INCINERATION
draulic ‘power, being the quantity of water which, under a given constant head or pressure, will escape through an orifice one inc uare (or a circular orifice having a diameter of one inch) in a vertical plane. Jackson...
Terms beginning with "I" (356 total)
INCIPITUR
Lat. It is begun; it be gins. In old practice, when the pleadings in an action at law, instead of being recited at large on the issue-roll, were set out merely by their commencements, this was described as entering the i...
INCOMPATIBLE 613
INCOMPATIBLE. Two or more relations, offices, functions, or rights which cannot naturally, or may not legally, exist in or
INCONSULTO
Lat. In the civil law.
INCORPORATE
1. To create.a corporation; to confer a corporate franchise upon determinate persons.
INCORPORATION
1. The act or process of forming or creating a corporation; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation.
INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE
“inconvenience,” this means, as applied to the public, the sacrifice or jeoparding of important public interests or hampering the legitimate activities of government or the transaction of public business, and, as app...
INCREMENTUM
Lat. Increase or improvement, opposed to decrementum.or abatement.
INCURRAMENTUM. UL
Lat. The liability to a fine, penalty, or amercement. Cowell.
Ind
41, 59 N. E. 169; La Beau v. People, 34 N. Y. 223; Sumpter v. State, 11 Fla. 247; 533, 3 N. E. 264; Braman v. Dowse, 12 92. 33 N. BE. 786; Morton v. Immigration 16; Shumate v. Com., 15 Grat. 660; Harris v. White, 81 N...
Ind, 288;, McDaniel vy. State, 16 Miss
401, 47 Am. Dec. 98.
Ind. App
362, 39 N. E. 768; In re Reformed, etc., Church, 7 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 476; Cemetery Ass’n v. Assessors, 37 La. Ann. 335. 2, 56 N. B. 44, 79 Am. St. Rep. 251; Moore vy. Williams, 26 Tex. Civ. App. 142, 62 S. W. 977.—...
Ind.L.R
(East) Indian Law Reports.
INDE
Lat. Thence; thenceforth; thereof; thereupon; for that cause.
INDEBITATUS
(Mluss.) 467; Huyck v. Andrews, 118 N, Y. $1, 20 N. E. 581, 3 L. R. A. 789, 10 Am. St.
INDEBITI SOLUTIO
ligation to be due from the defendant, and then ‘avers that, in consideration thereof, he promised to pay or discharge the same. Lat. In the civil and Scotch law. A payment of what is not due. When made through ignora...
INDEFENSUS
Lat. In old English practice. Undefended; undenied by: pleading. A defendant who makes no defense or -Dlea. Blount. ; = . INDEFINITE FAILURE OF ISSUE. A failure of issue not merely at the death of the party whose issue a...
INDEMNIS
Lat. Without hurt, harm, or damage; harmless. —
INDEMNITOR
’ INDEOCIMABLE. In old English law. That which is not titheable, or Hable to pay tithe. 2 Inst. 490.
INDEMNITY
INDEMNITY. An indemnity fs a ccollateral contract or assurance, by which one person engages to secure another against an anticipated loss or to prevent him from being damnified by the legal consequences of an act or forb...
INDEPENDENT
were parties, and each was cut or indented (either in acute angles, like the teeth of a saw, or in a waving line) at the top or aside, to tally or correspond with the others, and the deed so made was called an “indentu...
INDEPENDENTER SE HABET
Independenter se hahet assecuratio aviaggio nayis... The voyage insured is an independent or distinct thing from the voyage of the ship. 3 Kent, Comm. 318, note.
Indians y. U. S., 170 U. S. 1, 18 Sup. Ct
531, 42 L. Ed. 927; Clapp v. Byrnes, 3 App. Div. 284, 38 N. Y. Supp. 1063; Miller v. Graham.
INDICARE
Lat. in the civil law. To show or discover. To fix or tell the price of a thing. Calvin. To inform against; to accuse.
INDICATIF. An abolished writ
by which a prosecution was in some cases re- - moved from a court-christlan to the queen’s bench. Enc. Lond.
INDICT. See INDICTMENT
INDICTABLE. Proper or necessary to be prosecuted by process of indictment.
INDICTIO
laration; a proclamation. declaration or indiction of war. ment.
INDICTMENT
given fact as probable, but not certain. For example, “indicia of partnership” are any circumstances which would induce the belief that a given person was in reality, though not ostensibly, a member of a given firm. ...
INDITEE
L. Fr. In old English law.
INDIVISIBLE
reputation. Cheatham v. Oheatham, 10 Mo. 298; Butler v. Butler, 1 Pars. Hq. Cas. (Pa.) 329; Kurtz v. Kurtz, 38 Ark. 128. But: compare Miller v. Miller, 78 N. ©. 105.
INDIVISUM
tire. Thus, a contract, covenant, consideration, etc., may be divisible or indivisible; & c, separable or entire. Lat. That which two or more persons hold in common without partition; undivided. ,
INDUBITABLE PROOF
subsequent. 1 Daniel, Neg. Inst. § 697.~—Full indorsement. One by which the indorser orders the money to ,be paid to some particular person by name; it ditfers from a. blank indorsement, which consists merely in the n...
INDUCEMENT
INDUCEMENT. In contracts. The benefit or advantage which the promisor is to receive from a contract is the inducement for making it.
INDUCTIO
Lat. In the civil law. Obliteration, by drawing the pen or stylus over the writing. Dig. 28, 4; Calvin.
INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SO
CIETIES. Societies formed in England for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land and also (but subject to certain restrictions) the bysiness of b...
INDUSTRIAM, PER
Lat. A qualified property in animals fere nature may be ac quired per industriam, 4. €., by a man’s re claiming and making them tame by art, industry, and education; or by so confining them within his own immediate p...
INEST DE JURE
obtain something contrary to the common law. Lat. right; it is implied by law.
Inet
no. 3022. Darcey v. Lake, 46 Miss. 117;
INEVITABLE
. INBVITABLE. Incapable of being avoided: fortuitous; transcending the power of human care, foresight, or exertion to avoid or prevent, and therefore suspending legal relations so far as to excuse from the performance of...
INFANS
Lat. In the efvil law. <A child under the age of seven years; so called “quasi impos fandt,” (as not having the faculty of speech.) Cod. Theodos, 8, 18, 8.
INFANTIA
Lat. In the civil law. The period of infancy between birth -and - the age of seven years. Calvin.
INFANTS’ MARRIAGE AOT. The
statute 18 & 19 Vict. c. 43. By virtue of this act every infant, (if a male, of twenty, or, if a female, of seventeen, years,—section 4,) upon or in contemplation of marriage. may, with the sanction of the chancery div...
INFECTION
or: more remotely through inhalation, absorption of food or liquid tainted with excremental matter, contact with contaminated clothing or bedding, or other agencies.
INFERENOE
In the law of evidence.
INFICIATIO
Lat. 7 Denial; the denial of a debt or liability; the
INFIDELITAS
argumentative. sometimes termed “inferential.”
INFIDUCIARE
- ENFEPUOCIARE. In old European law. To: pledge property. Spelman.
INFLUENCE. See UNDUE INFLUENCE
. INFORMAL. Deficient in legal form; inartificially drawn up.
INFOXRICATING LIQUOR
taking an appeal, to the other party, that the court above will hear the appeal.
INFRA ANNUM LUCTUS
officer inated ‘of rts yg jury. U. S. v. Borger (C, 93; State v. Barrell, 75 Vt. 202, Ps re 183, 98 Am. St. Rep. 813. —Information in the nature of a quo warranto. aA proceeding against the usurper of a franchise or ...