Category: V

Lat In Roman law. A sum- moner or apparitor; an officer who attended on the tribunes and rediles.

Lat The words “to-wit,” or “that is to say,” so frequently used in pleading, are technically called the “videlicet” or “scilicct;” and when any fact alleged in pleading is preceded by, or

An opprobrious epithet, Implying great moral delinquency, and equivalent to knave, rascal, or scoundrel. The word is libelous. 1 Bos. & P. 331.

Fr. In French law. Rape. Rar- ring. Ob. St. 139.

Lat. By virtue of his office. By the authority vested in him as the incumbent of the particular office.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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,

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”

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

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

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

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.

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