日期：2008-03-27 WARRANT OF ATTORNEY , practice. An instrument in writing, addressed to one or more attorneys therein named, authorizing them generally to appear in any court, or in some specified court, on behalf of the person giving it, and to confess judgment in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-27 WAREHOUSEMAN. A warehouseman is a person who receives goods and merchandise to be stored in his warehouse for hire. 2. He is bound to use ordinary care in preserving such goods and merchan-dise, and his neglect to do so will render him liable to the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 WARD, a district. Most cities are divided for various purposes into districts, each of which is called a ward. WARD, police. To watch in the day time, for the purpose of preventing violations of the law. 2. It is the duty of all police officers and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 WAKENING, Scotch law. The revival of an action. 2. An action is said to sleep, when it lies over, not insisted on for a year in which case it is suspended. 4, t. 1, n. 33. With us a revival is by scire facias. (q. v.) WALL. A building or erection so... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 WAGES, contract. A compensation given to a hired person for his or her services. As to servants wages, see Chitty, Contr. 171 as to sailors' wages, Abbott on Shipp. 473; generally, see 22. Vin. Abr. 406; Bac. Abr. Master, c., H; Marsh. Ins. 89; 2 Li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 WAGER POLICY, contracts. One made when the insured has no insurable interest. 2. It has nothing in common with insurance but the name and form. It is usually in such terms as to preclude the necessity of inquiring into the interest of the insured; a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 WADSET, Scotch law. A right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt; and, like other heritable rights, is perfected by seisin. 2. Wadsets, by the present practice, are... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VOUCHER TO WARRANTY, common recoveries. The calling one who has warranted lands, by the party warranted, to come and defend the suit for him. Co. Litt. 101, b. Vide Warranty, voucher to. VOYAGE, marine law. The passage of a ship upon the seas, from... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VOLUNTEERS, army. Persons who in time of war offer their services to their country and march in its defence. 2. Their rights and duties are prescribed by the municipal laws of the different states. But when in actual service they are subject to the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VOLUNTARY DEPOSIT, civil law. One which is made by the mere consent or agreement of the parties. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1054. VOLUNTARY ESCAPE. The giving to a prisoner voluntarily, any liberty not authorized by law. 5 Mass. 310; 2 Chipm. 11; 3 Harr. John... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VOLUNTARY. 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 another without a will on his part, while engaged in the performance of a lawful act, and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VOIDABLE. 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, may be mentioned the case of a contract, made by an infant with an adult, which maybe av... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VOCATIO IN JUS, 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 with him to the praetor in jus eamus. In jus te voco. This was denominated vocatio i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VISITATION. The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. 2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemo-synary corporations. 1 Bl. Com. 480; 2 Kid on Corp. 174. The visitation of civil corporations is by the go... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VIRILIA. The privy members of a man. Bract. lib. 3, p. 144. VIRTUTE OFFICII. 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 presence. VIS. A Lati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VIRGINIA. 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 afterwards altered in 1609 and 1612; and in 1624 the charter was declared to be forfeited u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VIOLATION. 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 violate the king's companion; and it is equally high treason in her to suffer willingly such... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VILL. 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 also signifies a town or city. Barr. on the Stat. 133. VILLAIN., An epithet used to cast contem... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VIEW, DEMAND OF, 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 allowed, after the demandant has counted, to demand a view of the land in question; or... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VICE VERSA . On the contrary; on opposite sides. VICECOMES. The sheriff. VICECOMES NON MISIT BREVE. 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.... 阅读全文>>