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Viscount, or Vicount
vicecomes, Lat.], an arbitrary title of honour, without any office pertaining to it, created by Henry VI, 2 Inst. 5. See Barr. on Stat. 409. A peer of the fourth order, between earl and baron, 2 Steph.
Vivary or vivarye
Vivary or vivarye [fr. vivarium, Lat.], a place where animals are preserved; a park, warren, piscary, etc., 2 Inst. 100.
Viver, or Vivier
Viver, or Vivier, a fish-pond, 2 Inst. 199
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Voluntas in delicitis non exitus spectatur
Voluntas in delicitis non exitus spectatur (2 Inst. 57), in crimes, the will, and not the result, is looked to.
Voluntas reputatur pro facto
Voluntas reputatur pro facto. 3 Inst. 69.-(The intention is to be taken for the deed.)
Year and a day
must die within a year and a day in order to make the offender guilty of murder: 3 Inst. 53; 6 Rep. 107; and see WRECK.
Yeoman, or Yoman
a 40s. freeholder not advanced to the rank of a gentleman; the highest order among the plebeians, 2 Inst. 668. 1. An attendant in a royal or noble house hold 2. A commoner; a free holder (under
Sulh 'lmyssan
Sulh 'lmyssan, plough arms, Anc. Inst. Eng.
Spoliatus debet ante omnia restitui
Spoliatus debet ante omnia restitui (2 Inst. 714), the despoiled ought to be restored before anything else.
Qui non improbat, approbat
Qui non improbat, approbat (3 Inst. 27), he who does not disapprove, approves.
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