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  • VENAL
    Something that ia bought; capable of feeing bought; offered for sale; mercenary. Used in an evil sense, such pur¬chase or sale being regarded as corrupt and illegal.
  • VENARIA
    Beasts caught in the woods by hunting.
  • VENATIO
    Hunting. Cowell
  • VEND
    To sell; to transfer the ownership of an article to another for a price in money. The term is not commonly applied to the sale of real estate, although its derivatives "vendor" and "vendee" are.
  • VENDER
    A purchaser or buyer; one to whom anything is sold. Generally used of the transferee of real property, one who acquires chattels by sale being called a "buyer". Vendens eandem rem dnobns falsarium est. He is fraudulent who sells the same thing twice. Jenk. Cent 107.
  • VENDIBLE
    Fit or suitable to be sold; capable of transfer by sale; merchantable.
  • VENDITAE
    In old European law. A tax upon things sold in markets and public fairs. Spelman.
  • VENDITIO
    Lat In the civil law. In a strict sense, sale; the act of selling; the contract of sale, otherwise called "emptio vendition Inst 3, 24. Calvin.
  • VENDITION
    Sale; the act of selling.
  • VENDITIONI EXPONAS
    Lat. Yon expose to sale. This is the name of a writ of execution* requiring a sale to be made, directed to a sheriff when he has levied npon goods under a fieri facias, but returned that they remained unsold for want of buyers ; and in some jurisdictions it More...
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