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  • VAVASOUR
    One who was in dignity next to a baron. Britt 109; Bract lib. 1, c. & One who held of a baron. Enc. Brit
  • VEAL-MONEY
    The tenants of the manor of Bradford, in the county of Wilts, paid a yearly rent by this name to their lord, in lieu of veal paid formerly in kind Wharton.
  • VECORIN
    In old Lombardic law. The offense of stopping one on the way; forestalling. Spelman.
  • VECTIGAL JUDICIARIUM
    Lat. Fines paid to the crown to defray the expenses of maintaining courts of justice. 8 Salk. 33. Vectigal, origine ipsa, Jus Caesarum et regum patrimoniale est. Dav. 12. Tribute, in its origin, is the patrimonial right of emperors and kings.
  • VECTIGALIA
    In Roman law. Customs-duties; taxes paid upon the importation or exportation of certain kinds of merchandise. Cod. 4, 61.
  • VECTURA
    In maritime law. Freight
  • VEHICLE
    The word "vehicle" includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. Rev. St U. S. § 4 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, P. 4).
  • VEHMGERICHT
    See FEHMGEHRICHT.
  • VEIES
    L. Fr. Distresses forbidden to be replevied; the refusing to let the owner have his cattle which were distrained. Kelham
  • VEIN
    In mining law. A body of mineral or mineralized rock, filling a seam or fissure in the earth's crust, within defined boundaries in the general mass of the mountain, and having a general character of con¬tinuity in the direction of its length. See Iron Silver Min. Co. v. Cheesman, 116 More...
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