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vouch [Anglo-French voucher to call, summon, summon to court as guarantor of a title, ultimately from Latin vocare to call, summon] vt 1 : to summon into court 2 : to verify (a business transaction) by examining documentary evidence vi 1 : to become surety 2 a : to supply supporting evidence or testimony b : to give personal assurance ...
vouching
vouching : an impermissible practice by a prosecutor of placing the prestige of the government behind its witness or otherwise insinuating to the jury that the prosecutor offers personal assurance of the witness's veracity ...
vouching-in
vouching-in : a common-law procedural device in which a defendant named in a lawsuit notifies another that he or she will look to the other for indemnity of an adverse judgment and that the other will be bound by the judgment if he or she refuses to come and defend in court ...
Vouch
Vouch, to give testimony, to answer for...
Vouche
Vouche [fr. voco, Lat.], to call one to warrant lands....
Recovery
Recovery, the obtaining a thing by judgment or trial.The regaining or restoration of something lost or taken away, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1280.A true recovery is an actual or real recovery of anything, or the value thereof, by judgment; as if a man sue for any land or other thing movable or immovable, and gain a verdict or judgment.A feigned recovery. An abolished common assurance by matter of record, in fraud of the statute De Donis, whereby a tenant-in-tail in possession enlarged his estate-tail into a fee-simple and so barred the entail, and all remainders and reversions expectant there-on, with all conditions and collateral limitations annexed to them, and subsequent charges sub-ordinate to the entail. But incumbrances on the estate-tail equally affected such fee-simple, and any estate or interest prior to the entail remained undisturbed.This assurance consisted of two parts: (1) The recovery itself, which was a fictitious rea action in the Court of Common Pleas, carr...
Forevouched
Formerly vouched or avowed affirmed in advance...
Misvouch
To vouch falsely...
Ad largum
Ad largum (at large), used in the following and other expressions: title at large, common at large, assize at large, verdict at large, to vouch at large, etc....
Advocare
Advocare, [(Lat.) Tyman getyman, Ang., Sax.], to defend, to call to one's aid, also to vouch to warranty....
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