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  • VIOLENT
    Characterized or caused by violence; severe; assailing the person (and metaphorically, the mind) with a great de¬gree of force. —Violent death. Death caused by violent external means, as distinguished from, natural death, caused by disease or the wasting of the vital forces.—Violent presumption. In the law of evidence. Proof of More...
  • VIOLENTLY
    By the use of force; forcibly ; with violence. The term is used in in-dictments for certain offenses. State v. Blake, 39 Me. 324; State v. Williams, 32 La. Ann. 337, 36 Am. Rep. 272; Craig v. State, 157 Ind. 574, 62 N. E. 5. Viperina est expositio qua) eorrodit More...
  • VIR
    (Latin) A man, especially as marking the sex. In the Latin phrases and maxims of the old English law, this word gen¬erally means "husband," the expression vir et uxor corresponding to the law French baron et feme. Vir et uxor censentur in lege una per-sona. Jenk. Cent. 27. Husband and More...
  • VIRES
    (Latin). Powers; forces; capabilities; natural powers; powers granted or limited. See ULTRA VIRES. Vires acquirit eundo. It gains strength by continuance. Mann v. Mann's Ex'rs, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 231, 237.
  • VIRGA
    In old English law. A rod or staff; a rod or ensign of office. Cowell.
  • VIRGA TERRAE
    In old English law. A yard-land; a measure of land of variable quantity, con¬taining in some places twenty, in others twenty-four, in others thirty, and in others forty,.acres. Cowell; Co. Litt. 5c.
  • VIRGATA REGIA
    In old English law. The verge; the bounds of the king's house-hold, within which the court of the stewarjd had jurisdiction. Crabb, Eng. Law, 186.
  • VIRGATE
    A yard-land.
  • VIRGE, TENANT BT
    A species of copyholder, who holds by the virge or rod.
  • VIRGO INTACTA
    (Latin) A pure virgin.
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