Legal Term Dictionary

Lat In the civil law. To be employed; to be conversant Versari male in tutela, to misconduct one's self in a guardianship. Calvin.

Lat In the civil law. To be employed; to be conversant Versari male in tutela, to misconduct one's self in a guardianship. Calvin. Less...

Lat Against In the title of a cause, the name of the plaintiff is put first, followed by the word "versa*," then the defendant's name. Thus, "Fletcher versus Peck," or "Fletcher against Peck." The word is commonly abbreviated "vs." or "v".

Lat Against In the title of a cause, the name of the plaintiff is put first, followed by the word "versa*," then the defendant's name. Thus, "Fletcher versus Peck," or "Fletcher against Peck." The word is commonly abbreviated "vs." or "v". Less...

Everything bearing green leaves in a forest Also that power which a man has, by royal grant, to cut green wood in a forest. Also, in heraldry, green color, called Mve-nus" in the arms of princes, and "emerald" in those of peers, and expressed in engravings by lines In bend. More...

Everything bearing green leaves in a forest Also that power which a man has, by royal grant, to cut green wood in a forest. Also, in heraldry, green color, called Mve-nus" in the arms of princes, and "emerald" in those of peers, and expressed in engravings by lines In bend. Wharton. Less...

Lat True; truthful; genuine; actual; real; just

Lat True; truthful; genuine; actual; real; just Less...

They that are immediate lord and tenant one to another. Cowell.

They that are immediate lord and tenant one to another. Cowell. Less...

A shift brig, sloop, or other craft used in navigation. The word is more comprehensive than "ship." The word "vessel" includes every descrip-tion of water-craft or other artificial contriv-ances used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. Rev. St U. S. | 3 (U. S. More...

A shift brig, sloop, or other craft used in navigation. The word is more comprehensive than "ship." The word "vessel" includes every descrip-tion of water-craft or other artificial contriv-ances used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. Rev. St U. S. | 3 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 4). "Vessel," In the provision of the code of Louisiana that commercial partners are those who are engaged in "carrying personal prop-erty for hire in ships or other vessels," means any structure which is made to float upon the water, for purposes of commerce or war, whether impelled by wind, steam, or oars. Chaffe v. Ludeling, 27 La. Ann. 607. —Foreign vessel. A vessel owned by residents in, or sailing under the flag of, a foreign nation. "Foreign vessel," under the embargo act of January, 1808, means a vessel under the flag of a foreign power, and not a vessel in which foreigners domiciled in the United States have an interest. Tbe Sally, 1 Gall. 58. Fed. Cas. No. 12,257.—Public vessel. One owned and used by a nation or government for its public service, whether in its navy, its reve¬nue service, or otherwise. Less...

To accrue to; to be fixed; to take effect; to give a fixed and Indefeasible right. An estate is vested in possession when there exists a right of present enjoyment; and an estate is vested in interest when there is a present fixed right of future enjoyment Fearne, Rem. 2. More...

To accrue to; to be fixed; to take effect; to give a fixed and Indefeasible right. An estate is vested in possession when there exists a right of present enjoyment; and an estate is vested in interest when there is a present fixed right of future enjoyment Fearne, Rem. 2. To clothe with possession; to deliver full possession of land or of an estate; to give seisin; to enfeoff. Spelman. Less...

The crop on the ground. Cowell.

The crop on the ground. Cowell. Less...

Accrued; fixed; settled; absolute; having the character or giving the rights of absolute ownership; not contingent; not subject to be defeated by a condition precedent. See Scott v. West, 63 Wis. 529, 24 N. W. 161; McGillis v. McGillls, 11 App. Div. 359, 42 N. Y. Supp. 924; Smith v. More...

Accrued; fixed; settled; absolute; having the character or giving the rights of absolute ownership; not contingent; not subject to be defeated by a condition precedent. See Scott v. West, 63 Wis. 529, 24 N. W. 161; McGillis v. McGillls, 11 App. Div. 359, 42 N. Y. Supp. 924; Smith v. Pros-key, 39 Misc. Rep. 385, 79 N. Y. Supp. 851.—Vested devise. See DEVISE.—Vested estate. Any estate, property, or interest is call-ed "vested," whether in possession or not, which is not subject to any condition precedent and unperformed. The interest may be either a present and immediate interest or it may be a fu¬ture but uncontingent, and therefore transmis¬sible, interest. Brown. See Tayloe v. Gould, 10 Barb. (N. Y.) 388; Flanner v. Fellows, 206 111. 136, 68 N. E. 1057; Tindall v. Tindall, 167 Mo. 218, 66 S. W. 1092; Ward v. Edge, 100 Ky. 757, 89 S. W. 440.—Vested in interest. A legal term applied to a present fixed right of future enjoyment; as reversions, vested remainders, such executory' devises, future uses, conditional limitations, and other future interests as are not. referred to, or made to depend on, a period or event that is uncertain. Wharton. See Smith v. West 108 111. 337 ; llawley v. James, 5 Paige (N. Y.) 466; Gates v. Seibert, 157 Mo. 254, 57 S. W. 1065, 80 Am. St. Kep. 025.— Vested in possession. A legal term applied to a right of present enjoyment actually exist¬ing.—Vested interest. A future interest is vested when there is a person in being who would have a right, defeasible or indefeasible, to the immediate possession of the property, upon the ceasing of the intermediate or prece¬dent interest. Civil Code Cal. ft 604. See Al¬lison v. Allison, 101 Va. 537, 44 S. E. 904, 63 L. R. A. 920; Hawkins v. Bohling, 168 111. 214, 48 N. E. 94; Stewart v. Harriman, 56 N. H. 25, 22 Am. Rep. 408; Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 21 Pac. 288, 3 L. R. A. 690.— Vested legacy. A legacy is said to be vested when the words of the testator making the be¬quest convey a transmissible interest, whether present or future, to the legatee in the legacy. Thus a legacy to one to be paid when he at-tains the age of twenty-one years is a vested legacy, because it is given unconditionally and absolutely, and therefore vests an immediate in¬terest in the legatee, of which the enjoyment only is deferred or postponed.Brown. See Magoffin y. Patton, 4 Rawle (Pa.) 113; Tal-lnadge v. Seaman, 85 Hun, 242, 32 N. Y. Supp. 906; Rubencane v. McKee. 6 Del. Ch. 40, 6 Atl. 639.—Vested remainder. See REMAINDER.—Vested rights. In constitutional law. Rights which have so completely and definitely accrued to or settled in a person that they are not subject to be defeated or canceled by the act of any other private person, and which it is right and: equitable that the government should recognize and protect as being lawful in themselves, and settled according to the then cur¬rent rules of law, and of which the individual could not be deprived arbitrarily without injustice, or of which he could not justly be deprived otherwise than by the established methods of procedure and for the public welfare. See Cas-sard v. Tracy, 52 La. Ann. 835. 27 South. 308, 49 L. R. A. 272; Stimson Land Co. v. Rawson (C. C.) 62 Fed. 429; Grinder v. Nelson, 9 Gill. (Md.) 309, 52 Am. Dec. 694: Moore v. State, 43 N. J. Law, 243, 39 Am. Rep. 558. Less...

Lat. In the law of evidence, a vestige, mark, or "sign; a trace, track, or impression left by a physical object. Fleta, 1.1, c. 25, § 6.

Lat. In the law of evidence, a vestige, mark, or "sign; a trace, track, or impression left by a physical object. Fleta, 1.1, c. 25, § 6. Less...