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In Spanish law. The bond chain or tie of marriage. … [Read more...] about VINCULO

Lat. In the ecclesiastical courts, service of a decree or citation viis et mod is, i.e., by all "ways and means" likely to affect the party with knowledge of its contents; is equivalent to substituted service in the temporal courts, and is opposed to personal service. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 1258, 1283. … [Read more...] about VIIS ET MODIS

A divorce. A vinculo matrimonii, is one from the bonds of matrimony. Such a divorce generally enables the parties to marry again. See A VINCULO MATRIMONII; DIVORCE. … [Read more...] about VINCULO MATRIMONII

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