Legal Term Dictionary

In French feudal law. Originally, an officer who represented the bishop, as the viscount did the count. In process of time, these dignitaries erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles, such as the vidame ot Chart res, Rheims, etc., continuing to take their titles from the seat of More...

In French feudal law. Originally, an officer who represented the bishop, as the viscount did the count. In process of time, these dignitaries erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles, such as the vidame ot Chart res, Rheims, etc., continuing to take their titles from the seat of the bishop whom they represented, although the lands held by virtue of their fiefs might be situated elsewhere. Brande; Burrill. Less...

Lat. A word of reference. Vide ante, or vide supra, refers to a previous passage, vide post, or vide infra, to a subsequent passage, in a book. Videbls ea sstpe eeaunitti qus» srnpe vlndieantur. 3 Inst. Epll. You will see these things frequently committed which are frequently punished.

Lat. A word of reference. Vide ante, or vide supra, refers to a previous passage, vide post, or vide infra, to a subsequent passage, in a book. Videbls ea sstpe eeaunitti qus» srnpe vlndieantur. 3 Inst. Epll. You will see these things frequently committed which are frequently punished. Less...

Lat The words "to-wit," or "that is to say," so frequently used in pleading, are technically called the "videli-cet" or "scilicet" and when any fact alleged in pleading is preceded by, or accompanied with, these words, such fact is, in the language of the law, said to be "laid under More...

Lat The words "to-wit," or "that is to say," so frequently used in pleading, are technically called the "videli-cet" or "scilicet" and when any fact alleged in pleading is preceded by, or accompanied with, these words, such fact is, in the language of the law, said to be "laid under a videlicet." The use of the videlicet is to point out, particularize, or render more, specific that which has been previously stated in general language only; also to explain that which is doubtful or obscure. Brown. See Stukeley v. Butler, Hob. 171; Gleason v. McVickar, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 48; Sullivan v. State, 67 Miss. 846, 7 South. 275; Clark v. Employers' Liability Assur. Co., 72 Vt 458, 48 Atl. 689; Com. v. Qulnlan, 158 Mass. 488, 27 N. B. & Videtur qui surdus et mutus ne poet faire alienation. It seems that a deaf and dumb man cannot alienate. Brower v. Fish¬er, 4 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 444; Brooke, Abr. "Esthete," pi. 4. Less...

An inspeximus, (q. v.) Bar¬ring, Ob. St 5.

An inspeximus, (q. v.) Bar¬ring, Ob. St 5. Less...

Lat. In old English law. A king's widow. The widow of a tenant in capite. So called, because she was not allowed to marry a second time without the king's permission; obtaining her dower also from the assignment of the king, and having the king for her patron and defender. More...

Lat. In old English law. A king's widow. The widow of a tenant in capite. So called, because she was not allowed to marry a second time without the king's permission; obtaining her dower also from the assignment of the king, and having the king for her patron and defender. Spelman. Less...

Lat. The making a solemn profession to live a sole and chaste woman.

Lat. The making a solemn profession to live a sole and chaste woman. Less...

Widowhood.

Widowhood. Less...

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

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

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. 8 Kent, Comm. 448. We understand by vieic every opening which may more or less facilitate the means of looking out 'of a building. More...

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. 8 Kent, Comm. 448. We understand by vieic every opening which may more or less facilitate the means of looking out 'of a building. Lights are those openings which are made rather for the admission of light than to look out of. Civ. Code La. art. 715. Also an inspection of property in contro-versy, or of a place where a crime has been committed, by the Jury previously to the trial. See Garbarsky v. Simkin, 36 Misc. Rep.. 195, 73 N. Y. Supp. 199; Wakefield v. Railroad Co., 63 Me. .385; Lancaster County v. Holyoke, 87 Neb. 328, 55 N. W/ 960, 21 L. R. A. 394. —View and delivery. When a right of com-mon is exercisable not over the whole waste, but only in convenient places indicated from t?m» to time by the lord of the manor or his bailiff, it is said to be exercisable after "view and delivery." Elton, Commons, 233.—View, demand of. In real actions, the defendant was entitled to demand a view, that is, a sight of the thing, tin order to ascertain its identity and oth¬er circumstances. As, if a real action were brought against a tenant and such tenant did not exactly know what land it was that the demandant asked, then he might prav the view, which was that he might see the land which the demandant claimed. Hrown.—View of an inquest. A view or inspection taken by a jury, summoned upon an inquisition or inquest of the place or property to which the inquisition or inquiry refers. Brown.—View of frank pledge. In English law. An examination to see if every freeman above twelve years of age within the district had taken tbe oath of al¬legiance, and found nine freeman pledges for his peaceable demeanor. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 7. Less...

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 the court the result of their inspection, with their opinion on the same. In old praetiee. Persons appointed More...

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 the court the result of their inspection, with their opinion on the same. In old praetiee. Persons appointed un¬der writs of view to testify the view. Rose Real Act. 253. Less...