Crimes involving the use of significant force, e.g. battery. … [Read more...] about VIOLENT CRIME
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VIOLENT DEATH
Death caused by violent external means, as distinguished from natural death, caused by disease or the wasting of the vital forces. … [Read more...] about VIOLENT DEATH
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Lat. In the civil law. A defender. … [Read more...] about VINDEX
VIOLENT PROFITS
Scotch law. The gains made by a tenant holding over, are so called. … [Read more...] about VIOLENT PROFITS
VINDICARE
Lat. In the civil law. To claim, or challenge; to demand one's own; to assert a right in or to a thing; to assert or claim a property in a thing; to claim a thing as one's own. Calvin. … [Read more...] about VINDICARE