Videlicet

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Videlicet \Vi*del"i*cet\, adv. [L., contr. fr. videre licet,
     literally, it is easy to see, one may or can see.]
     To wit; namely; -- often abbreviated to viz.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  videlicet
       adv : as follows [syn: {namely}, {viz.}, {that is to say}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  VIDELICET. A Latin adverb signifying to wit, that is to say, namely, 
  scilicet. (q.v.) This word is usually, abbreviated Viz. 
       2. The office of the videlicet is to mark, that the party does not 
  undertake to prove the precise circumstances alleged, and in such case he is 
  not required to prove them. Steph. Pl. 309'; 7 Cowen, R. 42; 4 John. R. 450; 
  3 T. R. 67, 643; 8 Taunt. 107; Greenl. Ev. Sec. 60; 1 Litt. R. 209. Vide 
  Yelv. 94; 3 Saund. 291 a, note; New Rep. *465, note; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 
  2 Pick. 214, 222; 16 Mass. 129.