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To certify, confirm that something or someone is bona fide or qualified. To call upon; to call in to warranty ; to call upon the grantor or warrantor to defend the title to an estate. To vouch is to call upon, rely on, or quote as an authority. Thus, in the old writers, to vouch a case or report is to quote it as an authority. … [Read more...]
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contracts. One made freely, without constraint, by the owner of the thing. … [Read more...]
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In common recoveries, the person who is called to warrant or defend the title is called the "vouchee." Common vouchee. In common recoveries, the person who is vouched to warranty. In this fictitious proceeding the crier of the court usually performs the office of a common vouchee. … [Read more...]
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A willing statement made by a person without any coercion, such as a voluntary statement of a defendant as to what transpired and which may be incriminating. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
(A) accounts. An account book in which are entered the acquittances, or warrants for the accountant's discharge. It also signifies any acquittance or receipt, which is evidence of payment, or of the debtor's being discharged. See 3 Halst. 299. (B) common recoveries. The voucher in common recoveries, is the person on whom the tenant to the praecipe calls to defend the title to … [Read more...]