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UTTER BARRISTER

In English law. Those barristers who plead without the bar. and are distinguished from benchers, or those who have been readers, and who are allowed to plead within the bar, as the

UXOR

Lat In the civil law. A wife; a woman lawfully married.

UXORICIDE

The killing of a wife by her husband; one who murders his wife. Not a technical term of the law. V. 1195 VADUM V V. As an abbreviation, this letter may stand

VACANCY

A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to an interruption in the incumbency of an office. The term “vacancy” applies not only to an interregnum in an existing office,

VACANTIA BONA

Lat. In the civil law. Goods without an owner, or in which no one claims a property; escheated goods. Inst 2, 6, 4; 1 Bl. Comm. 298.

VACATE

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

VACATIO

Lat In the civil law. Exemption ; immunity; privilege; dispensation; exemption from the burden of office. Calvin.

VACATION

That period of time between the end of one term of court and the beginning of another. See Von Schmidt v. Widber, 99 Cal. 511, 34 Pac. 109; Colliding v. Ridgely, 112

VACATUR

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

VACATURA

An avoidance of an ecclesiastical benefice. Cowell.

VACCARIA

In old English law. A dairy-house. Co. Litt 56.

VACCINATION

Inoculation with vaccine or tbe virus of cowpox as a preventive against the smallpox; frequently made compulsory by statute. See Daniel v. Putnam County, 113 Ga. 570, 38 S. E. 9S0, 54

VACUUS

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

VADES

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

VADIARE DUEEEUM

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.

VADIMONIUM

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

VADIUM

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

VADEET

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.

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