Law Dictionary

Vide, which see. Versus, which see.

A place which is empty. As applied to official position, has reference to an office that is unoccupied, one without an incumbent; an office not filled. 107 Ark. 386; 155 S. W. 502;

not filled or occupied by an incumbent [or] possessor.

By the renunciation of his widow of her title as partner in community, and her failure to interpose on behalf of her children, the succession was unrepresented, and was what is ter

Unclaimed goods.

A term applied to an estate which has been abandoned by the tenant. The abandonment must be comthe premises, it Will not be so considared. 2 Chit. 177; 2 Strange, 1064; Buller, N.

An inheritance for which the heirs are unknown. VACANTIA BONA (Lat.) In civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat.

To be empty or vacant.

/. A piece of waste ground.

To annul; to render an act void; as, to vacate an entry which has been made on a record when the court has been imposed upon by fraud, or taken by surprise. VACATIO (Lat.) In the c

Immunity; exemption.

That period of time between the end of one term and beg^inning of another. During vacation, rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers. VACAT

See Barrister. V with the national vaccine establishment In 1840 vaccination fees were made payable out of the rates. The first compulsory act was passed in 1853, the guardians of

It is vacated.

An avoidance of an ecclesiastical benefice. Cowell.

In old English law. A dairy-house. Co. Litt. 5b.

Inoculation with vaccine or the virus of cowpox as a preventive against the smallpox; frequently made compulsory by statute. See1 Daniel v. Putnam County, 113 Ga. 570, 38 S. E. 980

The vacant possession, i. e., free and unburdened possession, which, (e. g.) a vendor had and has to give to a purchaser of lands.

Lat In the civil law. Empty; void; vacant; unoceupied. Calvin.

To hold to bail; to give bail.

In old English law. A servant; a ministerial officer. Cowell.

In the civil law, pledges; sureties; bail; security for the appearance of a defendant or accused person in court. Calv. Lex.

Tp wage.

To wage combat. Where two contending parties, on a challenge, give and take a mutual pledge of fighting. Cowell. VADIARE LEGEM (L. Lat) In old English law. To wage law; to give gag

To wage law. See Wager of law .

Lat. (L. Fr. gager). In old English law. Wager. VADIMONIUM (Lat) In the Roman law. Bail or security; the giving of bail for appearance in court; a recognizance. Calv. Lex. VADIUM M

Wager of law, which see.

Lat In Roman law. Bail or security; the giving of bail for ap-pearanco in court; a recognizance. Calvin.

A pledge; a surety.

A dead pledge; a mortgage. See Mortgage .

To take ball or pledges for a defendant's appearance. VADIUM VIVUM (Lat.) A species of security by which the borrower of a sum of money made over his estate to the lender until he

A pledge wherein the profits or income from the property were applied to the payment of the debt secured. See 88 Cal. 437, 22 Am. St. Rep. 314, 13 L. R. A. 137, 26 Pac. 203. See, a

I. I. In old English law. Wager. Vadiatio duelli: wager of battel. Vadiatio legis: wager of law.

In old English law. The king's eldest son; hence the valet or knave follows the king and queen in a pack of cards. Barr. Obs. St. 344. VAGABOND (Fr. and Eng.; from Lat. vagabundus,

The king’s oldest son.

In old records, a ford or wading place. Cowell.

To avoid; to make void; to annul; to leave empty or unoccupied.

A vagrant.

We call him a vagabond who has nowhere acquired a domicile of residence.

Vagrancy Is distinguished from disorderly conduct and breaches of the peace, and includes only such cases of vagabondage as are known to the common law; and its statutory definitio

An idle wanderer with no apparent, honest means of support.

In English law. St 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, which is an act for the punishment of idle and disorderly persons. 2 Chit. St. 145.

In English law. The statute 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, which is an act for the punishment of idle and disorderly persons. 2 Chit. St 145.

vague, not in the sense that it requires a person to conform his conduct to an imprecise but comprehensible normative standard, but rather in the sense that no standard of conduct

Uncertainty. Certainty is required in contracts, wills, pleadings, judgments, and, indeed, in all the acts on which courts have to give a judgment, and if they be vague so as not t

The vice of vagueness in criminal statutes is the treachery they conceal either in determining what persons are included or what acts are prohibited. Words which are vague and flui

The root of the vagueness doctrine is a rough idea of fairness. It is not a principle designed to convert into a constitutional dilemma the practical difficulties in drawing crimin

To compel them to guess, on peril of indictment, what the community would have given for them if the continually changing conditions were other than they are, to an uncertain exten

the law is full of instances where a man's fate depends on his estimating rightly, that is, as the jury subsequently estimates it, some matter of degree. If his judgment is wrong,

The test is whether the language conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices.

The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could not reasonably understand to be proscribed.

A statute which upon its face, and as authoritatively construed, is so vague and indefinite as to permit the punishment of the fair use of this opportunity is repugnant to the guar

vaillaunce, I. fr. "Value.

I. fr. To be worth; to be of the value.

I. fr. v. Valeat quantum, eta

In Spanish law. A promissory note. White, New Recop. bk. 3, tit. 7, c. 5, §3.

It shall have effect as far as it can have effect. Cowp. 600; 4 Kent, Comm. 493; Shep. Touch. 87.

In old English law. A young gentleman; also a servitor or gentleman of the chamber. Cowell.

Value.

?. To be strong; to have force, or validity; to be effectual or operative.

In old English law. The proving by the kindred of the slain, one on the father's side, and another on that of the mother, that a man was a Welshman. VALID (Lat. validus). Strong; e

Was anciently a name denoting young gentlemen of rank and famlly, but afterwards applied in those of lower degree, and is now used for a menial servant, more particularly occupied

Effective; operative.

The reference in section 37 to valid claims 'thereafter maintained in compliance with the laws under which initiated, which claims may be perfected under such laws, including disco

Valid contracts are property, whether the obligor be a private individual, a municipality, a state, or the United States. Rights against the United States arising out of a contract

to constitute a valid delivery on the wharf, the carrier should give due and reasonable notice to the consignee, so as to afford him a fair opportunity of providing suitable means

To constitute a valid entry, it must call for objects notorious at its date; and it must be so special in its particular location, that others might appropriate the adjacent vacant

only a judicial determination in an adversary proceeding ensures the necessary sensitivity to freedom of expression, only a procedure requiring a judicial determination suffices to

Freedom from vices of substance; effectiveness in point of law. It is broader than "form" or "requisites," as they are often applied; "form" signifying only regularity or technical

In affirming a claim to land under a Spanish or Mexican grant, to be valid within the law of nations, the stipulations of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the usages of those G

The validity of a statute, or the validity of an authority, is drawn in question when the existence or constitutionality or legality of such statute or authority is denied, and the

When lands are granted, a description which will identify them is all that is necessary to the validity of the grant. But identity is not all that is necessary to the validity of a

It is undoubtedly essential to the validity of a grant, that there should be a thing granted, which must be so described as to be capable of being distinguished from other things o

This jurisdictional requirement is satisfied only if the record shows that the question of the validity under federal law of the state statute, as construed and applied, has either

Nor can we perceive any reason for not considering the expression 'the validity of the public debt' as embracing whatever concerns the integrity of the public obligations.

When the facts are ascertained there can be very little doubt what constitutes in law a valid seizure as prize. It is clear that some act should be done indicative of an intention

The common understanding of the word valley, as applied to a mountainous country, is as meaning lowlands in contradistinction to mountain slopes and ridges; Whaley v. R. Co., 167 F

The value of a church living.

Value of the marriage, which see.

Of value; having value. Valuable consideration: a consideration which the law regards as an equivalent, as money, goods, lands, services or marriage.

An equivalent in money or value for a thing purchased. See "Consideration."

Every valuable security is a valuable thing, but many valuable things are not valuable securities. The words “other valuable things” include everything of value; State v. Thatcher,

A month’s lodging is a valuable thing within the meaning of a statute providing against the obtaining of any valuable thing by personating a United States officer. U. S. v. Ballard

The act of ascertaining the worth of a thing. The estimated worth of a thing. It differs from "price,"_ which does not- always afford a true criterion of value; for a thing. may be

In Pennsylvania, the assessors who estimate the value of property for taxation.

The clause in question prescribes a measure of recovery rather than limits the amount which may be recovered when loss or damage occurs.

The plaintiff in error was entitled to be paid only for what was taken from him as the titles stood, and could not add to the value by the hypothetical possibility of a change unle

The value should be fixed as of the date of the proceedings, and with reference to the loss the owner sustains, considering the property in its condition and situation at the time

In English Law. A list of all the ratable hereditaments in a parish.

The valuation stipulation fixes in advance of loss the value of the vessel, so as to avoid the necessity of proof of value in order to establish the extent of the liability assumed

the advantage derived from their possession; or, in other words, their utility.

where the shipments have enough relationship so that they may properly be charged as a single offense, their value may be aggregated. The Act defines 'value' in terms of that aggre

the increase in the value of goods and services brought about by whatever a business does to them between the time of purchase and the time of sale.

A valued policy is one where the value has been set on the ship or goods insured, and this value has been inserted in the policy in the nature of liquidated damages, to save the ne

The purpose of valuing the cargo is not to fix the maximum amount of recovery, which is accomplished by limiting the amount of the policy, but to eliminate from the risk which the

Value for exchange is not the only value known to the law of damages. There are times when heed must be given to value for use, if reparation is to be adequate.

All of the economic benefits of a policy must be taken into consideration in determining its value for gift-tax purposes. To single out one and to disregard the others is in effect

Value is the effect in exchange of the relative social desire for compared objects expressed in terms of a common denominator. It is a fact, and generally is more or less easy to a

its value was to be ascertained by the salary paid

As much as a jury would assess, or anyone would bona fide give to the guardian for a marriage with his ward. See 2 Bl. Comm. 70.