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  • VINDICARE
    Lat. In the civil law. To claim, or challenge; to demand one's own; to assert a right in or to a thing; to assert or claim a property in a thing; to claim a thing as one's own. Calvin.
  • VINDICATIO
    Lat. In. the civil law. The claiming a thing as one's own; the as¬serting of a right or title In or to a thing.
  • VINDICATORY PARTS OF LAWS
    The sanction of the laws, whereby it Is sig-nified what evil or penalty shall be incurred by such as commit any public wrongs, and transgress or neglect their duty. 1 Steph. Comm. 87.
  • VINDICTA
    In Roman law. A rod or wand; and, from the use of that Instrument in their course, various legal acts came to be distinguished by the term; e. p., one of the three ancient modes of manumission was by the vindicta; also the rod or wand intervened in the progress More...
  • VINDICTIVE DAMAGES
    See DAMAGES.
  • VINOUS LIQUORS
    This term includes all alcoholic beverages made from the juice of the grape by the process of fermentation, and perhaps similar liquors made from ap¬ples and from some species of berries; but not pure alcohol nor distilled liquors nor malt liquors such as beer and ale. See Ad¬ler v. State, More...
  • VIOL
    Fr. In French law. Rape. Bar¬ring, Ob. St. 139.
  • VIOLATION
    Injury; Infringement; breach of right, duty, or law. Ravishment; seduction. The statute 25 Edw. III. St. 5, c. 2, enacts that any person who shall violate the king's companion shall be guilty of high treason.
  • VIOLATION OF SAFE CONDUCTS
    An offense against the laws of nations. 4 Steph. Comm. 217.
  • VIOLENCE
    The term "violence" is synonymous with "physical force," and the two are used interchangeably, in relation to assaults, by elementary writers on criminal law. State v. Wells, 31 Conn. 212.
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