Legal Definition and Related Resources of Voco
Meaning of Voco
(Lat.) In civil and old English law. I call; I summon; I vouch. In jus voco te, I summon you to court; I summon you before the praetor. The formula by which a Roman action was anciently commenced. Adams, Rom. Ant. 242. Voco talem, I call or vouch such a one. The old formula of vouching to warranty. Bracton, fol. 382b.
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Concept of “Voco”
Traditional meaning of voco in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) I call; I summon; I vouch.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Voco”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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