Category: V

A proceeding is said to be vexatious when the party bringing it is uot acting bona fide, and merely wishes to annoy or embarrass his opponent, or when it is not calculated

A person clothed with authority to act in place of the king; hence, the usual title of the governor of a dependency.

The right of prospect; the outlook or prospect from the windows of one’s house. A species of urban servitude which prohibits the obstruction of such prospect. 3 Kent, Comm. 448. We understand

In Spanish law. An entail. Schm. Civil Law, 308.

In old English law. A rod or staff; a rod or ensign of office. Cowell. VIR6A TERR.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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.

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

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,

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

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,

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

See A VINCULO MATRIMONII; DIVORCE.

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