INFRA BRACHIA
reference to the marriage of a widow within a year after her husband's death, which was prohibited by the civil law.
Terms beginning with "I" (356 total)
INFRA CORPUS COMITATUS. With
in the body (territorlal limits) of a county. In English law, waters whith are tnfra corpus comitatus are exempt from the jurisdic tion of the admiralty.
INFRA DIGNITATEM CURIZ. Be
aeath the dignity of the court; unworthy of che consideration of the court. Where a Dill in equity is brought upon a matter too trifling to deserve the attention of the court, it is demurrable, as being infra dignitatem ...
INFRA LIGEANTIAM REGIS. With
in the king’s ligeance. Comb. 212.
INFRA QUATUOR PARIETES. With
in four walls. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 106, $ 1089. :
INFUGARE
Lat. To put to flight. INFULA. A coif, or a cassock. Jacob.
ING
QUIOKENING. In medical jurisprudence. The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy.
ING PROCESS
3. In Scotch law, a person appointed to transact business or manage affairs for another, but more particularly an estate-agent or one intrusted with the management of a landed estate, who finds tenants, makes leases, col...
INGENIUM
(1) Artifice, trick, fraud; (2) an engine, machine, or device. Spelman.
INGENUITAS
Lat. Freedom; liberty;
INGENUUS
INFRA SEX ANNOS. Within six years. Used in the Latin form of the plea of the statute of limitations. l ;
Ingersoll v. Ingersoll, 49 Pa
250, 88 Am. Dec. 500; Droege v. Droege, 55 Mo. App. 482; Barnett v. Barnett, 27 Ind. App. 466, 61 N. E. 737; Williams v. Williams, 130 N. Y. 193, 29 N. E. 98, 14 L. R. A. 220, 27 Am. St. Rep. 517; Magrath v. Magrath, 108...
INGRATITUDE
merely free, but of good family. There were no distinctions among ingenut; but among libertiné there were (prior to Justinfan’s abolition of the distinctions) three varieties, namely: ‘Those of the highest rank, - c...
INGRESS, EGRESS, AND REGRESS
These words express the right of a lessee to
INHABITED HOUSE DUTY. A tax
assessed in England on inhabited dwellinghouses, according to their annual value, (St. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, § 11,) which is payable by the occupier, the landlord being deemed the occupier where the ...
INHERITANCE
from duty, although a care-taker may dwell therein, and houses partially occupied for business purposes are to that extent exempt. Sweet.
INHIBITION
A writ issuing from a superior ecclesiastical court, forbidding an inferior judge to proceed further in a cause pending before him: In this sense it is closely analogous to the writ of prohibition at common law.
Initiate and consummate
(Curtesy initiate is the interest which a husband has in his wife’s estate after the birth of issue capable of inheriting, and before the death of the wife; after her death, it becomes an estate “by the eurtesy consu...
INJUNCTION
thing; . (2) prohibits him from refusing (or persisting in a refusal) to do or permit some act to which the plaintiff has a legal right; or (8) restrains the defendant from permitting his previous wrongful act to continu...
INJURES GRAVES
Fr. In French law. . Grievous insults or injuries, including personal insults and reproachful language, constituting a just cause of divorce. Butler v. Butler, 1 Pars. Eq. Cas. (Pa.) 844.
INJURIA
Lat. Injury; wrong; the privation or violation of right. 8 BI. Comm. 2. —Injuria absque damno. Injury or wrong without damage. A wrong done, but from which no loss or damage results, and which, therefore, will not sust...
INJURY
‘ Injuria non exocusat injuriam. Ong wrong does not justify another. Broom,
INLAGARE
restore to protection of law. To restore a man from the condition of outlawry. Opposed to utlagare. Bract. lib. 3, tr. 2, c 14, $1; Du Cange.
INN
sive of the open sea, though the water in qo:
INNAMIUM
“common,” in this connection, does not appear to add anything to the common-law definition of an inn, except in so far as it lays stress “on the fact that the house is for the entertainment of the general public or...
INNOCENT
Free from guilt; acting in good faith and without knowledge of incriminatory circumstances, or of defects or objections.
INNOTESCIMUS
Lat. We make known. A term formerly applied to letters patent, derived from the emphatic word at the conclusion of the Latin forms. It was a species of exemplification of charters of feoffment or other instruments not of...
INNS OF COURT
GREAT. As used in various compound legal terms, this word generally means extraordinary, that is, exceeding the common or ordinary measure or standard, in respect to physical size, or importance, dignity, etc. See
INNUENDO
and invested with the exclusive privilege of calling men to the bar; that is, conferring the rank or degree of a barrister. They were founded probably about the beginning of the fourteenth century. The principal inns of ...
INOCIVILE
Lat. Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law.
INOPS CONSILIT
Lat. Destitute of counsel; without legal counsel. A term applied to the acts or condition of one acting without legal advice, as a testator drafting his own will.
INQUEST
INOFFICIOUS TESTAMENT. A will not in accordance with the testator’s natural affection and moral duties. Williams, Ex’rs, - (7th Ed.) 38; Stein v. Wilzinski, 4 Redf. 1. A body of men appointed? by law to inquire into...
INQUILINUS
matter that entitles the king to the possession of lands or tenements, goods or chattels; as to inquire whether the king’s tenant for life died seised, whereby the reversion accrues to the king; whether A., who held im...
INROLLMENT. See ENROLLMENT
. INSANE. Unsound in mind; of unsound mind; deranged, disordered, or diseased in mind. Violently deranged; mad.
Ins
408; Dane, Abr. Index. See Merchants’ 469. OUTAGE. A tax or charge formerly im- bk. 1, c. 12, § 1. See Barrow v. Bell, 4 Barn. & C. 736; Strong v. Sun Mut. Ins. 97. 333.—VWoyage policy. See PoLicy oF
Ins. Co
v. Tiadale, 91 U. 8. 243, 23 L. Ed. 314. v. Griswold, 14 Wend. (N. Y.) 399. v. Coulter, 3 Pet. 231, 7 L. Ed. 659; vy. Transn. Co., 120 U. S, 166, 7 Sup. y. Soule, 7 Wall. 433, 19 L. Ed. 953 v. New York, 134 U. S. 59...
Ins. Co, v
ly, 82 Md. 421, 431, 8 Am.
Ins. Co., 10 Johns
(N. Y.) 125(a); De Lovio v. Boit, 7 Fed. Cas. 429.
Ins. Co., 102 Pa
262, 48 Am. Rep. 205;
Ins. Co., 127 Pa
559, 18 Atl. 392.—Reasonable notice. Such notice or information of a fact as may fairly and properly be expected or required in the particular circumstances. Sterling Mfz. Co. vy. Hough, 49 Neb. 618, 68 N. W. 1019; Mal...
Ins. Co., 24 Minn
319, 31 Am. Rep. 346;
Ins. Co., 51 Md. §12, 34 Am. Rep
3828. —Special terms. Peculiar or unusual conditions imposed on a party before granting some application to the favor of the court.—Under terms. <A party is said to be under terme when an indulgence is granted to him...
Ins. Co., 70 Conn
647, 41 Atl. 4—Net price. The lowest price, after deducting all discounts. —Net profits. This term does not mean what is made over the losses, expenses, and interest on the amount invested. It jncludes the gain that ...
Ins. Co., 85 Ala
401, 5 South. 120; Shafer’s
INSANITY
_IYNROLL. A form of “enroll,” used in the old books. 3 Rep. Ch. 63,73; 8 Hast, 410. classed uncer the general designation of “insanity,” it is rather to be-regarded as a nat: ural defect than as a disease or as ...
INSCRIPTIO
Lat. In the civillaw. A written accusation in which the accuser undertakes to suffer the punishment appropriate to the offense charged, if the accused is able to clear himself of the accusation. Calvin; Cod. 9,1,10; Id. ...
INSIDIATORES VIARUM
Lat. Highwaymen; persons who lie in wait in order to commit some felony or other misdemeanor.
INSINUARE
Lat. In the civil law. To put into; to deposit a writing in court, answering nearly to the modern expression “to file.’ St non mandatum actis insinuatum .est, if the power or authority be not deposited among the reco...
INSINUATIO
Lat. In old English law. Information or suggestion. Ha insinuatione, on the information. Reg. Jud. 25, 50.
INSOLATION
INSENSIBLE. In pleading. Untntelligible; without sense or meaning, from the omission of matérial words, ete. Steph. PI. 377. See Union Sewer Pipe Co. v. Olson, 82