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Vacation
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VacationThat period of time between the end of one term and beginning of another. During vacation, rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers.
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Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.
Vacation
That period of time between the end of one term and beginning of another. During vacation, rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
Chambers
Practice. When a judge decides some interlocutory matter, which has arisen in the course of the cause, out of court, he is said to make such decision at his chambers.
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Vacancy
A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.
Vacant possession
Estates. An estate which has been abandoned by the tenant; the abandonment must be complete in order to make the possession vacant, and therefore if the tenant have goods on the premises, it will not be so considered.
Vacant succession
An inheritance for which the heirs are unknown
Vacantia, bona
Civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat.
Vacate
To set aside.
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Vacancy
A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.
Vacant possession
Estates. An estate which has been abandoned by the tenant; the abandonment must be complete in order to make the possession vacant, and therefore if the tenant have goods on the premises, it will not be so considered.
Vacant succession
An inheritance for which the heirs are unknown
Vacantia, bona
Civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat.
Vacate
To set aside.
Vacation
Vaccaria
Old English law. A word which is derived from vacca, a cow, and signifies a dairy-house.
Vadium
Contracts. A pledge, or surety
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 estate in fee, on condition that if the money be not repaid at the time appointed, the estate so put in pledge shall continue to the lender as dead or gone from the mortgagor.
Vadium vivum
Contracts. A species of security by which the borrower of a sum of money, made over his estate to the lender, until he had received that sum out of the issues and profits of the land; it was so called because neither the money nor the lands were lost, and were not left in lead pledge, but this was a living pledge, for the profits of the land were constantly paying off the debt.
Vagabond
One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. The ordonnances of the French define a vagabond almost in the same terms.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Time
Contracts, evidence, practice. The measure of duration., It is divided into years, months. days, hours, minutes, and seconds. It is also divided into day and night. 2) Pleading. The avertment of time is generally necessary in pleading; the rules are different, in different actions.
Term
1) Construction. Word; expression speech. 2) Contracts. This word is used in the civil, law to denote the space of time granted to the debtor for discharging his obligation; there are express terms resulting from the positive stipulations of the agreement; as, where one undertakes to pay a certain sum on a certain day and also terms which tacitly result from the nature of the things which are the object of the engagement, or from the place where the act is agreed to be done. For instance, if a builder engage to construct a house for me, I must allow a reasonable time for fulfilling his engagement. 3) Estates. The limitation of an estate, as a term for years, for life, and the like. The word term does not merely signify the time specified in the lease, but the estate also and interest that passes by that lease; and therefore the term may expire during the continuance of the time, as by surrender, forfeiture and the like. 4) Practice. The space of time during which a court holds a session; sometimes the term is a monthly, at others it is a quarterly period, according to the constitution of the court.
Vacation
That period of time between the end of one term and beginning of another. During vacation, rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Orders
1) Rules made by a court or other competent jurisdiction. The formula is generally in those words: It is ordered, &c. 2) Orders also signify the instructions given by the owner to the captain or commander of a ship which he is to follow in the course of the vovage.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
Chambers
Practice. When a judge decides some interlocutory matter, which has arisen in the course of the cause, out of court, he is said to make such decision at his chambers.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Vacancy
A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.
Vacant possession
Estates. An estate which has been abandoned by the tenant; the abandonment must be complete in order to make the possession vacant, and therefore if the tenant have goods on the premises, it will not be so considered.
Vacant succession
An inheritance for which the heirs are unknown
Vacantia, bona
Civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat.
Vacate
To set aside.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Vacancy
A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled.
Vacant possession
Estates. An estate which has been abandoned by the tenant; the abandonment must be complete in order to make the possession vacant, and therefore if the tenant have goods on the premises, it will not be so considered.
Vacant succession
An inheritance for which the heirs are unknown
Vacantia, bona
Civil law. Goods without an owner. Such goods escheat.
Vacate
To set aside.
Vacation
Vaccaria
Old English law. A word which is derived from vacca, a cow, and signifies a dairy-house.
Vadium
Contracts. A pledge, or surety
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 estate in fee, on condition that if the money be not repaid at the time appointed, the estate so put in pledge shall continue to the lender as dead or gone from the mortgagor.
Vadium vivum
Contracts. A species of security by which the borrower of a sum of money, made over his estate to the lender, until he had received that sum out of the issues and profits of the land; it was so called because neither the money nor the lands were lost, and were not left in lead pledge, but this was a living pledge, for the profits of the land were constantly paying off the debt.
Vagabond
One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. The ordonnances of the French define a vagabond almost in the same terms.
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