Also known as: verray · very · true
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A historical adjective from Law French denoting the quality of being true or genuine.
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Valentina Vasquez told Victor Vargas that a supplier had confirmed delivery dates. Victor later repeated the dates to a third party without qualification. When the dates proved accurate, the court treated Victor's repetition as manifesting adoption of a veray representation.
Valerie Viera accepted a watch from a known thief who placed it in a location she had designated. The watch still bore its original serial numbers and had not been recovered by police. Prosecutors charged her with the misdemeanor because she received property she knew to be veray stolen goods.
Victor Vargas forged a deed to land owned by Victoria Vernon and recorded it. A later buyer took the property without notice of the forgery. Under the recording act the buyer could not claim protection because the forged deed was veray void from the outset.
Vivid Media published an article about a private citizen's business practices. The citizen sued and the court required her to prove the statements were not veray true. The First Amendment displaced any common-law presumption of falsity because the matter concerned public concern.
Virgil Vaughn told a colleague he had diverted corporate funds to a personal account. The statement exposed him to civil liability and was offered against him at trial. The court admitted it because a reasonable person would have made the statement only if he believed it to be veray true.
Viktor Voronin offered an expert who relied on a novel methodology. The court examined whether the underlying studies were veray reliable before admitting the testimony. The inquiry focused on whether the expert's conclusions rested on sound scientific principles.
The term is a Law French adjective meaning true or genuine. It is an older spelling of the modern French vrai.
…case the mandamus ought not to issue if the report did not confer a legal right. That doctrine is not novel now advanced. It is true the mandamus now sought is not for performance of an act expressly enjoined by statute but to deliver a commission where the acts of Congress are silent. That difference does not affect the…