Vacatur: Latin: to set aside a judgment. | Legal Definition of Vacatur

Vagrancy: A criminal offence of being intentionally unemployed and thereby neglecting to maintain himself or his family. | Legal Definition of Vagrancy

Vagrant: A tramp or homeless person. | Legal Definition of Vagrant

Vagueness: A law which lacks in precision as not to give sufficient guidance for legal debate. | Legal Definition of Vagueness

Valeat Quantum Valere Potest: Latin: it shall have effect as far as it can have effect. | 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. | Legal Definition of Valuation

Vana Est Illa Potentia Quae Nunquam Venit In Actum: Latin: power is vain if never put into action. | Legal Definition of Vana Est Illa Potentia Quae Nunquam Venit In Actum

Vassal: A subservient, usually land-based relationship to another under the feudal system. | Legal Definition of Vassal

Vehicle: Any thing that is designed to transport persons or objects. | Legal Definition of Vehicle

Venditio: Latin: a sale. | Legal Definition of Venditio

Venditio Bonorum: Latin: sale of goods. | Legal Definition of Venditio Bonorum

Vendor: The seller; the person selling. | Legal Definition of Vendor

Venue: Location or proposed district of a judicial hearing. | Legal Definition of Venue

Verba Fortius Accipiuntur Contra Proferentem: Latin: a contract is interpreted against the person who wrote it. | Legal Definition of Verba Fortius Accipiuntur Contra Proferentem

Verdict: French: truth told; the decision of a jury. | Legal Definition of Verdict

Vessel: Watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. | Legal Definition of Vessel

Vetrovec Warning: Canada: a warning given by a judge to a jury in regards to the frailities of the evidence tendered by certain witnesses. | Legal Definition of Vetrovec Warning

Vexatious Action: Litigation undertaken to annoy or oppress. | 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. | Legal Definition of Vicarious Liability

Videlicet: Latin: to wit or that is to say. | Legal Definition of Videlicet

View: The displacement of a judge and jury to the location of events which are being described at trial. | Legal Definition of View

Vigilantibus Et Non Dormientibus Jura Subveniunt: Latin: the law assists those that are vigilant with their rights, and not those that sleep thereupon. | Legal Definition of Vigilantibus Et Non Dormientibus Jura Subveniunt

Villeinage: A form of slavery under the English feudal land system; the Lord owned a villein outright, as a chattel. | Legal Definition of Villeinage

Vinculum Juris: Latin: a legal bound. | Legal Definition of Vinculum Juris

Vir: Latin: man or husband. | Legal Definition of Vir

Visa: A permit issued by a state allowing for the temporary visit by a citizen of another, for a period of time and a specific purpose. | Legal Definition of Visa

Viva Voce: Latin: by voice. | Legal Definition of Viva Voce

Viz: Latin: to wit, that is to say. | Legal Definition of Viz

Void or Void Ab Initio: Not legally binding. A document that is void is useless and worthless; as if it did not exist. | Legal Definition of Void or Void Ab Initio

Voidable: A legal entitlement, such as a contract, that is extinguishable at the option of a party. | Legal Definition of Voidable

Voir Dire: A mini-hearing held during a trial on the eligibility of prospective jurors or the admissibility of contested evidence. | Legal Definition of Voir Dire

Volenti Non Fit Injuria: Latin: to one who is willing, no harm is done. | 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. | Legal Definition of Voluntary Disclosure

Voluntary Waste: The possessor's direct acts or activity of harming property which he or she holds for another, as in a trustee for a trust beneficiary. | Legal Definition of Voluntary Waste

Voyage: In maritime law, the time of a ship's transit from one place to another. | 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 | Legal Definition of Voyeurism