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  • VACANCY
    A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to an inter¬ruption in the incumbency of an office. Tbe term 'Vacancy" applies not only to an interregnum in an existing office, but it aptly and fitly describes the condition of an office when it is first created, and has More...
  • VACANT POSSESSION
    See POSSESSION
  • VACANT SUCCESSION
    See SUCCESSION.
  • VACANTIA BONA
    Lat In the civil law. Goods without an owner, or in which no one claims a property; escheated goods. Inst. 2, 6, 4; 1 Bl. Comm. 298.
  • VACATE
    To annul; to cancel or rescind ; to render an act void; as, to vacate an entry of record, or a judgment.
  • VACATIO
    Lat In the civil law. Exemption; immunity; privilege; dispensation; exemption from the burden of office. Calvin.
  • VACATION
    That period of time between the end of one term of court and the beginning of another. See Von Schmidt v. Widber, 99 Cal. 511, 34 Pac. 100; Conkling Bldgely, 112 IU. 36, 1 N. E. 261, 54 Am. Rep. 204; Brayman v. Whltcomb, 134 Mass. 525; State v. Derkum, More...
  • VACATUR
    Lat. Let it be vacated. In practice, a rule or order by which a proceed-ing is vacated; a vacating.
  • VACATURA
    An avoidance of an ecclesiastical benefice. Cowell.
  • VACCARIA
    In old English law. A dairy-house. Co. Litt fib.
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