Terms beginning with "I" (356 total)

I. O. U

DUEL. A duel is any combat with deadly weapons, fought between two or more persons, by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. Pen. Code Cal. § 225; State vy. Fritz, 188 N. C. 725, 45 S. EB. 957; State vy. Herrio...

Id

2, 6, 6. 4, 1, 16. ) 259. It was abolished by St. 12 Car. II c 24. Crabb, Eng. Law, 468. 182. And see Lefler v. Forsberg, 1 App. 25, 1. : 18, 1, 21. 2, 13, 3. 43, 8, 2, 3.—Locus rerit actum. In private internati...

IDEM

Lat. The same. According to Lord Coke, “idem” has two significations, sc., idem eyllabis seu verbis, (the same in syllables or words,) and idem re ec sensu, (the same in substance and in sense.) 10 Coke, 1244.

IDEO CONSIDERATUM EST

Lat. Therefore it is considered. These were the words used at the beginning ef the entry of judgment in an action, when the forms were in Latin. They are also used as a name for that portion of the record.

IDONEUS

Lat. In the civil and common law. Sufficient; competent; fit or proper; responsible; unimpeachable. Jdoneus homo, a responsible or solvent person; a good and lawful man. Sufficient; adequate; satisfactory. IJIdonea cauti...

If the banker becomes

bankrupt, the property in bills entered short does not pass to his assignees, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have u...

IGNORANTIA FACTI EXCUSAT

the mind is ignorant of a fact, its condition still remains sound; the power of thinking, of judging, of willing, is just as complete before communication of the fact as after; the essence or texture, so to speak, of the...

IGNORANTIA JURIS QUOD

Ignorantia juris quod gquisque tenetur scire, neminem excusat. Ignorance of the [or a] law, which every one is bound to know, excuses no man. A mistake in point of law is, in criminal cases, no sort of defense. 4 Bl. Com...

IGNORATIO ELENCHI

Lat. A term of logic, sometimes applied to pleadings and to arguments on appeal, which signifies a mistake of the question, that is, the mistake of one who, failing to discern the real question which he is to meet and an...

III. St

2, c. 24.) who, upon any question arising among merchants relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing: etc., might, before the mayor and officers of the staple upon their oath certify and settle the same; to whose ...

IIT

in 1483. It comprises three kings of arms, six heralds, and four marshals or pursuivants of arms, together with the earl marshal and a secretary. The heralds’ books, compiled when progresses were solemnly and regularly...

ILLATA ET INVECTA

Lat. Things brought into the house for use by the tenant were so called, and were liable to the jus hypothece of Roman law, just as they are to the landlord’s right of distress at common law.

ILLICITE

Lat. Unlawfully. This word has a technical meaning, and is requisite in an indictment where the act charged is unlawful; as in the case of a riot. 2 Hawk.