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Vexata quaestio






Vexata quaestio

Vexed question. A question or point of law often discussed or agitated, but not determined nor settled.

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Question
1) Punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge their crimes. 2) Evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 3) Practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury.

Point
Practice. A proposition or question arising in a case.



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Vexation
The injury or damage which, is suffered in consequence of the tricks of another.



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Vetera statuta
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Vexata quaestio

Vexation
The injury or damage which, is suffered in consequence of the tricks of another.

Vexed question
Vexata quaestio. A question or point of law often discussed or agitated, but not determined nor settled.

Vi et armis
With force and arms. When man breaks into another's close vi et armis, he may be opposed force by force, for there is no time to request him to go away.

Via
A cart-way, which also includes a foot-way and a horse-way.

Viability
Medicine, juridical. An aptitude to live after birth; extra uterine life.

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