Widowhood.

Fr. Life; occurring in the phrases cestui que vie, pur autre vie, etc.

The right of prospect; the outlook or prospect from the windows of one’s house. A species of urban servitude which prohibits the obstruction of such prospect. 3 Kent, Comm. 448. We understand

Persons who are appointed by a court to make an investigation of certain matters, or to examine a particular locality, (as, the proposed site of a new road,) and to report to

L. Fr. In old English law. A vivum vadium or living pledge, as distin- guished from a mortgage or dead pledge. Properly, an estate given as security for a debt, the debt

In ecclesiastical law. The eve or next day before any solemn feast.

Watchfulness; precaution ; a proper degree of activity and promptness in pursuing one’s rights or guarding them from Infraction, or in making or discovering opportunities for the enforcement of one’s lawful claims

Lat. Strength; virtue; force; efficiency. Proprio vigore, by its own force. VIIS ET MODIS1208 VINDEX

Lat. In the ecclesiastical courts, service of a decree or citation viis et modis, i. e., by all “ways and means” likely to affect the party with knowledge of its contents, is

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.

Lat. In Saxon law. A royal residence. Spelman

Any small assemblage of houses for dwellings or business, or both, in the country, whether they are situated upon regularly laid out streets and alleys or not constitutes a village. Hebert v.

An opprobrious epithet, Implying great moral delinquency, and equivalent to knave, rascal, or scoundrel. The word is libelous. 1 Bos. & P. 331.

A writ that lay for the bringing back of the king’s bondmen, that had been carried away by others out of his manors whereto they belonged. Reg. Orig. 87.

In old English law. Villein service. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 13,

A person attached to a manor, who was substantially in the condition of a slave, who performed the base and servile work upon the manor for the lord, and was, in most

A servile kind of tenure belonging to lands or tenements, whereby the tenant was bound to do all such services as the lord commanded, or were fit for a vil- lein to

A payment of a certain quantity of wine instead of rent for a vineyard. 2 Mon. Ang. p. 980.

In Spanish law. An entail. Schm. Civil Law, 308.

See A VINCULO MATRIMONII; DIVORCE.