LaL The words “to-wit,” or “that is to say,” so frequently used in pleading, are technically called the “videlicet” or “scilicet;” and when any fact alleged In pleading is preceded by, or accompanied with, these words, such fact is, in the lan-guage of tho law, said to be “laid under a videlicet.” The use of the videlicet is to point out, particularize, or render more specific that which bas been previously stated in general language only; also to explain that which is doubtfnl or obscure. Brown. See Stukeley v. Butler, Hob. 171; Gleason ▼. MeVickar, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 43; Sullivan ▼. State. 67 Miss. 346, 7 Sonth. 275; Clark v. Employers’ Liabllity Assur. Co.. 72 VL 458, 48 Atl. 689; Com. v. Quinlan, 153 Mass. 483, 27 N. B.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
