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oillccr of tlie king's forell, vvhofc bufiiicfb is to look to the 

 vert, and fee it well maisnained. 



He 16 fworn to keep the affizes of the foreft ; as alfo to 

 view, receive, and enrol, the attaclmients and prefentments 

 of all manner of trefpafles, relating to vert and venifon 

 therein. 



VERDERONNE.or La Bouklarderie, in Gfofr^/Aji, 

 a fmall ifland in the gulf of St. Laurence, near the eaft 

 coall of Cape Breton. 



VERDESE, a town of the ifland of Corfica, in the 

 diftrift of Cervionne. 



VERDETER. See Verditer. 



VERDETUM, the name of a green fubftance, ufed as 

 a colour in painting. It is a very pure kind of verdigris, 

 being an rerugo of copper, produced by the vapour of 

 vinegar. 



VERDI, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Indian fea, 

 near the weft coaft of Madagafcar. S. lat. 14° 35'. E. 

 long. 47° 50'. 



VERDICT, from -vere d'lHum, q. d. diffum veritatis, the 

 didat! of truth, is the anfwer of tlie jury given to the court, 

 concermng the matter of faft, in any caufe, civil or criminal, 

 committed by the court to their trial and examination. See 

 Jury. 



A verdicl is either privy or public : a privy verdift is 

 when the judge hath left or adjourned the court ; and the 

 jury, being agreed, in order to be delivered from their con- 

 finement, obtain leave to give their verdift privily to the 

 judge out of court ; which is of no force, unlefs afterwards 

 affirmed by a public verdift given openly in court, in which 

 the jury may, if they pleafe, vary from their pi'ivy verdift. 

 If, indeed, tlie judge hath adjourned the court to hir, own 

 lodgings, and there receives the verdift, it is a pubhc and 

 not a privy verdift. In a criminal cafe, no privy verdift is 

 allowed. 



But the only effeftual and legal verdift is the public ver- 

 dict ; in which they openly declare to have found the iffue 

 for the plaintiff, or for the defendant ; and if for the plain- 

 tiff, they affefs the damages alfo fullained by the plaintiff, 

 in confequence of the injury upon which the adtion is 

 brought. This is either general ov fpecial. 



Verdict, General, is that which is brought into the court, 

 in like general terms as the general iffue : as in aftion of 

 djifeifm, the defendant pleads, no wrong, no dijfeiftii. Then 

 the iffue is general, whether the faft be wrong, or not : 

 which being committed to the jury, they, upon confider- 

 ation of the evidence, come in and fay, either for the plain- 

 tiff. That it is a lurong d'tfftifm ; or for the defendant. That 

 it is no wrong, no dijfeijm : and in criminal cafes, Guilty, or 

 Not guilty. 



Verdict, Special, is when they fay at large, that fuch 

 •and fuch a thing they found to be done by the defendant, 

 or tenant ; declaring the courfe of the faA, as in their 

 opinion it is proved ; and as to the law, upon the fad, 

 praying the judgment of the court. 



The fpecial verdift, if it contains any ample declaration 

 of the caufe from the beginning to the end, is called a 

 verdia at large. This is grounded on the flat. Weftm. II. 

 13 Edw. I. cap. 30. in order to avoid the danger of an 

 attaint ; which fee. After ftating the fafts, they conclude 

 conditionally, that if upon the whole matter the court fhall 

 be of opinion that the plaintiff had caufe of aftion, they then 

 lind for the plaintiff ; if otherwife, then for the defendant. 

 This is entered at length on the record, and afterwards ar- 

 gued and determined in the court at Weftminfter, from 

 whence the iffue came to be tried. Another method of 

 iinding a fpecial verdift is when the jury find a verdift 



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generally for the plaintiff, but fubjed, ncvertheleis, to the 

 opinion of the judge, or the court above, on a fpecial cafe. 

 This is attended with much lefs expence, and obtanis a 

 fpeedier decifion than the other. But as nothing appears 

 upon the record but the general verdift, the parties are 

 precluded hereby from the benefit of a writ of error, if 

 diffatisfied with the judgment of the court or judge upon 

 the point of law. Blackft. Com. book iii. See Jury. 



Verdict, Attainder by. See Attainder. 



Verdict, Falfe. See Attaint. 



VERDIER, Antony du, in Biography, lord of Vau- 

 privas, was born at Montbrifon in Forez in the year 1544, 

 ■and dilHnguifhed himfelf not only by his writings, but by 

 encouraging literature, for which purpofe he granted to 

 men of letters the ufe of his well-furmfhed library. He 

 was advanced to the office of hiltoriographer of France, and 

 having occupied the rank of gentleman in ordinary to the 

 king, died in the year 1600. Of his numerous writings, 

 the only work that has been noticed by pofterity is his 

 " Bibliothequc des Auteurs Frangois." It was firfl 

 printed at Lyons in 1585, fol. and again pubhfhed, under 

 the title of " Bibhothequc de la Croix du Maine," by 

 De Juvigni at Paris, in 5 vols. 4to. 1772-3, with notes and 

 corredions. 



Verdier, Claude du, the fon of Antony, though a 

 man of learning, gained little reputation by his Latin and 

 French pubhcations. Having mifmanaged a good eftate 

 tranfmitted to him from his father, he paffed the latter part 

 of his hfe in obfcurity, and died in 1649, aged above 8c. 

 Moreri. 



VERDISTAN, Cape, in Geography. (See Cape Bar- 

 DISTAN. ) This cape is a land-mai-k which fliips generally 

 look out for in their paffage up the Perfian gulf. There is a 

 dangerous fhoal, which extends a confiderable way to fea, aad 

 thofe are fortunate who pafs by this place without meeting 

 with a gale of wind. Here they manufadure an excellent 

 kind of cloth, which is much worn by the Arabs. On this 

 coaft lies Congon or Kungoon, a large and populous town, 

 which carries on a confiderable trade with the gulf, and alfo 

 with the inland country. The Portuguefe had once a con- 

 fiderable fettlement here. Between this and Taehire or 

 Tahirea there is another town of fome note, called Toom- 

 buch, and alfo the villages of Shilee (Sheeloo), Burg, and 

 Ynat. 



VERDITER, Verdeter, a kind of mineral fubftance 

 fometimes ufc-d by the painters, occ. for a blue, but mote 

 ufually mixed with a yellow for a green colour. See 

 Terre-verte. 



Verditer, according to Savary, ought to be made of the 

 lapis Arnienus ; or, at leaft, of an earthy fubftance much 

 like it, brought from the mountains of Hungary, &c. only 

 prepared by powdering it, and cleanfing it by lotion. 



But this ftone and earth are very rare ; and the verditer 

 ufed is not a native, but a faditious fubftance, or blue pig- 

 ment, obtained by adding chalk or whiting to the folution 

 of copper in aquafortis. (See Copper.) It is prepared 

 by refiners of filver, who employ for this purpofe the folu- 

 tion of copper, which they obtain in the procefs of parting, 

 by precipitating filver from aquafortis with plates of copper. 

 It is faid, that a fine-coloured verditer cannot be obtained 

 from a folution of copper prepared by diffolving diredly 

 that metal in aquafortis ; and that the filver is neceffary. 

 According to Dr. Merret's account of the method of pre- 

 paring it, a quantity of whiting is put into a tub, the 

 copper folution poured on it, and the mixture ftirred every 

 day for fome hours together, till the liquor lofes its colour. 

 The liquor is then poured off, and more of the folution 



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