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  • VACCINATION
    Inoculation with vaccine or the virus of cowpox as a preventive against tbe smallpox; frequently made compulsory by statute. See Daniel v. Putnam County, 118 Ga. 570, 38 S. E. 980, 64 L. R. A, 292.
  • VACUA POSSESSIO
    Lat Tbe vacant possession, ie: free and unburdened possession, which (eg) a vendor had and has to give to a purchaser of lands.
  • VACUUS
    Lat In the civil law. Empty; void; vacant; unoccupied. Calvin.
  • VADES
    Lat In the civil law. Pledges; sureties; bail; security for the appearance of a defendant or accused person in court Calvin.
  • VADIARE DUELLUM
    L. Lat. In old English law. To wage or gage the DUELLUM; to wage battel; to give pledges mutually for engaging in the trial by combat.
  • 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...
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