Category: V

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; bastards.

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

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.

L. Lat In old records. A fore-footman. Spelman; CowelL

Lat Fines paid to the crown to defray the expenses of maintaining courts of justice.’ 3 Salk. 33. Vectigal, origine ipsa, jns Cresarnm et rcgum patrimoniale est. Dav. 12. Tribute, in its

A purchaser or buyer; one to whom anything is sold. Generally used of the transferee of real property, oue who acquires chattels by sale being called a “buyer.” Vendens eandem rem duobus

Lat. In old pleading. Comes and says. 2 Salk. 544.

In pleading. A certain formula with which all pleadings containing new affirmative matter must conclude, being in itself an averment that the party pleading is ready to establish the truth of what

In old English law. The vesture of the land; that is, the corn, grass, underwood, sweepage, and the like. Co. Litt 46. See Simpson v. Coe, 4 N. H. 301.

Lat In the civil law. Way; a road; a right of way. The right of walking, riding, and driving over another’s land. Inst. 2, 3, pr. A species of rural servitude, which

Au ancient writ against the mayor or bailiff of a town, etc., for the clean keeping of their streets and lanes. Reg. Orig. 207.

Watchfulness; precaution ; a proper degree of activity and promptness in pursuing one’s rights or guarding them from Infraction, or in making or discovering opportunities for the enforcement of one’s lawful claims

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. 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.

In English law. A place for keeping wild animals alive, including fishes; a fish pond, park, or warren.

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.

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. Exemption ; immunity; privilege; dispensation; exemption from the burden of office. Calvin.