Category: V

The belly or womb. The term Is used In law as designating the maternal parentage of children. Thus, where in ordinary phraseology we should say that A. was R.’s child by his

Truth; truthfulness; conformity to fact. The records of a court “import uncontrollable verity.” 1 Black, Judgm. { 276.

A phrase including all things, trees excepted, which grow upon the surface of the land, and clothe it externally. Ham. N. P. 151.

Capable of life. This term is applied to a newly-born infant, and especially to one prematurely born, which is not only born alive, but in such a state of organic de- velopment

In English law. A person authorized by law to keep a house of en- tertainment for the public; a publican. 9 Adol. & E. 423.

Lat. In the ecclesiastical courts, service of a decree or citation viis et modis, i. e., by all “ways and means” likely to affect the party with knowledge of its contents, is

Lat. In tlie civil law. To claim, or challenge; to demand one’s own; to assert a right in or to a thing; to assert or claim a property in a thing; to

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.

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.

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

As to voluntary “Answer,” “Assignment,” “Bankruptcy,” “Confession.” “Conveyance,” “Deposit,” “Escape,” “Jurisdiction,” “Manslaughter,” “Nonsuit,” “Oath,” “Payment,” “Redemption,” “Sale,” “Settlement,” “Trust,” and “Waste,” see those titles.

Lat Let it be vacated. In practice, a rule or order by which a proceeding is vacated; a vacating.

L. Lat The value or price of anything. VALESHERIA. In old English law. The proving by the kindred of the slain, one on the father’s side, and another on that of the

In old Scotch law. A warren. Answering to “warenna,” in old English law. Spelman.

The word “vehicle” includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on laud. Rev. St. U. S. 5 4 (U.

Lat In the civil law. In a strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the contract of sale, otherwise called “emptio vendition Inst. 3. 24. Calvin. In a large sense. Any mode

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,

Lat In the civil law. A si are born in his master’s house.

Lat. Ancient statutes. Tbe English statutes from Mui/ua Charta to the end of the reign of Edward II. are so called; those from the beginning of the reign of Edward III. being

Lat. A right of way over another’s land.