VETITUM NAMIUM (Law Lat. vetitum, forbidden, namium, taking). Where theball iff of a lord distrains beasts or goods of an other, and the lord forbids the bailiff to de liver them when the sheriff comes to make replevin, the owner of the cattle may de mand satisfaction in placitum de vetito na inio. Co. 2d Inst. 140 ; 2 Bla. Com. 148. See WITHERNAM ; 2 Poll. & Maitl. 575.
VETO (Lat. I forbid). A term including the refusal of the executive officer whose as sent is necessary to perfect a law which has been passed by the legislative body, and the message which is usually sent to such body by the executive, stating such refusal and the reasons therefor. See EXECUTIVE POWER.
By the constitution of the United States (art. 1, I 7), the president has a power to prevent the enact ment of any law, by refusing to sign the same after its passage, unless it be subsequently enacted by a vote of two-thirds of each house. When a bill is engrossed, and has received the sanction of both houses, it is transmitted to the president for his ap probation. If he approves it, he signs it. If he does not, he sends it, with his objections, to the house In which it originated, and that house enters the objections on the journal and may proceed to re consider the hill. If passed by that house by a two
thirds (yea and my vote) it is sent, with the ob jections, to the other house: if it pass that house by a like vote, it becomes a law. If not returned by the president In ten days (Sundays excepted) it becomes a law, unless congress by adjournment prevents its return. Kent. Similar powers are possessed by the governors of many of the states. See STAMM. The veto power of the British sovereigr has not been exercised for two centuries. It way exercised once during the reign of Queen Anne. 10 Edinburgh Rev. 411; Parks, Lect. 126. But anciently the king frequently replied, Le roi s'avisera, (the king will consider It), which was in effect withholding his as sent. "The king must assent to, or (as it is in accurately expressed) cannot veto, any bill passed by parliament." Dicey, Constit. 25. See Hearn, Govt. of England; Encyci. Br. s. v. Veto.