Lat In the civil law. Empty; void; vacant; unoccupied. Calvin.

Lat. In the civil law. Pledges; sureties; bail; security for the appearance of a defendant or accused person in court Calvin.

L. Lat. In old English law. To wage or gage the duellum; to wage battel; to give pledges mutually for engaging in the trial by combat.

Lat In Roman law. Bail or security; the giving of ball for appearance in court; a recognizance. Calvin.

Lat A pledge; security by pledge of property. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 I.d Raym. 913.

In old English law. The king’s eldest son; hence the valet or knave follows the king and queen In a pack of cards. Bar. Obs. St. 344.

In old records, a ford, or wading place. Cowell. VAGABOND 1196 VALUABLE CONSIDERATION

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.

In Spanish law. A promissory note. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5,

In old English law. A young gentleman; also a servitor or gentleman of the chamber. Cowell.

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

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

Of binding force. A deed, will, or other instrument, which has received all the formalities required by law, is said to be valid.

This term Is used to signify legal sufficiency, in contradistinction to mere regularity. “An official sale, an order, judgment, or decree may be regular,

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

Lat. Value of the marriage. In feudal law, the guardian in chivalry had the right of tendering to his infant ward a suitable match, without “dis- paragement,” (inequality,) which, if the infants

The distinction between a good and a valuable consideration is that the former consists of blood, or of natural love and affection; as when a man grants an estate to a near

The act of ascertainiug the worth of a thing. The estimated worth of a thing. See Lowenstein v. Schiller, 38 App. Div. 178, 50 N. Y. Supp. 074; State v. Central Pac.

The utility of an object in satisfying, directly or indirectly, the needs or desires of human beings, called by economists “value in use;” or its worth consisting in the power of purchasing

A policy Is called “valued,” when the parties, having agreed upon the value of the interest insured, in order to save the necessity of further proof have inserted the valuation In the