contracts. One who has obliged himself to insure the safety of another s property, in consideration of a premium paid, or secured to be paid, to hi.m....
One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes ...
A rebellion of citizens or subjects of a country against its government. 2. The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 8. gives power to congre...
Eng. law. The time given to receivers of goods stolen in Scotland, who take them to England. 9 H. V. c. 27....
Whole, untouched. Res integra means a question which is new and undecided. 2 Kent, Com. 177....
This phrase is frequently used in conveyancing, in deeds which recite other deeds which have not been recorded. In Pennsylvania, it has been construed...
One who has the charge, management, or direction of some office, department, or public business....
The true meaning, the correct understanding, or intention of the law; a presumption or inference made by the courts. Co. Litt. 78. 2. It is an intendm...
ct the same, and is, indeed, the very efficient cause. thereof. The will, therefore, and meaning of the testator ought, before all things, to be sough...
Between, among; as, inter vivos, between living persons; inter alia, among others....
Among other things; as, "the said premises, which inter alia, Titius granted to Caius."...
Between other parties, who are strangers to the proceeding in question....
Eng. law. Where the commons of two manors lie together, and the inhabitants, or those having a right of common of both, have time out of mind depastur...
Literally, between the dog and the wolf. Metaphorically, the twilight; because then the dog seeks his rest, and the wolf his prey. 3 Inst. 63....
This, in a technical sense, signifies an agreement professing in the outset, and before any stipulations are introduced, to be made between such and s...
Among themselves. Story on Part 405....
Between living persons; as, a gift inter vivos, which is a gift made by one living person to another; see Gifts inter vivos. It is a rule that a fee c...
Communication; commerce; connexion by reciprocal dealings between persons or nations, as by interchange of commodities, treaties, contracts, or letter...
Formerly when deeds of land were made, where there Were covenants to be performed on both sides, it was usual to make two deeds exactly similar to eac...
civil Among the Romans it was an ordinance of the praetor, which forbade or enjoined the parties in a suit to do something particularly specified, unt...
eccles. law. An ecclesiastical censure, by which divine services are prohibited either to particular persons or particular places. These tyrannical ed...
Formerly those persons who were banished for some crime, were interdicted of fire and water; that is, by the judgment order was given that no man shou...
for interdiction, the cost shall be paid out of the estate of the defendant, if he shall be interdicted, and by the petitioner, if the interdiction pr...
estates. An interest in the term. The demise of a term in land does not vest any estate in the lessee, but gives him a mere right of entry on the land...
estates. The right which a man has in a chattel real, and more particularly in a future term. It is a word of less efficacy and extent than estates, t...
61, 96; 3 Day, 108; 1 Wash. C. C. Rep. 409. 2. The policy of commerce and the various complicated. rights which different persons may have in the same...
evidence. The benefit which a person has in the matter about to be decided and which is in issue between the parties. By the term benefit is here unde...
m per annum, or at that rate, is allowed for interest. 4 Cooper s Stat. of S. C. 364. When more is reserved, the amount lent and interest may be recov...
By maritime interest is understood the profit of money lent on bottomry or respondentia, which is allowed to be greater than simple interest because t...
In the mean time; in the meanwhile. For example, one appointed between the time that a person is made bankrupt, to act in the place of the assignee un...
contracts, evidence. Writing between two lines. 2. Interlineations are made either before or after the execution of an instrument. Those made before s...
This word is applied to signify something which is done between the commencement and the end of a suit or action which decides some point or matter, w...
Persons who interrupt the trade of a company of merchants, by pursuing the same business with them in the same place, without lawful authority....
That which pertains to intercourse between nations. International law is that which regulates the intercourse between, or the relative rights of natio...
A minister of a second order, charged with the affairs of the court of Rome, where that court has no nuncio under that title....
civil law. The act by which, in consequence of an agreement, the party bound declares that he will not be bound beyond a certain time. Wolff, Inst. Na...
practice. Interpleaders may be had at law and in equity. 2. An interpleader at law a proceeding in the action of detinue, by which the defendant state...
ense of the law.6. - 2. When the judge interprets the law so as to accord with prior decisions, the interpretation is called usual.7. - 3. It is doctr...
One employed to make a translation. (q v.) 2. An interpreter should be sworn before he translates the testimony of a witness. 4 Mass. 81; 5 Mass. 219;...
polit. law. In an established government, the period which elapses between the death of a sovereign and the election of another is called interregnum....
French law. An act, or instrument, which contains the interrogatories made by the judge to the person accused, on the facts which are the object of th...
Material and pertinent questions, in writing, to necessary points, not confessed, exhibited for the examination of witnesses or persons who are to giv...
will not be lost by interruption of it for ten or twenty years. 1 Inst. 113 b. A simple acknowledgment of a debt by the debtor, is a sufficient interr...
A space of time between two periods. When a person is unable to perform an act at any two given periods, but in the interval he has performed such act...
civil law. The act by which a third party becomes a party in a suit pending between other persons. 2. The intervention is made either to be joined to ...
The state or condition of dying without a will....
One who cannot law fully make a testament. 2. An infant, an insane person, or one civilly dead, cannot make a will, for want of capacity or understand...
One who, having lawful power to make a will, has made none, or one which is defective in form. In that case, he is said to die intestate, and his esta...
civil law. The name of any judicial act by which a notice of a legal proceeding. is given to some one; but it is more usually understood to mean the n...
That part of a writing in which are detailed those facts which elucidate the subject. In chancery pleading, the introduction is that part of a bill wh...
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