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  • VARIANCE
    In pleading and practice. A discrepancy or disagreement between two instruments or two steps in the same cause, which ought by law to be entirely consonant. Thus, if the evidence adduced by the plaintiff does not agree with the allegations of his declaration, it is a variance; and so if More...
  • VARRANTIZATIO
    In old Scotch law. Warranty.
  • VAS
    Lat. In the civil law. A pledge ; a surety; bail or surety in a criminal proceeding or civil action. Calvin.
  • VASECTOMY
    The operation of castration as performed by section (cutting) of the vas deferens or spermatic cord; sometimes proposed as an inhibitory punishment for rapists and other criminals.
  • VASSAL
    In feudal law. A feudal tenant or grantee; a feudatory; the holder of a fief on a feudal tenure, and by the obliga¬tion of performing feudal services. Tbe correlative term was "lord."
  • VASSALAGE
    The state or condition of a vassal.
  • VASSELERIA
    The tenure or holding of a vassal. Cowell.
  • VASTUM
    L. Lat A waste or common lying open to the cattle of all tenants who have a right of communing. Cowell.—Vastum forestss vel bosei. In old records. Waste of a forest or wood. That part of a forest or wood wherein the trees and under¬wood were so destroyed that it More...
  • VAUDERIE
    In old European law. Sorcery ; witchcraft; the profession of the Vaudols.
  • VAVASORY
    The lands that a vavasour held. Cowell.
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