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  • VISA
    An official Indorsement npon a document, passport commercial book, etc.. to certify that it has been examined and found correct or in due form.
  • VISCOUNT
    A decree of English nobility, next below that of earl. An old title of the sheriff.
  • VISE'
    An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on bin journey. Webster.
  • VISIT
    In international law. The right of visit or visitation is the right of a cruiser or war-ship to stop a vessel sailing under another flag on the high seas, and send an officer to such vessel to ascertain whether her nationality is what it purports to he. It is exercisable More...
  • VISITATION
    Inspection; superintendence; direction; regulation. A power given by law to the founders of all eleemosy- nary corporations. 2 Kent, Connn. 300-308; 1 Bl. Comm. 480, 481. In England, the vis-itation of ecclesiastical corporations belongs to the ordinary. Id. See Trustees of Union Baptist Ass'n v. Hunn, 7 Tex. Civ. App. More...
  • VISITATION BOOKS
    In English law. Books compiled by the heralds, when progresses were solemnly and regularly made Into every part of the kingdom, to Inquire into the state of families, and to register such marriages and descents as were verified to them upon oath; they were allowed to he good evidence of More...
  • VISITOR
    An inspector of the government of corporations, or bodies politic.
  • VISITOR OF MANNERS
    The regarder's office in the forest. Manw. 1. 195.
  • VISNE
    L. Fr. The neighborhood; vicinage; venue. Ex parte McNeeley, 36 W. Va. 84, 14 S. E 436, 15 L. R. A. 226, 32 Am. St Rep. 831; State v. Kemp, 34 Minn. 61, 24 N. W. 349.
  • VISITS
    Lat In old English practice. View; inspection, either of a place or person.
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