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Virga






Virga

An obsolete word, which signifies a rod or staff, such as sheriffs, bailiffs, and constables carry, as a badge or ensign of their office.

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Obsolete
This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed.

Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.

Badge
A mark or sign worn by some persons, or placed upon certain things for the purpose of designation.

Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it



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Violation
An act done unlawfully and with force. In the English stat. it is declared to be high treason in any person who shall violate the king's companion; and it is equally high treason in her to suffer willingly such violation. This word has been construed under this statute to mean carnal knowledge.

Violence
The abuse of force. Theorie des Lois Criminelles. That force which is employed against common right, against the laws, and against public liberty

Violent profits
Scotch law. The gains made by a tenant holding over, are so called

Violently
Pleading. This word was formerly supposed to be necessary in an indictment, in order to charge a robbery from the person, but it has been holden unnecessary.

Vir
Latin: man or husband. Vir et uxor censentur in lege una persona is an old (and long abandoned in most countries) legal principle meaning that man and wife are considered to be one person in law.

Virga

Virilia
The privy members of a man.

Virtute officii
By virtue of his office. A sheriff, a constable, and some other officers may, virtute officii, apprehend a man who has been guilty of a crime in their presence.

Virus
In computer operations, a program that is deliberately released to a system with the ability to replicate itself and spread by attaching unauthorized data to files. Viruses can be benign, just taking up disk storage space, or they may be vicious and actually destroy data or deny authorized access.

Vis
An abbreviation of the Latin word videlicet. Short for "namely" or "that is to say."

Vis impressa
Immediate force; original force. This phrase is applied to cases of trespass when a question arises whether an injury has been caused by a direct force, or one which is indirect. When the original force, or vis impressa, had ceased to act before the injury commenced, then there is no force, the effect is mediate, and the proper remedy is trespass on the case.

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