VĂRĬA. [[Majestas].]
VĂTĪNĬA DE PRŌVINCIIS, was the enactment by which Julius Caesar obtained the province of Gallia Cisalpina with Illyricum for five years, to which the senate added Gallia Transalpina. This plebiscitum was proposed by the tribune Vatinius. A Trebonia Lex subsequently prolonged Caesar’s imperium for five years.
VĂTĪNĬA DE CŎLŌNIS, under which the Latina Colonia [[Latinitas]] of Novum-Comum in Gallia Cisalpina was planted, B.C. 59.
VĂTĪNIA DE REJECTIŌNE JŪDĬCUM. (Cic. in Vatin. 11.)
DE VI. [[Vis].]
VĬĀRĬA. A viaria lex which Cicero says the tribune C. Curio talked of; but nothing more seems to be known of it. Some modern writers speak of leges viariae, but there do not appear to be any leges properly so called. The provisions as to roads in many of the Agrarian laws were parts of such leges, and had no special reference to roads.
VISELLĬA, made a Latinus who assumed the rights of an ingenuus liable to prosecution.
VILLĬA ANNĀLIS. [[Lex Annalis].]
VŎCŌNIA, enacted on the proposal of Q. Voconius Saxa, a tribunus plebis, B.C. 169. One provision of the lex was, that no person who should be rated in the census at 100,000 sesterces (centum millia aeris) after the census of that year, should make any female (virginem neve mulierem) his heres. The lex allowed no exceptions, even in favour of an only daughter. It applied simply to testaments, and therefore a daughter or other female could inherit ab intestato to any amount. The vestal virgins could make women their heredes in all cases, which was the only exception to the provisions of the lex. Another provision of the lex forbade a person who was included in the census to give more in amount, in the form of a legacy to any person, than the heres or heredes should take. This provision secured something to the heres or heredes, but still the provision was ineffectual, and the object of the lex was only accomplished by the Lex Falcidia, B.C. 44, which enacted that a testator should not give more than three-fourths in legacies, thus securing a fourth to the heres.