日期：2008-03-26 VICE-ADMIRAL. 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. VICE-CHANCELLOR. The title of a judicial officer who decides causes depending in the court of chancery; his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VEXED QUESTION, vexata quaestio. A question or point of law often discussed or agitated, but not determined nor settled. VI ET ARMIS. With force and arms. When man breaks into another's close vi et armis, he may be opposed force by force, for there... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VEXATION. The injury or damage which, is suffered in consequence of the tricks of another. VEXATIOUS SUITS, torts. A vexatictus suit is one which has been instituted maliciously, and without probable cause, whereby a damage has ensued to the defenda... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VETERA STATUTA. The name of vetera statuta, ancient statutes, has been given to the statutes commencing with Magna Charta', and ending with those of Edward II. Crabb's Eng. Law, 222. b legislation. This is a Latin word signifying, I forbid. 2. It is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VERSUS. Against; as A B versus C D. This is usually abbreviated v. VERT. Everything bearing green leaves in a forest. Bac. Ab. Courts of the Foreat; Manwood, 146. VESSEL, mar. law. A ship, brig, sloop or other craft used in navigation . 1 Boul. Paty... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VERMONT. The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. lt was admitted by virtue of An act for the admission of the state of Vermont into this Union, approved February, 18, 1791, 1 Story's L. U. S. 169, by which it is enacted, t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VERIFICATION, pleading. Whenever new matter is introduced on either side, the plea must conclude with a verification or averment, in order that the other party may have an opportunity of answering it. Carth. 337; 1 Lutw. 201; 2 Wils. 66; Dougl. 60;... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VERAY TENANT, or TRUE TENANT, Eng. law. One who holds a fee simple; in pleadings, he is called simply tenant. He differs from a tenant by the manner in this, that the latter holds a less estate than a fee which remains in the reversioner. 2. A veray... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VENUE, pleading. The venue is the county from which the jury are to come, who are to try the issue. Gould, Pl. c. 3, 102; Archb. Civ. Pl. 86. 2. As it is a general rule, that the place of every traversable fact stated in the pleadings must be distin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VENIRE, OR VENIRE PACIAS JURATORES, practice. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff commanding him to cause to come from the body of the county before the court from which it issued, on some day certain and therein specified, a certain number o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VASSAL, feudal law. This was the name given to the holder of a fief, bound to perform feudal service; this word was then always correlative to that of lord, entitled to such service. 2. The vassal himself might be lord of some other vassal. 3. In af... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VALUED POLICY. A valued policy is one where the value has been set on the ship or goods insured, and this value has been inserted in the policy in the nature of liquidated damages, to save the necessity of proving it in case of loss. 1 Bouv. Inst. n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VALID . An act, deed, will, and the like, which has received all the formalities required by law, is said to be valid or good in law. VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, contracts. An equivalent for a thing purchased. Vide Vin. Ab. Consideration, B; 2 Bl. Com.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VADIUM MORTUUM, contracts. A mortgage or dead-pledge; it is a security given by the borrower of a sum of money, by which he grants to the lender an estate in fee, on condition that if the money be not repaid at the time appointed, the estate so put... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 VACANCY. A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled. 2. By the constitution of the United States, the president has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate. W... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UTERINE BROTHER, domestic relations. A brother by the mother's side. UTI POSSIDETIS. This phrase, which means as you possess, is used in international law to signify that the parties to a treaty are to retain possession of what they have acquired by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 USURPER , government. One who assumes the right of government by force, contrary to and in violation of the constitution of the country. Toull. Dr. Civ. n. 32. Vide Tyranny, USURY, contracts. The illegal profit which is required and received by the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 USUFRUCTUARY, civil law. One who has the right and enjoyment of an usufruct. 2. Domat, with his usual clearness, points out the duties of the usufructuary, which are, 1. To make an inventory of the things subject to the usu-fruct, in the presence of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 USEFUL. That which may be put into beneficial practice. 2. The patent act of congress of July 4, 1836, sect. 6, in describing the subjects of patents, mentions new and useful art, and new and useful improvement. To entitle the inventor to a patent,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 USE, estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and suffer him to take the profi... 阅读全文>>