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.

Lat. In tbe Roman law, au obligation is defined as a vinculum juris, i. e., “a bond of law,” whereby one party becomes or is bound to another to do something according

Lat. In the civil law. A defender. VINDICARE 1209 VIRGA

Lat. In tlie civil law. To claim, or challenge; to demand one’s own; to assert a right in or to a thing; to assert or claim a property in a thing; to

Lat. In the civil law. The claiming a thing as one’s own ; the asserting of a right or title in or to a thing.

The sanction of the laws, whereby it is signified what evil or penalty shall be incurred by such as commit any public wrongs, and transgress or neglect their duty. 1 Steph. Comm.

In Roman law. A rod or wand; and. from the use of that instrument in their course, various legal acts came to be distinguished by the term; e. g., one of the

See DAMAGES.

This term includes all alcoholic beverages made from the juice of the grape by the process of fermentation, and perhaps similar liquors made from apples and from some species of berries; but

Fr. In French law. Rape. Rar- ring. Ob. St. 139.

Injury; Infringement; breach of right, duty, or law. Ravishment; seduction. The statute 25 Edw. III. St. 5, c. 2, enacts that any person who shall violate the king’s companion shall be guilty