Importations; as no state shall lay any duties on imports or exports. Const. U. S. Art. 1, s. 10; 7 How. U. S. Rep. 477....
Urgent solicitation, with troublesome frequency and pertinacity. 2. Wills and devises are sometimes set aside in consequence of the importunity of tho...
Imposts, taxes, or contributions....
The character of that which. cannot be done agreeably to the accustomed order of nature. 2. It is a maxim that no one is bound to perform an impossibi...
This word is sometimes used to signify taxes, or duties, or impositions; and, sometimes, in the more restrained sense of a duty on imported goods and ...
med. jur. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the species. It has also been used synonymously with sterility. 2. Impotence may be considered ...
The state of being incapable of prescription. 2. A property which is held in trust is imprescriptible; that is the trustee cannot acquire a title to i...
A license or allowance to one to print. 2. At one time, before a book could be printed in England, it was requisite that a permission should be obtain...
In some of the ancient English statutes this word is used to signify a printing-office, the art of printing, a print or impression....
In the first place; as, imprimis, I direct my just debts to be paid. See Item....
The restraint of a person contrary to his will. 2 Inst. 589; Baldw. Rep. 239, 600. Imprisonment is either lawful or unlawful; lawful imprisonment is u...
The act by which perjury or falsehood is proved. Techn. Dict. h. t....
eccl. law. The act, of employing the revenues of a church living to one s own use; it is also a parsonage or ecclesiastical living in the hands of a l...
o 1eave at the end of the term a water-mill with all the fixtures, fastenings, and improvements, during the demise fixed, fastened, or set up on or up...
rights. An addition of some useful thing to a machine, manufacture or composition of matter. 2. The patent law of July 4, 1836, authorizes the grantin...
civil law. One who is more than seven years old, or out of infancy, and who has not attained the age of an adult, (q. v.) and who is not yet in his pu...
Not being punished for a crime or misdemeanor committed. The impunity of crimes is one of the most prolific sources whence they arise. lmpunitas conti...
The judgment by which we declare that an agent is the cause of his free action, or of the result of it, whether good or ill. Wolff, 3....
This term is used in Louisiana to signify the appropriation which is made of a payment, when the debtor owes two debts to the creditor. Civ. Code of L...
In another place. Vide Cepit in alio loco....
In the article of death; at the point of death. As to the effect of this condition on wills, see Nuncupative; as to the testimony of such person, see ...
In another s right. An executor, administrator or trustee, is said to have the property confided to him in such character, in autre droit....
This is generally applied to indorsements, as, indorsements in blank, which is one not restricted, made by the indorser simply writing his name. See I...
Evidence is said to be in chief when it is given in support of the case opened by the leading counsel. Vide To Open - Opening. The term is used to dis...
The state or condition of a church living, which is void or vacant, and it is commended to the care of some one. In, Louisiana, there is a species of ...
In the custody of the law. In general, when things are in custodia legis, they cannot be distrained, nor otherwise interfered with by a private person...
In being. A thing in existence. It is used in opposition to enposse. A child in ventre sa mere is a thing in posse; after he is born, he is in esse. V...
This phrase is used to denote the end of life; as, a marriage in extremis, is one made at the end of life. Vide Extremis....
In doing, or in feasance. 2 Story, Eq. Jurisp. 1308....
In favor of liberty....
In favor of life....
In the course of execution; a thing commenced but not completed. A record is said to be in fieri during the term of the court, and, during that time, ...
In the character or form of a pauper. In England, in some cases, when a poor person cannot afford to pay the costs of a suit as it proceeds, he is exe...
Before the tribunal of conscience; conscientiously. This term is applied in opposition, to the obligations which the law enforces. 2. In the sale of p...
In fraud of the law. Every thing done in fraudem legis is void in law. 2 Ves. sen. 155, 156 Bouv. Inst. n. 585, 3834....
In the bosom of the law. This is a figurative expression, by which is meant, that the subject is under the protection of the law; as, where land is in...
At large; not appurtenant or appendant, but annexed to a man s per son: e. g. Common granted to a man and his heirs by deed, is common in gross; or co...
Against an unwilling party; against one who has not given his consent. See Invito domino....
In the course of trial; a course of legal proceedings....
In law; according to law, rightfully. Bract. fol. 169, b....
In or at the beginning. This phrase is frequently used; as, the courts are anxious to check crimes in limine....
ad litem. For a suit; to the suit. Greenl. Ev. 348....
In the place of a parent; as, the master stands towards his apprentice in loco parentis....
s reason, "perhaps the speaker might mean he had stolen a lady s heart." 2. The rule now is to construe words agreeably to the meaning usually attache...
In default. Vide mora, in....
In the clouds. This is a figurative expression to signify a state of suspension or abeyance. 1 Co. 137....
pleading. A plea to errors assigned on proceedings in error, by which the defendant in error affirms there is no error in the record. As to the effect...
In hatred of a despoiler. All things are presumed against a despoiler or wrong doer in odium spoliatoris omnia praesumuntur....
In an equal cause. It is a rule that when two persons have equal rights in relation to a particular thing, the party in possession is considered as ha...
In equal fault; equal in guilt. Neither courts of law nor equity will interpose to grant relief to the parties, when an illegal agreement has been mad...
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