vouch (vouch)

[ And vouch the silent stars, and conscious moon. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., xiii. 22. or supporting warrant; confirmation; attestation. Why in this woolvish toge should I stand here, To beg of Hob and Dick, that do appear, Their needle vouches? Shak . , Cor., ii. 3. 124. vouchee (vou-chē'), n. [ vouch + -eel .] In law , the person who is vouched or summoned in a writ of right. All trouble on this score was avoided by choosing as vouchee some one who notoriously had no lands to make recompense withal, and therefore was, as we now say, not worth powder and shot. F. Pollock , Land Laws, p. 31. voucher (voucher), n. [ vouch + -er1.] 1. One who vouches, or gives attestation or confirmation; one who is surety for another. He knows his own strength so well that he never dares praise anything in which he has not a French author for his voucher. Add is on , Tatler, No. 165. IMG:content-1962.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A book, paper, document, or stamp which serves to prove the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; specifically, a receipt or other written evidence of the payment of money. The stamp is a mark,... and a public voucher , that a piece of such denomination is of such a weight. Locke, Further Considerations concerning Raising the [Value of Money. He caused the accounts to be examined by the proper officer, who, after comparing every article with its voucher, certified them to be right. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 260. 3. In old Eng. law: (a) The tenant in a writ of right; one who called in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries there might be a single voucher or double vouchers. [Also written vouch or.] (b) The calling in of a person to vouch. - Double voucher, an incident in the alienation of land by the fiction of common recovery, where the owner was allowed to convey to a third person who, being sued, alleged that the former warranted the title, and he, being called to vouch for it, was allowed to allege that still another warranted it to him, the object being to bar contingent interests, etc. vouch ment rouchment (vouch'ment), (vouch'ment), n. [ tion. or affirmation; a solemn a er Their vouch ment by their honour in that tryal is not an oath. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, i. 77. ( Davies .)