pleading, practice. I am not informed; a formal answer made in court, or put upon record by an attorney when he has nothing to say in defence of his c...
A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute. 2. When the informer is entitl...
civil law. The second part of the Digest or Pandects of Justinian, is called infortiatum: see Digest. This part, which commences with the third title ...
Latin. Below, under, beneath, underneath. The opposite of supra, above. Thus we say primo gradu est supra, pater, mater; infra, filius, filia. In the ...
Under age that is, during infancy, or before arriving at the full age of twenty-one years....
Within the body of the countt. 2. The common law courts have jurisdiction infra corpus comitatus; the admiralty, on the contrary, has no such jurisdic...
Below the dignity of the court. Example, in equity a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in dispute, as being be...
Within the inn when once a traveller s baggage comes infra hospitium, that is, in the care and under the charge of the innkeeper, it is at his risk. S...
This term is used in relation to prizes, to signify that they have been brought completely in the power of the captors, that is, within the towns, cam...
The breach of a law or agreement; the violation of a compact. In the French law this is the generic expression to designate all actions which are puni...
t or cold fluid upon a substance, whose medical properties it is desired to extract. Infusion is also used for the product of this operation. Although...
civ. law. Those freemen who were born free. Vicat, vocab. 2. They were a class of freemen, distinguished from those who, born slaves, had afterwards l...
The forgetfulness of a kindness or benefit.2. In the civil law, ingratitude on the part of a legatee, was sufficient to defeat a legacy in his favour....
These words are frequently used in leases to express the right of the lessee to enter, go upon, and return from the lands in question....
An ancient writ of entry, by which the plaintiff or complainant sought an entry into his lands. Techn. Dict. h. t....
practice. The act of copying from a rough draft a writing in order that it may be executed; as, ingrossing a deed....
One who has his domicil in a place is an inhabitant of that place; one who has an actual fixed residence in a place. 2. A mere intention to remove to ...
An authority possessed without its being derived from another. It is a right, ability or faculty of doing a thing, without receiving that right, abili...
estates. A perpetuity in lands to a man and his heirs; or it is the right to succeed to the estate of a person who died intestate. Dig. 50, 16, 24. Th...
Scotch law,. A personal prohibition which passes by letters under the signet, prohibiting the party inhibited to contract any debt, or do . any deed, ...
Eng. law. The name of a writ which forbids a judge from further proceeding in a cause depending before him; it is in the nature of a prohibition. T. d...
Vice; contrary to equity; injustice. 2. Where, in a doubtful matter, the judge is required to pronounce, it is his duty to decide in such a manner as ...
Placed at the beginning. The initials of a man s name are the first letters of his Dame; as, G. W. for George Washington. When in a will the legatee i...
Scotch law. Before a witness can be examined in chief, he may be examined with regard to his disposition, whether he bear good or ill will towards eit...
A right which is incomplete. By the birth of a child, the hushand becomes tenant by the curtesy initiate, but his estate is not consummate until the d...
French law. The name given to the important prerogative given by the charte constitutionelle, art. 16, to the late king to propose through his ministe...
rpetual injunction will be decreed. Ed. Inj. 253. 12. The interdict (q. v.) of the Roman law resembles, in many respects, our injunction. It was used ...
Injury without damage. Injury without damage or loss will not bear an action. The following, cases illustrate this principle. 6 Mod. Rep. 46, 47, 49; ...
This phrase is used, in Louisiana, to signify slander, or libelous words. Code, art. 3501....
A wrong or tort. Injuries are divided into public and private; and they affect the. person, personal property, or real property. 3. - 1. They affect t...
him, and are deliberately repeated in different companies, or banded about in whispers to confidants, it then grows up to the crime of slander, agreea...
That which is opposed to justice. 2. It is either natural or civil. 1. Natural injustice is the act of doing harm to mankind, by violating natural rig...
To admit or restore to the benefit of law....
The restitution of one outlawed to the protection of the law. Bract. lib. 2, c. 14....
Within the same country. 2. It seems not to be agreed whether the term inland applies to all the United States or only to one state. It has been holde...
One who dwells in a part of another s house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, ...
A house where a traveller is furnished with every thing he has occasion for while on his way. Bac. Ab. Inns. B; 12 Mod. 255; 3 B. & A. 283; 4 Campb. 7...
Not capable of being navigated....
estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31....
He is defined to be the keeper of a common inn for the lodging and entertainment of travellers and passengers, their horses and attendants, for a reas...
The absence of guilt. 2. The law presumes in favor of innocence, even against another presumption of law: for example, when a woman marries a second h...
This term is used in England, technically, to signify those conveyances made by a tenant of his leasehold, which do not occasion a forfeiture these ar...
civil law. Contracts which have no particular names, as permutation and transaction, are so called. Inst. 2, 10, 13. There are many innominate contrac...
English law. An epithet used for letters-patent, which are always of a charter of feoffment, or some other instrument not of record, concluding with t...
r ought to be immutable; changes are required by the alteration of circumstances; amendments, by the imperfections of all human institutions but laws ...
Scotch law. The exchange of one obligation for another, so that the second shall come in the place of the first. Bell s Scotch Law Dict. h. t. The sam...
Engl. law. The name given to the colleges of the English professors and students of the common law. 2. The four principal Inns of Court are the Inner ...
pleading. An averment which explains the defendoant s meaning by reference to antecedent matter. Salk. 513; 1 Ld. Raym. 256; 12 Mod. 139; 1 Saund. 243...
civil law. This word is frequently used with others; as, inofficious testament, inofficiosum testamentum; inofficious gift, donatio inofficiosa. An in...
Destitute or without counsel. In the construction of wills a greater latitude is given, because the testator is supposed to have been inops consilii....
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