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...]

An epithet used to cast contempt and contumely on the person to whom it is applied. 2. To call a man a villain in a letter written to a third person, will entitle him to an action without proof of special damages. An opprobrious epithet, implying great moral delinquency, and equivalent to knave, rascal, or scoundrel. The word is libelous. … [Read more...]

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...]

A person attached to a manor, who was substantially in the condition of a slave, who performed the base and servile work upon the manor for the lord, and was, in most respects, a subject of property and belonging to him. Villein in gross. A villein who was annexed to the person of the lord, and transferable by deed from one owner to another. Villein regardant. A villein annexed … [Read more...]

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...]