' EMPUTED. As used in legal phrases, this word means attributed vicariously; that is, an act, facf, or quality is said to be “imputed” to a person when it is ascribed or charged to him, not because he is personally cognizant of it or responsible for it, but because another person is, over whom he has control or for whose acts or knowledge he is responsible. —Imputed knowledge. This phrase is sometimes used as equivalent to “implied notice,” & A., knowledge attributed or charged to a person (often contrary ‘to the fact) because the facts in quesnoe were open to his discovery and it was his duty to inform himself as to them. See Roche v. Llewellyn Iron Works Co., 140