Latin, void from the beginning. Never legitimate or valid. … [Read more...]

Latin: In the civil law. Living water; running water; that which issues from a spring or fountain. Calvin. … [Read more...]

A statute that is so unclear or vague that the average person could not reasonably understand or appreciate its meaning and application makes the statute void on its face. A criminal statute that is vague is unconstitutional since one cannot adhere to the requirements of a law that one could not reasonably understand. … [Read more...]

The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. 2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations. Family Law: The right that a parent, grandparent or other family member or guardian of a child may possess to visit a child who does not live with that person, whereby the person does not have physical custody of the child. … [Read more...]

In English law. Books compiled by the heralds, when progresses were solemnly and regularly made Into every part of the kingdom, to Inquire into the state of families, and to register such marriages and descents as were verified to them upon oath; they were allowed to he good evidence of pedigree. 3 Bl. Comm. 106; 8 Steph. Comm. 724. … [Read more...]