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  • VEXED QUESTION
    A question or point of law often discussed or agitated, but not determined or settled.
  • VI AUT CLAM
    Lat. In the civil law. By force or covertly. Dig. 43, 24.
  • VI BONORUM RAPTORUM
    Lat. In the civil law. Of goods taken away by force. The name of an action given by tbe praetor as a remedy for the violent taking of another's property. Inst 4, 2; Dig. 47, 8.
  • VI ET ARMIS
    Lat With force and arms. See TRESPASS.
  • VIA
    Lat In the civil law. Way; a road; a right of way. The right of walking, riding, and driving over another's land. Inst. 2, 3, pr. A species of rural servitude, which Includeda footpath and actus, (a driftway.) In old English law. A way; a public road; a foot, horse, More...
  • VIABILITY
    Capability of living. A term used to denote the power a new-born child possesses of continuing its Independent existence.
  • VIABLE
    Capable of life. This term is applied to a newly-born infant, and especially to one prematurely born, which is not only born alive, but in such a state of organic development as to make possible the continuance of its life.
  • VIAE SERVITUS
    Lat. A right of way over another's land.
  • VIAGERE RENTE
    In French law. A rent charge or annuity payable for the life of the annuitant.
  • VIANDER
    In old English law. A returning officer. 7 Mod. 13.
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