In Roman law. Customs-duties ; taxes paid upon the importation or exportation of certain kinds of merchandise. Cod. 4, 61.

In maritime law. Freight

The word “vehicle” includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on laud. Rev. St. U. S. 5 4 (U.

See FEHHGERICIIT.

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

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

In old English law. A toll-booth. Cro. Jac. 122.

Lat Is it your will and pleasure, Romans? The form of proposing a law to the Roman people. Tayl. Civil Law, 155. Velle non creditnr qni obsequitnr im- perio patris vel domini.

The office of dog-leader, or courser. Cowell.

One who leads greyhounds. Blount

Somethiug that is bought; capable of being bought; offered for sale; mer- cenary. Used in an evil sense, such purchase or sale being regarded as corrupt and illegal.

Beasts caught In the woods by hunting.

Hunting. Cowell.

To sell; to transfer the ownership of an article to another for a price in money. The term is not commonly applied to the sale of real estate, although its deriva- tives

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

Fit or suitable to be sold; capable of transfer by sale; merchautable.

In old European law. A tax upon things sold in markets and public fairs. Spelman.

Lat In the civil law. In a strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the contract of sale, otherwise called “emptio vendition Inst. 3. 24. Calvin. In a large sense. Any mode

Lat You expose to sale. This is the name of a writ VENDITOR 1199 VENTE of execution, requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied upon

Lat A seller; a vendor. Inst. 3, 24; Bract fol. 41.