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Category: V

VENTRE INSPICIENDO

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,

VERNA

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

VETERA STATUTA

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

VICTUS

Lat In the civil law. Sustenance; support; the means of living.

VILE

In old English law, this word was used to signify the parts into which a hun- dred or wapentake was divided. It also signifies a town or city.

VINDICATIO

Lat. In the civil law. The claiming a thing as one’s own ; the asserting of a right or title in or to a thing.

VOCABULA ARTIS

Lat Words of art; technical terms. YOCABULA ARTIUM 1212 VOLUNTARY Vocabula artium explicanda sunt secundum definitiones prudentum. Terms of arts are to be explained according to tbe definitions of the learned or

VOLUNTAS

Lat Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feeling or impulse which prompts the commission of an act; but in old English law the term was often used to

VACATURA

An avoidance of an ecclesiastical benefice. Cowell.

VALET

was anciently a name denoting young gentlemen of rank and family, but afterwards applied to those of lower degree, and is now used for a menial servant, more particularly occupied about the

VARIANCE

In pleading and practice. A discrepancy or disagreement between two instruments or two steps iu the same cause, which ought by law to be entirely consonant Thus, if the evidence adduced by

VENUE

In pleading and practice. A neighborhood; the neighborhood, place, or county in which an injury is declared to have been doue, or fact declared to have hap- pened. 3 Bl. Comm. 204.

VERSARI

Lat. In the civil law. To be employed; to be conversant. Versari male in tutela, to misconduct one’s self in a guardianship. Calvin.

VETITUM NAMIUM

L. Lat Where the bailiff of a lord distrains beasts or goods of another, and the lord forbids the bailiff to deliver them when the sheriff comes to make replevin, the owner

VIAGERE RENTE

In French law. A rent-charge or annuity payable for the life of the annuitant.

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