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| VACANCY | | <P>A place which is empty. The term is principally applied ... |
| VACANT POSSESSION | | estates. An estate which has been abandoned by the tenant; ... |
| VACANT SUCCESSION | | An inheritance for which the heirs are unknown. ... |
| VACANTIA, BONA | | civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat. ... |
| VACATION | | That period of time between the end of one term ... |
| VACCARIA | | old Engl. law. A word which is derived from vacca, ... |
| VADIUM | | contracts. A pledge, or surety. ... |
| VADIUM MORTUUM | | contracts. A mortgage or dead-pledge; it is a security given ... |
| VADIUM VIVUM | | contracts. A species of security by which the borrower of ... |
| VAGABOND | | One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. ... |
| VAGRANT | | Generally by the word vagrant is understood a person who ... |
| VAGUENESS | | <P>Uncertainty.</P><P>2. Certainty is required in contracts, wills, pleadings, judgments, and ... |
| VALI | | An act, deed, will, and the like, which has received ... |
| VALUABLE CONSIDERATION | | contracts. An equivalent for a thing purchased. Vide Vin. Ab. ... |
| VALUATION | | The act of ascertaining the worth of a thing; or ... |
| VALUE | | common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes ... |
| VALUE RECEIVED | | This phrase is usually employed in a bill of exchange ... |
| VALUED POLICY | | A valued policy is one where the value has been ... |
| VARIANCE | | pleading, evidence. A disagreement or difference between two parts of ... |
| VASSAL | | feudal law. This was the name given to the holder ... |
| VECTIGALIA | | Among the Romans this word signified duties which were paid ... |
| VEJOURS | | An obsolete word, which signified viewers or experts. (q. v.) ... |
| VENAL | | Something that is bought. The term is generally applied in ... |
| VENDEE | | contr. A purchaser; (q. v.) a buyer. ... |
| VENDITIO | | A sale; the act of selling. ... |
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