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The act of making valid. See validate; confirmation, approval. … [Read more...] about VALIDATION

This term is used to signify legal sufficiency, in contradistinction to mere regularity. "An official sale, an order, judgment, or decree may be regular,the whole practice in reference to its entry may be correct,but still invalid, for reasons going behind the regularity of its forms." … [Read more...] about VALIDITY

An award in arbitration or in a lawsuit that is set aside or removed. … [Read more...] about VACATION OF AWARD

One that wanders about; and has no certain dwelling; an idle fellow. Jacob. Vagabonds are described in old English statutes as "such as wake on the night and sleep on the day, and haunt customable taverns and ale houses and routs about; and no man wot from whence they came, nor whither they go." Vagabundum nuncnpamus eum qui nullibi domicilium contraxit habitationis. We call … [Read more...] about VAGABOND

Lat. Let it be vacated. In practice, a rule or order by which a proceeding is vacated; a vacating. … [Read more...] about VACATUR