A wager is a contract by which two or more parties agree that a certain sum of money or other thing shall be paid or delivered to one of them on the happening of an uncertain event or upon the ascertainment of a fact which is in dispute between them. A contract in which the parties stipulate that they shall gain or lose upon the happening of an uncertain event in which they … [Read more...] about WAGER
WAIVE
1. To abandon or forsake a right. 2. To waive signifies also to abandon without right; as if the felon waives, that is, leaves any goods in his flight from those who either pursue him, or are apprehended by him so to do, he forfeits them, whether they be his own goods, or goods stolen by him. 3. A term applied to a woman as outlaw is applied to a man. A man is an outlaw, a … [Read more...] about WAIVE
VULGARIS PURGATTO
[Latin] old English law. Common purgation; a name given to the trial by ordeal, to distinguish it from the canonical purgation, which was by the oath of the party. 4 Bl. Comm. 342. … [Read more...] about VULGARIS PURGATTO
VUXANUM SERVITIUM
In old English law. Villein service. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 13, … [Read more...] about VUXANUM SERVITIUM
VULGO QUASITI
(Latin) In the civil law. Spurious children; literally, gotten from the people; the offspring of promiscuous cohabitation, who are considered as having no father. Inst. 3, 4, 3; Id. 3, 5, 4. … [Read more...] about VULGO QUASITI