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  • VINOUS LIQUORS
    This term includes all alcoholic beverages made from the juice of the grape by the process of fermentation, and perhaps similar liquors made from ap¬ples and from some species of berries; but not pure alcohol nor distilled liquors nor malt liquors such as beer and ale. See Ad¬ler v. State, More...
  • VIOL
    Fr. In French law. Rape. Bar¬ring, Ob. St. 139.
  • VIOLATION
    Injury; Infringement; breach of right, duty, or law. Ravishment; seduction. The statute 25 Edw. III. St. 5, c. 2, enacts that any person who shall violate the king's companion shall be guilty of high treason.
  • VIOLATION OF SAFE CONDUCTS
    An offense against the laws of nations. 4 Steph. Comm. 217.
  • VIOLENCE
    The term "violence" is synonymous with "physical force," and the two are used interchangeably, in relation to assaults, by elementary writers on criminal law. State v. Wells, 31 Conn. 212.
  • VIOLENT
    Characterized or caused by violence; severe; assailing the person (and metaphorically, the mind) with a great de¬gree of force. —Violent death. Death caused by violent external means, as distinguished from, natural death, caused by disease or the wasting of the vital forces.—Violent presumption. In the law of evidence. Proof of More...
  • VIOLENTLY
    By the use of force; forcibly ; with violence. The term is used in in-dictments for certain offenses. State v. Blake, 39 Me. 324; State v. Williams, 32 La. Ann. 337, 36 Am. Rep. 272; Craig v. State, 157 Ind. 574, 62 N. E. 5. Viperina est expositio qua) eorrodit More...
  • VIR
    (Latin) A man, especially as marking the sex. In the Latin phrases and maxims of the old English law, this word gen¬erally means "husband," the expression vir et uxor corresponding to the law French baron et feme. Vir et uxor censentur in lege una per-sona. Jenk. Cent. 27. Husband and More...
  • VIRES
    (Latin). Powers; forces; capabilities; natural powers; powers granted or limited. See ULTRA VIRES. Vires acquirit eundo. It gains strength by continuance. Mann v. Mann's Ex'rs, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 231, 237.
  • VIRGA
    In old English law. A rod or staff; a rod or ensign of office. Cowell.
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