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  • VADIMONIUM
    Lat In Roman law. Bail or security; the giving of bail for appearance in court; a recognizance. Calvin.
  • VADIUM
    Lat A pledge; security by pledge of property. Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913. —Vadium mortuum. A mortgage or dead pledge; 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 More...
  • VADLET
    In old English law. The king's eldest son; hence the valet or knave follows the king and queen in a pack of cards. Bar. Obs, St 344.
  • VADUM
    In old records, a ford, or wading place. Cowell
  • VAGABOND
    One that wanders about; and has no certain dwelling; an idle fellow. Jacob. Vagabonds are described in old English statutes as "such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and ale-houses and routs about; and no man wot from whence they came, nor More...
  • VAGRANT
    A wandering, idle person; a strolling or sturdy beggar. A general term, including, in English law, the seyeral classes of idle and disorderly persons, rogues, and vagabonds, and incorrigible rogues. 4 Steph. Comm. 308, 309. In American law, the term is variously de-lined by statute but the general meaning is More...
  • VALE
    In Spanish law. A promissory note. White, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 7, c. 5, | 3. See Govin v. De Miranda, 140 N. Y. 662, 35 N. E. 628. Valeat quantum valere potest. -It shall have as far as it can have effect. Cowp. 600; 4 Kent, Comm. 493; More...
  • VALEC, VALEOT, OR VADELET
    In old English law. A young gentleman; also a servitor or gentleman of the chamber. Cowell.
  • VALENTIA
    Lat. The value or price of anything.
  • VALESHERIA
    In old English law. The proving by the kindred of the slain, one on the father's side, and another on that of the mother, that a man was a Welshman. Wharton. VALET was anciently a name denoting young gentlemen of rank and family, but afterwards applied to those of lower More...
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