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  • VENDOR
    The person who transfers property by sale, particularly real estate, "seller" being more commonly used for one who sells personalty. He Is the vendor who negotiates the sale, and becomes the recipient of the considera-tion, though the title comes to the vendee from another source, and not from the ven¬dor. More...
  • VENDUE
    A sale; generally a sale at public auction; and more particularly a sale so made under authority of law, as by a constable, sheriff, tax collector, administrator, etc.
  • VENDUE MASTER
    An auctioneer.
  • VENIA
    A kneeling or low prostration on the ground by penitents; pardon.
  • VENIA AETATIS
    A privilege granted by a prince or sovereign, in virtue of which a person is entitled to act, sui juris, as if he were of full age. Story, Confl. Laws, | 74. Venist f aeilitas inoentivnnt eat delin-Quendi. 3 Inst. 236. Facility of pardon is an incentive to crime.
  • VENIRE
    Lat. To come; to appear in court. This word is sometimes used as the name of the writ for summoning a jury, more commonly called a "venire facias."
  • VENIRE FACIAS
    Lat. In practice. A judicial writ, directed to the sheriff of the county in which a cause is to be tried, com-manding him that he "cause to come" before the court, on a certain day therein mention¬ed, twelve good and lawful men of the body of his county, qualified according More...
  • VENIREMAN
    A member of a panel of Jurors; a juror summoned by a writ of venire facias.
  • VENIT ET DEFENDIT
    L. Lat. In old pleading. Comes' and defends. The proper words of appearance and defense in an action. 1 Ld. Raym. 11
  • VENIT ET DICIT
    L. Latin In old pleading. Comes and says. 2 Salk. 544.
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