meaning of vel
“or versus and”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
vel · or or and · the peculiar use of the word 'vel'
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Meaning of 'Vel'1 mention
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (English)
Comparison with the terms of chapter 52 and with those of the corresponding Article of the Barons places the matter almost beyond doubt.
in the texts
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The philological question of whether Magna Carta's disjunctive vel should be understood conjunctively as and.
Having thus given the meanings, or rather the applications, which the words vel per legem terræ will reasonably, and perhaps must necessarily, bear, it is proper to suggest, that it has been supposed by some that the word vel, instead of being rendered by or, as it usually is, ought to be rendered by and, inasmuch as the word vel is often used for et, and the whole phrase nisi per judicium parium …
If the word vel be rendered by and, (as I think it must be, at least in some cases,) this chapter of Magna Carta will then read that no freeman shall be arrested or punished, “unless according to the sentence of his peers, and the law of the land.
that in cases of a judgment, it should be rendered by and, so as to require the concurrence both of “the judgment of the peers and the law of the land,” to authorize the king to make execution upon a party’s goods or person;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The ambiguous Latin conjunction 'vel' in Magna Carta's protective clause, whose disjunctive or conjunctive force is the subject of detailed philological analysis.
Comparison with the terms of chapter 52 and with those of the corresponding Article of the Barons places the matter almost beyond doubt.
The contrast between “vel” and “aut” strengthens the suggestion that “vel” is used in this chapter conjunctively.
Pleas following upon accusations by the injured party were held in 1471 not to fall within the words of Magna Carta.