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Terms
- Vacatur
- Latin: to set aside a judgment.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vacatur
- Vagrancy
- A criminal offence of being intentionally unemployed and thereby neglecting to maintain himself or his family.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vagrancy
- Vagrant
- A tramp or homeless person.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vagrant
- Valeat Quantum Valere Potest
- Latin: it shall have effect as far as it can have effect.
Expanded Legal Definition of Valeat Quantum Valere Potest
- Valuation
- An expert's assessment, appraisal or opinion as to the market value of an item of property.
Expanded Legal Definition of Valuation
- Vana Est Illa Potentia Quae Nunquam Venit In Actum
- Latin: power is vain if never put into action.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vana Est Illa Potentia Quae Nunquam Venit In Actum
- Vehicle
- Any thing that is designed to transport persons or objects.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vehicle
- Venditio
- Latin: a sale.
Expanded Legal Definition of Venditio
- Venditio Bonorum
- Latin: sale of goods.
Expanded Legal Definition of Venditio Bonorum
- Vendor
- The seller; the person selling.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vendor
- Venue
- Location or proposed district of a judicial hearing.
Expanded Legal Definition of Venue
- Verba Fortius Accipiuntur Contra Proferentem
- Latin: a contract is interpreted against the person who wrote it.
Expanded Legal Definition of Verba Fortius Accipiuntur Contra Proferentem
- Verdict
- The decision of a jury.
Expanded Legal Definition of Verdict
- Vessel
- Watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vessel
- Vexatious Action
- Litigation undertaken to annoy or oppress.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vexatious Action
- Vicarious Liability
- Liability for the tort of another even though the person being held responsible may not have done anything wrong.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vicarious Liability
- Videlicet
- Latin: to wit or that is to say.
Expanded Legal Definition of Videlicet
- Vigilantibus Et Non Dormientibus Jura Subveniunt
- Latin: the law assists those that are vigilant with their rights, and not those that sleep thereupon.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vigilantibus Et Non Dormientibus Jura Subveniunt
- Vinculum Juris
- Latin: a legal bound.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vinculum Juris
- Vir
- Latin: man or husband.
Expanded Legal Definition of Vir
- Viva Voce
- Latin: by voice.
Expanded Legal Definition of Viva Voce
- Viz
- Abbreviation of the Latin word videlicet.
Expanded Legal Definition of Viz
- Voidable
- A legal entitlement, such as a contract, that is extinguishable at the option of a party.
Expanded Legal Definition of Voidable
- Void or Void Ab Initio
- Not legally binding. A document that is void is useless and worthless; as if it did not exist.
Expanded Legal Definition of Void or Void Ab Initio
- Voir Dire
- A mini-hearing held during a trial on the admissibility of contested evidence.
Expanded Legal Definition of Voir Dire
- Volenti Non Fit Injuria
- Latin: to one who is willing, no harm is done.
Expanded Legal Definition of Volenti Non Fit Injuria
- Voluntary Disclosure
- A tax amnesty program whereby a delinquent taxpayer discloses information not previously reported to a tax agency, and by doing so voluntarily, avoids liability to penalty or prosecution normally associated with prior non-disclosure.
Expanded Legal Definition of Voluntary Disclosure
- Voyage
- In maritime law, the time of a ship's transit from one place to another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Voyage
- Voyeurism
- The secret viewing of another person in a place where that person would have a reasonable expectation of privacy, for the purposes of the viewer's sexual arousal
Expanded Legal Definition of Voyeurism
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