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  • VISITATION
    Inspection; superintendence; direction; regulation. A power given by law to the founders of all eleemosy- nary corporations. 2 Kent, Connn. 300-308; 1 Bl. Comm. 480, 481. In England, the vis-itation of ecclesiastical corporations belongs to the ordinary. Id. See Trustees of Union Baptist Ass'n v. Hunn, 7 Tex. Civ. App. More...
  • VISITATION BOOKS
    In English law. Books compiled by the heralds, when progresses were solemnly and regularly made Into every part of the kingdom, to Inquire into the state of families, and to register such marriages and descents as were verified to them upon oath; they were allowed to he good evidence of More...
  • VISITOR
    An inspector of the government of corporations, or bodies politic.
  • VISITOR OF MANNERS
    The regarder's office in the forest. Manw. 1. 195.
  • VISNE
    L. Fr. The neighborhood; vicinage; venue. Ex parte McNeeley, 36 W. Va. 84, 14 S. E 436, 15 L. R. A. 226, 32 Am. St Rep. 831; State v. Kemp, 34 Minn. 61, 24 N. W. 349.
  • VISITS
    Lat In old English practice. View; inspection, either of a place or person.
  • VITIATE
    To impair; to make void or voidable; to cause to fail of force or effect; to destroy or annul, either entirely or in part, the legal efficacy and binding force of an act or instrument; as when it is said that fraud vitiates a contract.
  • VITILIGATE
    To litigate cavilously, vexatioukly, or from merely quarrelsome mo-tives.
  • VITIOUS INTROMISSION
    In Scotch law. An unwarrantable intermeddling with the movable estate of a person deceased, without the order of law. Ersk. Prin. b. 3, tit 9, | 25. The irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which subjects the party to the whole debts of the deceased. 2 Karnes, More...
  • VITIUM CLERICI
    In old English law. The mistake of a clerk; a clerical error. Vitinm eleriei nooere non debet. Jenk. Cent 23. A clerical error ought not to hurt. Vitinm est qnod fngi debet, nisi, ra-tionem non invenias, mox legem sine rations esse clames. Ellesm. Post N. 86. It is a fault More...
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