Terms beginning with "I" (356 total)

INTRA

Lat. In; near; within. “Jnfra” or “inter” has taken the place of ‘‘intre” in many of the more modern Latin phrases.

INURE

sential value, not depending upon accident, place, or person, but the same everywhere. abd to every one. Bank of North Carolina v. Ford, 27 N. C. 698. .

Inv. Trust v. Sears, 30 Or

388, 41 Pac. 931, 35 L. R. A. 188.—Money claims. In English practice. Under the judicature act of 1875, claims for the price of goods sold, for money lent, for arrears of rent, etc., and other claims where money is dir...

INVECTA ET ILLATA

Lat. In the civil law. Things carried in and brought in. Articles brought into a hired tenement by the hirer or tenant, and which became or were pledged to the lessor as security for the rent.

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INVESTITIVE FAOT

INVENTION. In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriging and producing something not previously known or existing, by. the exercise of independent investigation and experimen...

INVITO

Lat. Being unwilling. Against or without the assent or consent. —Ab invito. By or from an unwilling party. A transfer ab invito is a compulsory transfer. vito debitore. Against the will of the debtor.~-Invito domino. T...

INVOLUNTARY

Express and implied. An invitation may be express, when the owner or occupier of the land by words invites another to come upon it or make use of it or of something thereon; or it may be tmplied when such owner or occupi...

INVOLUNTARY 6

oe another, without negligence on the part of owner, or, in cases of fire, shi wreck, inundation, riot, insurrection, or the like extraordinary emergencies, by t the owner of personal property committing it out of pecan ...

Iowa, , 94 N..W

947, 98 Am. St. Rep. 365. =—Deposit account. An account of sums isdged with a bank not to be drawn upon by checks, and usually not to be withdrawn except after a fixed notice.—Deposit com ycompany whose business is t...

Ir

0. L. Irish Common Law Reports. L. Irish Law Reports. L. N.S. Irish Common Law Reports. Ir.L.R. Irish Law Reports;—The Law L. fT. Rep. Irish Law Times Reports.

Ireland

4 Steph. Comm. 297. These important statutes amount to a codification of the modern criminal law of England.—Criminal letters. In Scotch Jaw. A process used as the commencement of a criminal proceeding, in the nature o...

Iron Co

(C. C.) 89 Fed. 754; Jacobs v. Baker, 7 Wall. 297, 19 L. Ed. 200; Corning v. v. Alger, 54 N. Y. 177..... +: . (C. 0.) 42 Fed. 376; Cowdin v. Huff, 10 Ind. 85; In re Chancellor, 1 Bland (Md) 596: Houser v. Umatilla Coun...

ISSUER

specified in a deed are, if committed, declared to be null and void. A resolutirve clause dissolves and puts an end to the right of a proprietor on his committing the acts so declared void. .

It

generally consists in obliging those persons whom there is probable ground to suspect of.future misbehavior..to give full assurance to the public that .guch offense as ia apprehended shall not happen, by finding pledges ...

It was abolished by St

59 Geo. III. c. 46.— Wager of law. In old practice. The giving of gage or sureties by a defendant in an action of debt that af a certain day assigned he would make his law; that is, would take an oath in open court tha...

ITA EST

Lat. So it is; so it stands. In modern civil law, this phrase is a form of attestation added to exemplifications from a notary’s register when the same are made by the successor in office of the notary who made the eri...

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ITA LEX SCRIPTA EST

Lat. So the law is written. Dig. 40, 9, 12. The law must be obeyed notwithstanding the apparent rigor of its application. 3 Bl. Comm. 4380. We must be content with the law as it stands, without inquiring into its reasons...

ITA SEMPER FIAT RELATIO

whatever degree; and it is so construed gener ally in deeds. But, when used in wills, it is, of course, subject to the rule of construction that the intention of the testator, as ascertained from the will, is to have eff...

ITER

Lat. Im the civil law. a right of way belonging as a servitude to an estate in the country, (predium rusticum.) The right of way was of three kinds: (1) éter, a right to walk, or ride on horseback, or in a litter; (2) a...

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