The right of prospect; the outlook or prospect from the windows of one’s house. A species of urban servitude which prohibits the obstruction of such prospect. 3 Kent, Comm. 448. […]

a situation where the jury members leave court to see where an accident or crim occurred.

Persons who are appointed by a court to make an investigation of certain matters, or to examine a particular locality, (as, the proposed site of a new road,) and to […]

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L. Fr. In old English law . A vivum vadium or living pledge, as distin- guished from a mortgage or dead pledge. Properly, an estate given as security for a […]

In ecclesiastical law . The eve or next day before any solemn feast.

Watchfulness; precaution ; a proper degree of activity and promptness in pursuing one’s rights or guarding them from Infraction , or in making or discovering opportunities for the enforcement of […]

Lat. Strength; virtue; force; efficiency. Proprio vigore , by its own force. VIIS ET MODIS1208 VINDEX

Lat. In the ecclesiastical courts , service of a decree or citation viis et modis , i. e., by all ” ways and means ” likely to affect the party […]

In old English law , this word was used to signify the parts into which a hun- dred or wapentake was divided. It also signifies a town or city.

Lat. In Saxon law. A royal residence. Spelman

Any small assemblage of houses for dwellings or business, or both, in the country, whether they are situated upon regularly laid out streets and alleys or not constitutes a village. […]

An opprobrious epithet, Implying great moral delinquency , and equivalent to knave, rascal, or scoundrel. The word is libelous. 1 Bos. & P. 331.

In old English law . Villein service. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 13,

A person attached to a manor, who was substantially in the condition of a slave, who performed the base and servile work upon the manor for the lord, and was, […]

A servile kind of tenure belonging to lands or tenements, whereby the tenant was bound to do all such services as the lord commanded, or were fit for a vil- […]

A judgment which deprived one of his libera lex, whereby he was discredited and disabled as a juror or witness; forfeited his goods and chattels and lands for life; wasted […]

A payment of a certain quantity of wine instead of rent for a vineyard. 2 Mon. Ang. p. 980.

In Spanish law. An entail. Schm. Civil Law, 308.

In Spanish law. The bond, chain, or tie of marriage. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 6, c. 1,

See A VINCULO MATRIMONII ; DIVORCE.

Lat. In tbe Roman law, au obligation is defined as a vinculum juris , i. e., “a bond of law,” whereby one party becomes or is bound to another to […]

Lat. In the civil law . A defender. VINDICARE 1209 VIRGA

Lat. In tlie civil law. To claim, or challenge; to demand one’s own; to assert a right in or to a thing; to assert or claim a property in a […]

Lat. In the civil law . The claiming a thing as one’s own ; the asserting of a right or title in or to a thing.