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.

Lat A female vendor. Cod. 4, 51, 3.

The person who transfers property by sale, particularly real estate, “seller” being more commonly used for one who sells personalty. He is the vendor who negotiates the sale, and becomes the recipient

A sale; generally a sale at public auction; and more particularly a sale so made under authority of law, as by a constable, sheriff, tax collector, administrator, etc.

An auctioneer.

A kneeling or low prostration on the ground by penitents; pardon.

Lat. To come; to appear in court This word is sometimes used as the name of the writ for summoning a jury, more commonly called a “venire facias.”

Lat. In practice. A judicial writ, directed to the sheriff of the county in which a cause is to be tried, commanding him that he “cause to come” before tbe court, on

A member of a panel of jurors; a juror summoned by a writ of venire facias.

L. Lat. In old pleading. Comes and defends. The proper words of appearance and defense in an action. 1 Ld. Raym. 117.

Lat. In old pleading. Comes and says. 2 Salk. 544.

In French law. Sale; contract of sale.

The belly or womb. The term Is used In law as designating the maternal parentage of children. Thus, where in ordinary phraseology we should say that A. was R.’s child by his

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,

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.