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The abuse of force. That force which is employed against common right, against the laws, and against public liberty. In cases of robbery, in order to convict the accused, it is requisite to prove that the act was done with violence; but this violence is not confined to an actual assault of the person, by beating, knocking down, or forcibly wresting from him on the contrary, … [Read more...] about VIOLENCE

Characterized or caused by violence; severe; assailing the person (and metaphorically, the mind) with a great degree of force. Violent death. Death caused by violent external means, as distinguished from natural death, caused by disease or the wasting of the vital forces. Violent presumption. In the law of evidence. Proof of a fact by the proof of circumstances which … [Read more...] about VIOLENT

Crimes involving the use of significant force, e.g. battery. … [Read more...] about VIOLENT CRIME

In old English law, this word was used to signify the parts into which a hundred or wapentake was divided. It also signifies a town or city. Demi vill. A town consisting of five freemen, or frank pledges. Spelman. Villa est ex pluribus mansionibus vi cinata, et collata ex pluribus vicinis, et sub appellatione villarum continentur burgl et civitates. Vill is a neighborhood of … [Read more...] about VILL

Latin: In the Roman law, an obligation is defined as a vinculum juris, i. c, "a bond of law," whereby one party becomes or is bound to another to do something according to law. … [Read more...] about VINCULUM JURIS