HEALTH
Freedom from sickness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of health is a subdivision of the right of personal security, one of the absolute rights of persons. 1 Bl. Comm. 129, 134. As to injuries affecting health, see 8 Bl. Comm. 122.
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Heathcock
57 Wis. 89, 15 N. W. 9; Gordon v. State, 2 Tex. App. 154; U. S. v. Warren, 12: Ok]. 350, 71 Pac. 685.—Olerk of enrollments. In DPnglish law.. The former chief officer of the English enrollment office, (c. v.) He now forms part of the staff of the c...
Henry VIII
c. 28, by which tenants {fn tail, husbands seised in right of their wives, and others, were empowered to make leases for their lives or for twenty-one years, which they could not do before. 2 Bl. Comm. 319; - Co.. Litt. 44a.. The phrase is also appli...
Hodge v. Palms, 117 Fed
396, 54 C. C. A. 570. —Act of settlement. The statute (12 & 13 Wm. III. c« 2) limiting the crown to the Princess Sophia of Hanover, and to the heirs of her body being Protestants —Act of state. An act done by the sovereign power of a country,. o...
Hooper, 19 Mo
357; asia ¥ Goodman, 80 Mo. App. 281; 1 Bish. Mar. & Div. § 826. But the phrase “indignities to the person,” as used in statutes, has reference to hodily
Hor. Jur
52.—Edictum provinciale. An edict or system of rules for the administration of justice, similar to the edict of the preetor, put forth by the proconsuls and propreetors in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Mackeld. Rom. Law, 36.—Edictum Theodori...
How
68, 15 L. Ed. 267; The Dora (D. C.) 34 Fed. 343; Jennings v. Insurance Co., 4 441, 12 L. Ed. 1147; People v. Tioga 462, 13 L. Ed. 1058. 417, 14 L. Ed. 189. 252, 267, 14 L. Ed. 683. And see Pittsburgh Reduction Co. v. Cowles Electric Co. (C0. 495...
Hunking, 135 Mass
383, 46 Am. Rep. 471; Clift v. White, 12 N. Y. 527; Lightbody v.
I will give.) In the Roman
law. One of. the forms of making a verbal stipulation.
IDIOTA INQUIRENDO
IDENTITY. Im the law of evidence. Sameness; the fact that a subject, person, or thing before a court is ihe same as it is represented, claimed, or charged to be. See
IDONEUM SE FACERE
king to any subject who had interest enough to obtain them. 1 Bl. Comm. 303.
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 mind, is not, as in the case ...
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 answer, addresses his allegation...
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 made into every part of the k...
IMPRESOCRIPTIBLE RIGHTS. Such
rights as a person may use or not, at pleasure, since they cannot be lost to him by
In “icity he diminution, destruction
or defeat of the value of, or of the charze upon, the insured subject to the assured, by the direct consequence of the operation of the risk insured against, according to its value in the policy, or in contribution for loss, so far as its value is vo...
IN CAPITE
Tenure in capite was a holding directly from the king.
In English law
(So called because its original jurisdiction wns to determine controversies between subject and subject.) One of the three superior courts of common law at Westminster, presided over by a lord chief
IN SOLIDUM
In republica maxime oconservandsa sunt jura belli. In a state the laws of war are to be especially upheld. 2 Inst. 58.
INCOMPATIBLE 613
INCOMPATIBLE. Two or more relations, offices, functions, or rights which cannot naturally, or may not legally, exist in or
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 applied to individuals, serious h...
INFOXRICATING LIQUOR
taking an appeal, to the other party, that the court above will hear the appeal.
INFRA LIGEANTIAM REGIS. With
in the king’s ligeance. Comb. 212.
INGENUITAS
Lat. Freedom; liberty;
INSTITUTIO HAZREDIS
gether from the ancient reports and Year Books, but greatly defective in method. It is usually cited by the name of “Co. Litt.,”’ or as **1 Inst.”” The second volume is a comment u on old acts of parliament, without systematic order; the th...
INTERROGATORIES
enced by other principles than the strictly hermeneutic ones. Id. 60. equity, a garnishee, or a witness whose testimony is taken on deposition; a series of formal written questions used in the judicial examination of a party or a witness. In taking ...
IRE AD LARGUM
Lat. To go at large; to escape; to be set at liberty.
It differs from amotion, (g
v.) which is applicable to the removal of an officer from office, leaving him his rights as a member.
J. Law, 311. This phrase, in a statute
does not include alcohol, which is not a liquor of any kind. State v. Martin, 34 Ark. 340.
J. Law, 380, 41 Atl
984; Citizens’ St. R. Co. v. Heath, 29 Ind. App. 395, 62.N. B. 107. Where a court does not exercise a discretion in the sense of being discreet, circumspect, prudent, and exercising cautious judgment, it is an abuse of discretion. Murray v. Buell, ...