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
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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; Mallory v. Leiby, 1 Kan. 102.
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 records of the court.
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
INSTANCE
of public records. and documents: or of the books and papers of his opponent in an action, for the purpose of better preparing his own case for trial. ; —Inuspection laws. Laws authorizing and directing the inspection and examination of various kin...
INSTRUMENTA
Lat. That kind of evidence which consists of writings not under seal; as court-rolls, accounts, and the like. 3 Co. Litt. 487.
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 experiment. Also the article or contriv...
ITA QUOD
Lat. In old practice. So that. Formal words in writs. Jta quod habcas corpus, so that you have the body. 2 Mod. 180.
ITERATIO
Lat. Repetition. In the Roman law, a bonitary owner might liberate a slave, and the quiritary owner's repetition (steratio) of the process effected a complete manumission. Brown.
James, 12 Grat
(Va.) 23; People v. Judge of Superior Court (Mich.) 2 N. W. 919; State vy. Ward, 70 Minn. 58, 72 N. W. 823; Johnston v. Hunter; 50 W. Va. 52, 40 8. E. 448; Appo v. People, 20 N. Y. 531; Hovey v.
JAMMABUNDY, JUMMABUNDY. In
Hindu law. <A written schedule of the whole of an assessment.
Jenkins, 170 Mo
16, 70 S. W. 152.—General return-day. The day for the general return of all writs of summons, subpeena, etc., running to a particular term of the court.—Return-
JEOFAILE
L. Fr. I have failed; I am in error. An error or oversight in pleading.
Jones & McM
(Aa.). Jones & McMurtrie’s Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports.
Jones, Bailm
117 36, 117; National Bank v. Washington County Bank, 5 Hun (N. Y.) 607; Payne v. Gardiner, 29 N. Y. 167; Montgomery v. Evans, 8 Ga. 180; Rozelle v.
Judgm
(2d ed.) § 462. Judgment nisi. At common law, this was a judgment entered on the return of the nisi gprftue record, which, according to the terms of the postea, was to become absolute unlesea otherwise ordered by the court within the first four days...
Judgment of non pros
(non prosequitur) is one given against the plaintiff for a neglect to take any of those steps which it is incumbent on him to take in due time.
JURIDICUS
Lat. Relating to the courts or to the administration of justice; juridical; lawful. Dies juridicus, a lawful day for the transaction of business in court; a day on which the courts are open.
JUS
which, in an order determined by the hazard of its revolutions, are drawn a sufficient number of such names to make up the panels for a given term of court. Lat. In Roman law. Right; jus tice; law; the whole body oz law; also a right. The term {is u...
Jus ponitur pro ipsa arte. Bract
fol. 2b. A court or judicial tribunal, (locus in quo reddttur jus.) Id. fol. 3. For various compound and descriptive terins, see the following tities:
JUSTICIARY COURT
Smith v. Abbott, 17 N. J. Law, 866; People v. Mann, 97 N. Y. 530, 49 Am. Rep. 556. __
JUSTINIAN
A dody of law established by the legislative authority, and intended to set forth, in generalized and systematic form, the principles of the entire law, whether written or unwritten, pasitive or customary, derived from enactment or from precedent. Ab...
Kern. Kern's Reports, vola
100-116 Indiana ;—Kernan’s Reports, vols. 11-14 New York Court of Appeals.
Key
(or Keyes). Keyes’ New York Court of Appeals Reports.
Kn
(or Kn. A.C.). Knapp’s Appeal Cases (English Privy Council).
Kress. Kress’ Reports, vols
166-194 Pennsylvania;—Kress’ Pennsylvania Superior Court.
L. R. A. 742
—Finding of fact. A determination of a fact by the court, such fact being averred by one party and denied by the other, and the determination being based on the evidence in the case; also the answer of the jury to a specific interrogatory propounde...
L. RB. App
(or L. R. App. Cas.). English Law Reports, Appeal Cases, House of Lords.
LABOR
1. Work; toil; service. Continued exertion, of the more onerous and inferior kind, usually and chiefly consisting in the protracted expenditure of muscular force, adapted to the accomplishment of specific useful ends. It is used in this sense in seve...
LABORARIIS
LABORARIIS. An ancient writ against persons who refused to serve and do labor, and who had no means of living; or against such as, having served in the winter, refused to serve in the summer. Reg. Orig. 189.