. 4 Inst. 173. Persons living in the neighborhood are presumed to kuow the neighbor- hood.

L. Fr. In old English law. A vivum vadium or living pledge, as distin- guished from a mortgage or dead pledge. Properly, an estate given as security for a debt, the debt

Lat. In tbe Roman law, au obligation is defined as a vinculum juris, i. e., “a bond of law,” whereby one party becomes or is bound to another to do something according

In old English law. The verge; the bounds of the king’s household, within which the court of the steward had jurisdiction. Crabb, Eng. Law, 185.

L. Fr. The neighborhood; vicinage; venue. Ex parte McNeeley, 36 W. Va. 84, 14 S. E. 436, 15 L. B. A. 220, 32 Am. St. Bep. 831; State v. Kemp, 34 Minn.

In feudal law. To summon to court Feud. Lib. 2, tit. 22.

Lat. A vow or promise. Dies votorum, the wedding day. Fleta 1. 1, c. 4.

Lat. The vacant possession,

Lat. Value of the marriage. In feudal law, the guardian in chivalry had the right of tendering to his infant ward a suitable match, without “dis- paragement,” (inequality,) which, if the infants

The tenure or holding of a vassal. Cowell.

The office of dog-leader, or courser. Cowell.

A kneeling or low prostration on the ground by penitents; pardon.

L. Lat. In old English law. A verdict; a declaration of the truth of a matter in issue, submitted to a jury for trial. Veredictum, quasi dictum veritatis; nt judicium quasi juris

In ecclesiastical law. The place in a church where the priest’s vestures are deposited. Also an assembly of the minister, church-wardens, and parishioners, usually held iu the vestry of the church, or