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  • VEJOURS
    Viewers; persons sent by the court to take a view of any place in question, for the better decision of the right It signifies, also, such as are sent to view those that essoin themselves de malo lertu excuse themselves on ground of illness) whether they be in truth so More...
  • VELABRUM
    In old English law. A toll-booth. Cro. Jac. 122.
  • VELITIS JUBEATIS QUIRITIS
    Latin It is your will and pleasure
  • VELTRARIA
    The office of dog-leader, or courser. Cowell.
  • VELTRARIUS
    One who leads grey-hounds. Blount
  • VENAL
    Something that ia bought; capable of feeing bought; offered for sale; mercenary. Used in an evil sense, such pur¬chase or sale being regarded as corrupt and illegal.
  • VENARIA
    Beasts caught in the woods by hunting.
  • VENATIO
    Hunting. Cowell
  • VEND
    To sell; to transfer the ownership of an article to another for a price in money. The term is not commonly applied to the sale of real estate, although its derivatives "vendor" and "vendee" are.
  • VENDER
    A purchaser or buyer; one to whom anything is sold. Generally used of the transferee of real property, one who acquires chattels by sale being called a "buyer". Vendens eandem rem dnobns falsarium est. He is fraudulent who sells the same thing twice. Jenk. Cent 107.
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