VALIDITY
This term Is used to signify legal sufficiency, in contradistinction to mere regularity. “An official sale, an order, judgment, or decree may be regular,
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This term Is used to signify legal sufficiency, in contradistinction to mere regularity. “An official sale, an order, judgment, or decree may be regular,
The operation of castration as performed by section (cutting) of the vas deferens or spermatic cord; sometimes proposed as au iuhibitory punishment for rapists and other criminals.
In mining law. A body of mineral or mineralized rock, filling a seam or fissure in the earth’s crust, within defined boundaries in the general mass of the mountain, and having a
Lat A seller; a vendor. Inst. 3, 24; Bract fol. 41.
Lat. (Plural of verbum.) Words.
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
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.
See DAMAGES.
A writ for choice of a verderer in the forest. Reg. Orig. 177
To impair; to make void or voidable; to cause to fail of force or effect; to destroy or annul, either entirely or in part, the legal efficacy and binding force of an
Lat. In old English law. Outcry; hue aud cry. Cowell.
One who has the right of giving his voice or suffrage.
Lat. The vacant possession,
L. Lat. The value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first fruits aud tenths are collected and paid. It is commonly called the “king’s books,” by which the
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.”
Viewers; persons sent by the court to take a view of any place in ques- tion, for the better decision of the right. It signifies, also, such as are sent to view
Lat A female vendor. Cod. 4, 51, 3.