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  • VISITS
    Lat In old English practice. View; inspection, either of a place or person.
  • VITIATE
    To impair; to make void or voidable; to cause to fail of force or effect; to destroy or annul, either entirely or in part, the legal efficacy and binding force of an act or instrument; as when it is said that fraud vitiates a contract.
  • VITILIGATE
    To litigate cavilously, vexatioukly, or from merely quarrelsome mo-tives.
  • VITIOUS INTROMISSION
    In Scotch law. An unwarrantable intermeddling with the movable estate of a person deceased, without the order of law. Ersk. Prin. b. 3, tit 9, | 25. The irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which subjects the party to the whole debts of the deceased. 2 Karnes, More...
  • VITIUM CLERICI
    In old English law. The mistake of a clerk; a clerical error. Vitinm eleriei nooere non debet. Jenk. Cent 23. A clerical error ought not to hurt. Vitinm est qnod fngi debet, nisi, ra-tionem non invenias, mox legem sine rations esse clames. Ellesm. Post N. 86. It is a fault More...
  • VITIUM SCRIPTORIA
    In old English law. The fault or mistake of a writer or copyist; a clerical error. Gilb. Forum Rom. 185.
  • VITRICUS
    (Latin) In the civil law. A step-father; a mother's second husband. Calvin.
  • VIVA AQUA
    Lat In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which is¬sues from a spring or fountain. Calvin.
  • VIVA PECUNIA
    (Latin) Cattle, which obtained this name from being received during the Saxon period as money upon most occasions, at certain regulated prices. Cowell.
  • VIVA VOCE
    (Latin). With the living voice; by word of mouth. As applied to the examination of witnesses, this phrase is equivalent to "orally." It is used in contra distinction to evidence on affidavits or depositions. As descriptive of a species of voting, it signifles voting by speech or outcry, as dis¬tinguished More...
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