Accrued; fixed; settled; absolute; having the character or giving the rights of absolute ownership; not contingent; not subject to be defeated by a condition precedent. See Scott v. west, 63 wis. 529, 24 N. W; 161; McGillis v. McGillis, 11 App. Div. 359, 42 N. Y. Supp. 924; Smlth v. Pros-key, 39 Mlsc. Rep. 385, 79 N. Y. Supp. 851
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Lat. in the law of evidence, a vestige, mark, or 'sign; a trace, track, or lmpresslon left by a physical object. Fleta, 1.1, c. 25, $ 6
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To accrue to; to be fixed; to take effect; to give a fixed and indefeasible right An estate is vested in possession when there exists a right of present enjoyment; and an estate is vested in lnterest wben there is a
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They that are immediate lord and tenant one to another. Cowell.
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A shl0, brig, sloop, or other craft used in navigation. The word is more comprebenslve than “shlp.”
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Lat. In the civil law. To be employed; to be conversant Versori male in tutela, to misconduct one’s self in a guardianship. Calvin
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LaL Against In the tltle of a cause, the name of the plaintiff is put first, followed by the word “versus,” then the defendant’s name. Thus, “Fletcher versus Peck,” or “Fletcher against Peck.” The word is commonly abbrevlated “vs." or “v
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To confirm or substantiate by oath; to show to be true. Particularly used of making formal oath to accounts, petitions, pleadings, and other papers
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Lat. In the clvil law. A slave born in hls master's house
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In Bkiglish law. officers who carry white wands before the justices of either bench. Cowell. Mentioned ln
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or VIRGE. In English law*. The compass of the royai court, which bounds the jurisdiction of the lord steward of the household; it seems to have been twelve miles about Britt. 68. A quantity of iand from fifteen to thirty acres. 28 Edw. I. Al-8o a stick, or roti, whereby one is admitted tenant to a copyhold estate, old Nat Brev. 17
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In Saxon law. A mulct or fine for a crime. See Weregild
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Sax. In old records. A packet-boat or transport vessel. Cowell
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L. Lat in old English law. A verdict; a declaration of the truth of a matter in issue, submitted to a jury for trial
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An officer of the king's forest, who is sworn to maintain and keep the assizes of the forest, and to view, receive, and enroll the attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses of vert and venl-son in the forest. Manw. c. 6, § 5
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In practice. The formal nnd unanimous decision or fluding of a jury, im-paneled and sworn for the trial of a canse, npon the matters or questions duly submitted to them upon the trial
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Parol; by word of mouth; oral; as. verbal agreement, verbal evidence; or written, but not signed, or not executed with the formalities required for a deed
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In pleading nnd practice. A neighborhood; the neighborhood, place, or county in whlch- an injury is declared to have been done, or fact declared to have hap-pened. 3 Bl. Comm. 294
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AY. L. Fr. True. An old form of vrai. Thus, reray, or true, tenant, is one •who bolds in fee-simple; veray tenant by the manner, is the same as tenant by the man-ner, (q. v.,) with this difference ouly: that the fee-simple, instead of reniainlng in the lord, is given by hlm or by the law to an-other. Ham. N. P. 393, 394
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The belly or woipb. The term is used in law as designat-ing the maternal parentage of children. Thus, where In ordinary phraseology we Should say that A. was B.’s chlld by his first wife, he would be described In law as “by the first venter.” Brown
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