VENIRE, OR VENIRE PACIAS JURATORES, practice. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff commanding him to cause to come from the body of the county b...
VASSAL, feudal law. This was the name given to the holder of a fief, bound to perform feudal service; this word was then always correlative to that of...
VALUED POLICY. 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...
VALID. An act, deed, will, and the like, which has received all the formalities required by law, is said to be valid or good in law.VALUABLE CONSIDERA...
VADIUM MORTUUM, contracts. A mortgage or dead-pledge; it is a security given by the borrower of a sum of money, by which he grants to the lender an es...
VACANCY. A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.2. By the constitution of the United States, t...
UTERINE BROTHER, domestic relations. A brother by the mother's side.UTI POSSIDETIS. This phrase, which means as you possess, is used in internatio...
USURPER, government. One who assumes the right of government by force, contrary to and in violation of the constitution of the country. Toull. Dr. Civ...
USUFRUCTUARY, civil law. One who has the right and enjoyment of an usufruct.2. Domat, with his usual clearness, points out the duties of the usufructu...
USEFUL. That which may be put into beneficial practice.2. The patent act of congress of July 4, 1836, sect. 6, in describing the subjects of patents, ...