L. Fr. In old English law. A vivum vadium or living pledge, as distin-guished from a mortgage or dead pledge. Properly, an estate given as security for a debt, the debt to be satisfied out of the rents, issues, and profits. … [Read more...] about VIF-GAGE
VIIS ET MODIS
Lat. In the ecclesiastical courts, service of a decree or citation viis et mod is, i.e., by all "ways and means" likely to affect the party with knowledge of its contents; is equivalent to substituted service in the temporal courts, and is opposed to personal service. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1258, 1283. … [Read more...] about VIIS ET MODIS
VIEW ORDINANCE
Local laws which prevent a property owner from having their views obstructed by objects on the land of another such as trees but generally not buildings or other permanent structures. … [Read more...] about VIEW ORDINANCE
VIEWERS
Persons who are appointed by a court to make an investigation of certain matters, or to examine a particular locality, (as, the proposed site of a new road,) and to report to the court the result of their inspection, with their opinion on the same. In old practice. Persons appointed under writs of view to testify the view. Rose Real Act. 253. … [Read more...] about VIEWERS
VIGILANTE
An individual who enforces the law without authority and seeks to punish an alleged criminal for wrongdoing. … [Read more...] about VIGILANTE