Legal Term Dictionary

Lat. The making a solemn profession to live a sole and chaste woman.

Lat. The making a solemn profession to live a sole and chaste woman. Less...

Widowhood.

Widowhood. Less...

Fr. Life; occurring in the phrases cestui que vie, pur autre vie, etc.

Fr. Life; occurring in the phrases cestui que vie, pur autre vie, etc. Less...

The right of prospect; the outlook or prospect from the windows of one's house. A species of urban servitude which prohibits the obstruction of such prospect. 8 Kent, Comm. 448. We understand by vieic every opening which may more or less facilitate the means of looking out 'of a building. More...

The right of prospect; the outlook or prospect from the windows of one's house. A species of urban servitude which prohibits the obstruction of such prospect. 8 Kent, Comm. 448. We understand by vieic every opening which may more or less facilitate the means of looking out 'of a building. Lights are those openings which are made rather for the admission of light than to look out of. Civ. Code La. art. 715. Also an inspection of property in contro-versy, or of a place where a crime has been committed, by the Jury previously to the trial. See Garbarsky v. Simkin, 36 Misc. Rep.. 195, 73 N. Y. Supp. 199; Wakefield v. Railroad Co., 63 Me. .385; Lancaster County v. Holyoke, 87 Neb. 328, 55 N. W/ 960, 21 L. R. A. 394. —View and delivery. When a right of com-mon is exercisable not over the whole waste, but only in convenient places indicated from t?m» to time by the lord of the manor or his bailiff, it is said to be exercisable after "view and delivery." Elton, Commons, 233.—View, demand of. In real actions, the defendant was entitled to demand a view, that is, a sight of the thing, tin order to ascertain its identity and oth¬er circumstances. As, if a real action were brought against a tenant and such tenant did not exactly know what land it was that the demandant asked, then he might prav the view, which was that he might see the land which the demandant claimed. Hrown.—View of an inquest. A view or inspection taken by a jury, summoned upon an inquisition or inquest of the place or property to which the inquisition or inquiry refers. Brown.—View of frank pledge. In English law. An examination to see if every freeman above twelve years of age within the district had taken tbe oath of al¬legiance, and found nine freeman pledges for his peaceable demeanor. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 7. Less...

Persons who are appointed by a court to make an investigation of certain matters, or to examine a particular locality, (as, the proposed site of a new road,) and to report to the court the result of their inspection, with their opinion on the same. In old praetiee. Persons appointed More...

Persons who are appointed by a court to make an investigation of certain matters, or to examine a particular locality, (as, the proposed site of a new road,) and to report to the court the result of their inspection, with their opinion on the same. In old praetiee. Persons appointed un¬der writs of view to testify the view. Rose Real Act. 253. Less...

L. Fr. In old English law. A vivum vadium or living pledge, as distin-guished from a mortgage or dead pledge. Properly, an estate given as security for a debt, the debt to be satisfied out of the rents, issues, and profits.

L. Fr. In old English law. A vivum vadium or living pledge, as distin-guished from a mortgage or dead pledge. Properly, an estate given as security for a debt, the debt to be satisfied out of the rents, issues, and profits. Less...

In ecclesiastical law. The eve or next day before any solemn feast.

In ecclesiastical law. The eve or next day before any solemn feast. Less...

Watchfulness; precaution ; a proper degree of activity and promptness in pursuing one's rights or guarding them from infraction, or in making or discovering opportunities for the enforcement of one's lawful claims and demands. It is the opposite of laches. Vigilantibns et non dormientibns jura subveniunt. The laws aid those More...

Watchfulness; precaution ; a proper degree of activity and promptness in pursuing one's rights or guarding them from infraction, or in making or discovering opportunities for the enforcement of one's lawful claims and demands. It is the opposite of laches. Vigilantibns et non dormientibns jura subveniunt. The laws aid those who are vigilant, not those who sleep upon their rights. 2 Inst 690; Merchants' Bank of Newburyport, President, etc., of, v. Steven-son. 7 Allen (Mass.) 493; Broom, Max. 892. Less...

Lat. Strength; virtue; force; efficiency. Proprio vigore, by its own force.

Lat. Strength; virtue; force; efficiency. Proprio vigore, by its own force. Less...

Lat. In the ecclesias¬tical courts, service of a decree or citation viis et mod is, i. e., by all "ways and means" likely to affect the party with knowledge of its contents; is equivalent to substituted service in the temporal courts, and is op¬posed to personal service. Phillim. Ecc. Law, More...

Lat. In the ecclesias¬tical courts, service of a decree or citation viis et mod is, i. e., by all "ways and means" likely to affect the party with knowledge of its contents; is equivalent to substituted service in the temporal courts, and is op¬posed to personal service. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1258, 1283. Less...