In old English law. Villein service. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 13, … [Read more...]

in the practice of the court of chancery was an answer put in by a defendant when the plaintiff had filed no interrogatories which required to be answered. … [Read more...]

Latin: Properly, volition, purpose, or intention, or a design or the feeling or impulse which prompts the commission of an act; but in old English law the term was often used to denote a will, that is, the last will and testament of a decedent, more properly called testamentum. Voluntas donatoris in charta doni sui manifesto ezpressa observetur. Co. Litt 21. The will of the … [Read more...]

A trip. The acting of traveling, usually for an extended time. marine law. The passage of a ship upon the seas, from one port to another, or to several ports. 2. Every voyage must have a terminus a quo and a terminus ad quem. When the insurance is for a limited time, the two extremes of that time are the termini of the vovage insured. When a ship is insured both outward and … [Read more...]

Where one voluntarily submits to the jurisdiction of the court. … [Read more...]