With force and arms. When man breaks into another~s close vi et armis, he may be opposed force by force, for there is no time to request him to go awa...
A cart-way, which also includes a foot-way and a horse-way. Vide Way. ...
Vitae habilis, capable of living. This is said of a child who is born alive in such an advanced state of formation as to be capable of living. Unless ...
med. jur. An aptitude to live after birth; extra uterine life. 1 Briand. Med. Leg. 1ere partie, c. 6, art. 2. See 2 Sav. Dr. Rom. Append. III. for a l...
A term used in the civil law and in Louisiana, by which is meant a defect in a thing; an imperfection. For example, epilepsy in a slave, roaring and c...
The title of an officer in the navy; the next in rank after the admiral. In the United States we have no officer by this name. ...
The title of a judicial officer who decides causes depending in the court of chancery; his opinions may be reversed, discharged or altered by the chan...
The title of the second officer, in point of rank, in the government of the United States. 2. To obtain a correct idea of the law relating to this of...
On the contrary; on opposite sides. ...
The sheriff. ...
The sheriff did not send the writ. An entry made on the record when nothing has been done by virtue of a writ which has been directed to the sheriff. ...
The neighborhood; the venue. (q. v.) ...
The neighborhood; vicenage; the venue. Co. Litt. 158 b. ...
Belonging to the sheriff. ...
A Latin adverb signifying to wit, that is to say, namely, scilicet. (q. v.) This word is usually, abbreviated Viz. 2. The office of the videlicet is ...
A prospect. 2. Every one is entitled to a view from his premises, but he thereby acquires no right over the property of his neighbors. The erection o...
practice. In most real and mixed actions, in order to ascertain the identity of land claimed with that in the tenant~s possession, the tenant is allow...
Persons appointed by the courts to see and examine certain matters, and make a report of the facts together with their opinion to the court. In practi...
Proper attention in proper time. 2. The law requires a man who has a claim to enforce it in proper time, while the adverse party has it in his power ...
In England this word was used to signify the parts into which a hundred or wapentake was divided. Fortesc. De Laud, ch. 24. See Co. Litt. 115 b. It al...
An epithet used to cast contempt and contumely on the person to whom it is applied. 2. To call a man a villain in a letter written to a third person,...
Engl. law. A species of slave during the feudal times.~ 2. The feudal villein of the lowest order was unprotected as to property, and subjected to th...
punishments. In the English law it was a judgment given by the common law in attaint, or in cases of conspiracy. 2. Its effects were to make the obje...
A divorce. A vinculo matrimonii, is one from the bonds of matrimony. Such a divorce generally enables the parties to marry again. ...
civil law. The claim made to property by the owner of it. 1 Bell~s Com. 281, 5th ed. See Revendication. ...
An act done unlawfully and with force. In the English stat. of 25 E. III., st. 5, c. 2, it is declared to be high treason in any person who shall viol...
The abuse of force. Theorie des Lois Criminelles, 32. That force which is employed against common right, against the laws, and against public liberty....
Scotch law. The gains made by a tenant holding over, are so called. Ersk. Inst. R. 2, tit. 6, s. 54. ...
pleading. This word was formerly supposed to be necessary in an indictment, in order to charge a robbery from the person, but it has been holden unnec...
An obsolete word, which signifies a rod or staff, such as sheriffs, bailiffs, and constables carry, as a badge or ensign of their office. ...
The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. This colony was chartered in 1606, by James the First, and this charter was af...
The privy members of a man. Bract. lib. 3, p. 144. ...
By virtue of his office. A sheriff, a constable, and some other officers may, virtute officii, apprehend a man who has been guilty of a crime in their...
A Latin word which signifies force. In law it means any kind of force, violence, or disturbance, relating to a man~s person or his property. ...
Immediate force; original force. This phrase is applied to cases of trespass when a question arises whether an injury has been caused by a direct forc...
a superior force. In law it signifies inevitable accident. 2. This term is used in the civil law in nearly the same same way that the words act of Go...
civ. law. The formula put upon an act; a register; a commercial book, in order to approve of it and authenticate it. ...
The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. 2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemo-synary corporation...
An inspector of the government, of corporations or bodies politic. 1 Bl. Com. 482. Vide Dane~s Ab. Index, h. t.; 7 Pick. 303; 12 Pick. 244. ...
The neighborhood; a neighboring place; a place near at hand; the venue. (q. v.) 2. Formerly the visne was confined to the immediate neighborhood, whe...
Living voice; verbally. It is said a witness delivers his evidence viva voce, when he does so in open court; the term is opposed to deposition. It is ...
A place where living things are kept; as a park, on land; or in the water, as a pond. ...
or living pledge, contracts. When a man borrows a sum of money (suppose two hundred dollars) of another, and grants him an estate, as of twenty dollar...
Roman civ. law. According to the practice in the legis actiones of the Roman law, a person having a demand against another, verbally cited him to go w...
contracts, practice. That which has no force or effect. 2. Contracts, bequests or legal proceedings may be void; these will be severally considered. ...
That which has some force or effect, but which, in consequence of some inherent quality, may be legally annulled or avoided. 2. As a familiar example...
Willingly; done with one~s consent; negligently. Wolff, §5. 2. To render an act criminal or tortious it must be voluntary. If a man, therefore, kill ...
contracts. The transfer of an estate made without any adequate consideration of value. 2. Whenever a voluntary conveyance is made, a presumption of f...
civil law. One which is made by the mere consent or agreement of the parties. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1054. ...
The giving to a prisoner voluntarily, any liberty not authorized by law. 5 Mass. 310; 2 Chipm. 11; 3 Harr. & John. 559; 2 Harr. & Gill. 106; 2 Bouv. I...
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