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  • VOLUNTEER
    In conveyancing, one who holds a title under a voluntary conveyance, i. e., one made without consideration, good or valuable, to support it A person who gives his services without any express or implied promise of remunera¬tion in return is called a "volunteer," and is entitled to no remuneration for More...
  • VOTE
    Suffrage; the expression of his will, preference, or choice, formally manifested by a member of a legislative or deliberative body, or of a constituency or a .body of qualified electors, In regard to the deci¬sion to be made by the body as a whole upon any proposed measure or proceeding, More...
  • VOTER
    One who has the right of giving his voice or suffrage.
  • VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS
    In the houses of parliament the clerks at the tables make brief entries of all that is actually done; and these minutes, which are printed from day to day for the use of members, are called the "votes and proceedings of parlia¬ment." From these votes and proceedings the journals of More...
  • VOTUM
    Lat. A vow or promise. Dies votorum, the wedding day. Fleta 1. 1, c. 4.
  • VOUCH
    To call upon; to call in to warranty ; to call upon the grantor or warrantor to defend the title to an estate. To vouch Is to call upon, rely on, or quote as an authority. Thus, in the old writers, to vouch a case or report is to quote More...
  • VOUCHEE
    In common recoveries, the person who is called to warrant or defend the title is called the "vouchee." 2 Bouv. Inst, no. 2093. —Common vouchee. In common recoveries, the person who is vouched to warranty. In this fictitious proceeding the crier of the court usually performs the office of a More...
  • VOUCHER
    A receipt, acquittance, or release, which may serve as evidence of pay-ment or discharge of a debt, or to certify the correctness of accounts. An account-book con-taining the acquittances or receipts showing the accountant's discharge of his obligations. Whitwell v. Willard, 1 Mete. (Mass.) 218. The term "voucher," when used More...
  • VOUCHER TO WARRANTY
    The calling one who has warranted lands, by the par¬ty warranted, to come and defend the suit for him. Co. Litt 1015.
  • VOX SIGNATA
    In Scotch practice. An emphatic or essential word. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 280.
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