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  • VINAGIUM
    A payment of a certain quantity of wine Instead of rent for a vine-yard. 2 Mon. Ang. p. 980.
  • VINCULACION
    In Spanish law. An entail. Schm. Civil Law, 308.
  • VINCULO
    In Spanish law. The bond, chain, or tie of marriage. White, New Re¬cop. b. 1, tit. 6, c. 1, 5 2.
  • VINCULO MATRIMONII
    See A VINCULO MATRIMONII; DIVORCE.
  • VINCULUM JURIS
    Lat In the Roman law, an obligation is defined as a vinculum juris, i. c, "a bond of law," whereby one party becomes or is bound to another to do something according to law.
  • VINDEX
    Lat. In the civil law. A defender.
  • VINDICARE
    Lat. In the civil law. To claim, or challenge; to demand one's own; to assert a right in or to a thing; to assert or claim a property in a thing; to claim a thing as one's own. Calvin.
  • VINDICATIO
    Lat. In. the civil law. The claiming a thing as one's own; the as¬serting of a right or title In or to a thing.
  • VINDICATORY PARTS OF LAWS
    The sanction of the laws, whereby it Is sig-nified what evil or penalty shall be incurred by such as commit any public wrongs, and transgress or neglect their duty. 1 Steph. Comm. 87.
  • VINDICTA
    In Roman law. A rod or wand; and, from the use of that Instrument in their course, various legal acts came to be distinguished by the term; e. p., one of the three ancient modes of manumission was by the vindicta; also the rod or wand intervened in the progress More...
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