Vicontiel, are such writs as are triable in the county, before the sheriff. Cow. Int.

Vinculo matrimonii, divorce a, is a divorce from the bonds of matrimony. 3 Bl. Com 94.

Voir dire, is where the party is examined upon oath to make true answer to such questions as the court shall demand of him. 3 Bl. Com. -332. 370.

W.

Waifs (bona waviata) are goods stolen, and thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended. 1 Bl. Com. 296.

In

Waive (waviare, law Lat.) is a term which signifies to forsake or relinquish. A woman is said to be waived, not outlawed as a man; because she is not sworn in the leet to the king, or to the law. other words, she does not take the oath of allegiance. See T. L. 663. Withernam. is a term appliable to the writ of replevin, and is used when the distrainer for rent removes the property distrained out of the county, and the sheriff returns that it is eloigned; thereupon a capias in withernam issues (in vetito namio) commanding him to take the goods of the distrainor, and keep them till the distress be forth coming. And goods thus taken in withernam cannot be replevied. 3 Bl. Com.

149.

B.

Book.

B.

B. L. D. Burn's Law Dictionary.

B. R. Banco Regis. In the court of king's bench.

B. R. H. Banco Regis Hardwicke. Cases in the king's bench, in the time of Lord Hardwicke.

Bac, Abr. Bacon's Abridgment (7th edit. by Gwillim.)
Barnes. Barnes's Notes.

Binn. Binny's Reports (Pennsylvania.)

Bl. Com. Blackstone's Commentaries.

W. Bl. Rep. William Blackstone's Reports.

H. Bl. Henry Blackstone's Reports.

Bradb, Distr. Bradby on Distresses (Riley's edit.)

Bridg. Bridgman's Reports.

Bro. Ch. Ca. Brown's Cases in Chancery.

Bro. P. C. Brown's Parliamentary Cases.

Boss. & Pull. Bosanquent and Puller's Reports.

Bull. N. P. Buller's Nisi Prius.

Bulstr. Bulstrode's Reports.

Bunb. Bunbury's Reports.

Burn. E. L. Burn's Ecclesiastical Law.

Burr. Burrow's Reports

C. Chapter.

Ca. in Ch, Cases in Chancery.

C.

Ca. temp. Finch. Cases in Chancery, in the time of sir Haneage Finch. Ca. temp. Talb. Cases in Chancery, in the time of lord Talbot.

C. B. (Bancus Communis) Common Bench, or court of common

pleas.

Ch. Decis. Decisions of Cases, in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery (by George Wythe, late judge of that court.)

Christ. Notes. Christian's Notes to Blackstone's Commentaries. Co. Coke's Reports. The references are always to the parts and not the volumes.

Co. Lit.

Coke on Littleton.

Comb. Comberbach's Reports.

Comy, on Cont. Comyn on Contracts (Riley's edit.)
Comy. Dig. Comyns's Digest (fifth edit. by Rose.)
Cor. Int. Cowell's Interpreter.

Cowp. Cowper's Reports.

Cranch. Cranch's Reports.

Cr. Cir. Assist. Crown Circuit Assistant.
Cr. Cir. Comp. Crown Circuit Companion.

Cro. Eliz.
Cro. Jac.
Cro. Car.
Cruise Dig.

Croke's Reports, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Croke's Reports in the reign of James the First.
Croke's Reports in the reign of Charles the First,
Cruise's Digest of the Law, on real property.

D.

Dall. Dallas's Reports (Pennsylvania.)

Day's Ca. Err. Day's Cases in Error (Connecticut.)

Dalt. Dalton's Justice.

Dyer. Dyer's Reports.

Doug. Douglas's Reports.

F. N. B.

Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium.

Fearne Cont. Rem. Fearne's Contingent Remainders.

Fearne Ex. Dev. Fearne's Executory Devises.

Fitzg. Fitzgibbon's Reports.

Fost.

Foster's Crown Law.

Forrest. Forrester's Reports (the same as cases temp. Talbot)

Gilb. Ev. Gilbert's Law of Evidence (seventh edit. by Sedgwick.) Gilb. Rents. Gilbert on Rents.

Godolph. O. L. Godolphin's Orphan's Legacy.

Godolph, Rep. Can. Godolphin's Repertorium Canonicum.
Goldsb. Goldsborough's Reports.

H.

H. & M. Hening and Munford's Reports (Virginia.)
Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown.

Hale.

Hal, C. L. Hale's History of the Common Law.

Hardr. Hardres's Reports.

Harr. Ch. Pr. Harrison's Chancery Practice (Farrand's edit.) Haw. Hawkins's Pleas of the Crown. The references are generally to the book, chapter and section.

Hob. Hobart's Reports.

M.

Mar Nal. Ev. Mac Nally's Evidence, on Pleas of the Crown.

March. March's Reports.

Mass. T. R. Massachusetts Term Reports.

Mod. Ca. Modern Cases, in the time of Holt.

Mod. Modern Reports.

Mo. Moore's Reports.

N.

New. Ref. New Reports, by Bosanquet and Puller.
N. Y. Term Rep. New York Term Reports, by Caines.

Ons. N. P. Onslow's Nisi Prius.

Owen. Owen's Reports.

O.*

P.

Palm. Palmer's Reports.

Peake, Ca, N. P. Peake's Cases at Nisi Prius.
Peake, Ev.

Peake's Law of Evidence.

Penningt. Pennington's Reports (New Jersey.)
Perk. Perkins's Laws of England.

P. Will.

Peere William's Reports.

Plowd. Plowden's Commentaries, or Reports.
Poph. Popham's Reports.

Post. After.

Rastell's Entries.

Ridgw. Ridgway's Reports.

Reg. Brev.

Rep. in Ch.

1 Rev. Code.

2 Rev. Code.

Registrum Brevium, or the Register of Writs.
Reports in Chancery.

The first volume of the Revised Code of Virginia Laws, published in 1803, by Pleasants and Pace.

The second volume of the Revised Code of Virginia Laws, published in 1808, by Pleasants.

Rol. Roll's Abridgement.