VOLUNTARY DEPOSIT, civil law. One which is made by the mere consent or agreement of the parties. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1054. VOLUNTARY ESCAPE. The giving t...
VOLUNTARY. Willingly; done with one's consent; negligently. Wolff, §5. 2. To render an act criminal or tortious it must be voluntary. If a ma...
VOIDABLE. That which has some force or effect, but which, in consequence of some inherent quality, may be legally annulled or avoided. 2. As a familia...
VOCATIO IN JUS, Roman civ. law. According to the practice in the legis actiones of the Roman law, a person having a demand against another, verbally c...
VISITATION. The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. 2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemo-synary ...
VIRILIA. The privy members of a man. Bract. lib. 3, p. 144. VIRTUTE OFFICII. By virtue of his office. A sheriff, a constable, and some other officers ...
VIRGINIA. The name of one of the original states of the United States of America. This colony was chartered in 1606, by James the First, and this char...
VIOLATION. An act done unlawfully and with force. In the English stat. of 25 E. III., st. 5, c. 2, it is declared to be high treason in any person who...
VILL. In England this word was used to signify the parts into which a hundred or wapentake was divided. Fortesc. De Laud, ch. 24. See Co. Litt. 115 b....
VIEW, DEMAND OF, practice. In most real and mixed actions, in order to ascertain the identity of land claimed with that in the tenant's possession...