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  • VITIUM SCRIPTORIA
    In old English law. The fault or mistake of a writer or copyist; a clerical error. Gilb. Forum Rom. 185.
  • VITRICUS
    (Latin) In the civil law. A step-father; a mother's second husband. Calvin.
  • VIVA AQUA
    Lat In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which is¬sues from a spring or fountain. Calvin.
  • VIVA PECUNIA
    (Latin) Cattle, which obtained this name from being received during the Saxon period as money upon most occasions, at certain regulated prices. Cowell.
  • VIVA VOCE
    (Latin). With the living voice; by word of mouth. As applied to the examination of witnesses, this phrase is equivalent to "orally." It is used in contra distinction to evidence on affidavits or depositions. As descriptive of a species of voting, it signifles voting by speech or outcry, as dis¬tinguished More...
  • VIVARIUM
    (Latin) In the civil law. An inclosed place, where live wild animals are kept Calvin; Spelman
  • VIVARY
    In English law. A place for keeping wild animals alive, including fishes; a fish pond, park, or warren.
  • VIVUM VADIUM
    See VADIUM. Via nlla lex neri potest qnss omnibns eommoda sit, sed si major! parti prospi-ciat, ntilia est. Scarcely any law can be made which is adapted to all, but, if it pro-vide for the greater part, it is useful. Plowd 369.
  • VIZ
    A contraction for videlicet, to-wit namely, that is to say.
  • VOCABULA ARTIS
    (Latin) Words of art; technical terms. Voeabula artium enplieaada sunt se-enndui definitiones prudentum. Terms of arts are to be explained according to the definitions of the learned or skilled [in such arts.] Bl. Law Tracts, 6.
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