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  • VESTING ORDER
    In English law. An order which may be granted by the chancery division of the high court of justice, (and formerly by chancery,) passing the legal es-tate In lieu of a conveyance. Commissioners also, under modern statutes, have similar powers. St 15 & 16 Vict c. 55; Wharton.
  • VESTRY
    In ecclesiastical law. The place in a church where the priest's vestures are deposited. Also an assembly of the min¬ister, church-wardens, and parishioners, usually held in the vestry of the church, or in a building called a "vestry-hall," to act upon business of the church. Mozley & Whitley. —Vestry cess. More...
  • VESTURA
    A crop of grass or corn. Also a garment; metaphorically applied to a possession or seisin.
  • VESTURA TERRE
    In old English law. The vesture of the land; that is, the corn, grass, underwood, sweepage, and the like. Co. Litt 4b. See Simpson v. Coe, 4 N. HL 301.
  • VESTURE
    In old English law. Profit of land. "How much the vesture of an acre is worth." CowelL
  • VESTURE OF LAND
    A phrase including all things, trees excepted, which grow upon the surface of the land, and clothe it externally. Ham. N. P. 15L
  • VETERA STATUTA
    Lat Ancient statutes. The English statutes from Magna Charta to the end of the reign of Edward II. are so called; those from the beginning of the reign of Edward III. being contradistinguished by the appellation of "Nova Statuta." 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 85.
  • VETITUM NAMIUM
    L. Lat. Where the bailiff of a lord distrains beasts or goods of another, and the lord forbids the bailiff to deliver them when the sheriff cornea to make replevin, the owner of the cattle may demand satisfaction in placitum de vetito namio. 2 Inst 140; 2 BL Comm. 148.
  • VETO
    Lat. I forbid. The veto-power is a power vested in the executive officer of some governments to declare his refusal to assent to any bill or measure which has been passed by the legislature. It is either absolute or qualified, according as the effect of its exercise is either to More...
  • VETUS JUS
    Lat. The old law. A term used in the civil law, sometimes to designate the law of the Twelve Tables, and sometimes merely a law which was in force previous to the passage of a subsequent law. Calvin. ----- Vex ----- To harass, disquiet, annoy; as by repeated litigation upon More...
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