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| IBIDEM | | . This word is used in references, when it is ... |
| ICTUS ORBIS | | med. jurisp. A maim, a bruise, or swelling; any hurt without ... |
| IDEM SONANS | | . Sounding the same.
2. In pleadings, when a name ... |
| IDENTITATE NOMINIS | | Engl. law. The name of a writ which lies for a ... |
| IDENTITY | | evidence. Sameness.
2. It is frequently necessary to identify persons ... |
| IDES, NONES and CALENDS | | civil law. This mode of computing time, formerly in use among ... |
| IDIOCY | | med. jur. That condition of mind, in which the reflective, or ... |
| IDIOT | | Persons. A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, ... |
| IDIOTA INQUIRENDO, WRIT DE | | . This is the name of an old writ which directs ... |
| IDLENESS | | . The refusal or neglect to engage in any lawful employment, ... |
| IGNIS JUDICIUM | | Eng. law. The name of the old judicial trial by fire. ... |
| IGNOMINY | | . Public disgrace, infamy, reproach, dishonor. Ignominy is the opposite of ... |
| IGNORAMUS | | practice. We are ignorant. This word, which in law means we ... |
| IGNORANCE | | . The want of knowledge.
2. Ignorance is distinguishable from ... |
| ILL FAME | | . This is a technical expression, that which means not only ... |
| ILLEGAL | | . Contrary to law; unlawful.
2. It is a general ... |
| ILLEGITIMATE | | . That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied ... |
| ILLEVIABLE | | . A debt or duty that cannot or ought not ... |
| ILLICIT | | . What is unlawful what is forbidden by the law. ... |
| ILLICITE | | . Unlawfully.
2. This word has a technical meaning, and ... |
| ILLINOIS | | . The name of one of the United States of ... |
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| ILLITERATE | | . This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters.
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| ILLUSION | | . A species of mania in which the sensibility of ... |
| ILLUSORY APPOINTMENT | | chancery practice. Such an appointment or disposition of property under a ... |
| IMBECILITY | | med. jur. A weakness of the mind, caused by the absence ... |
| IMIPLICATA | | mar. law. In order to avoid the risk of making fruitless ... |
| IMMATERIAL | | . What is not essential; unimportant what is not requisite; what ... |
| IMMATERIAL AVERMENT | | . One alleging with needless particularity or unnecessary circumstances, what is ... |
| IMMEDIATE | | . That which is produced directly by the act to ... |
| IMMEMORIAL | | . That which commences beyond the time of memory. Vide Memory, ... |
| IMMIGRATION | | . The removing into one place from another. It differs from ... |
| IMMORAL CONSIDERATION | | . One contrary to good morals, and therefore invalid. See Moral ... |
| IMMORALITY | | . that which is contra bonos mores. In England, it ... |
| IMMOVABLES | | civil law. Things are movable or immovable. Immovables, res immobiles, are ... |
| IMMUNITY | | . An exemption from serving in an office, or performing duties ... |
| IMMUTABLE | | . What cannot be removed, what is unchangeable. The laws of ... |
| IMPAIRING THE OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS | | . The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 9, ... |
| IMPARLANCE | | pleading and practice. Imparlance, from the French, parler, to speak, or ... |
| IMPEACHMENT | | const. law, punishments. Under the constitution and laws of the United ... |
| IMPEACHMENT | | evidence. An allegation, supported by proof, that a witness who has ... |
| IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE | | . It signifies a restraint from committing waste upon lands or ... |
| IMPEDIMENTS | | contracts. Legal objections to the making of a contract. Impediments which ... |
| IMPERFECT | | . That which is incomplete.
2. This term is applied ... |
| IMPERIUM | | . The right to command, which includes the right to employ ... |
| IMPERTINENT | | practice, pleading. What does not appertain, or belong to; id est, ... |
| IMPETRATION | | . The obtaining anything by prayer or petition. In the ancient ... |
| IMPLEMENTS | | . Such things as are used or employed for a ... |
| IMPLICATION | | . An inference of something not directly declared, but arising from ... |
| IMPORTATION | | comm. law. The act of bringing goods and merchandise into the ... |
| IMPORTS | | . Importations; as no state shall lay any duties on imports ... |
| IMPORTUNITY | | . Urgent solicitation, with troublesome frequency and pertinacity.
2. Wills and ... |
| IMPOSITIONS | | . Imposts, taxes, or contributions.
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| IMPOSSIBILITY | | . The character of that which. cannot be done agreeably to ... |
| IMPOSTS | | . This word is sometimes used to signify taxes, or duties, ... |
| IMPOTENCE | | med. jur. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the species. It ... |
| IMPRESCRIPTIBILITY | | . The state of being incapable of prescription.
2. A property ... |
| IMPRIMATUR | | . A license or allowance to one to print.
2. ... |
| IMPRIMERY | | . In some of the ancient English statutes this word ... |
| IMPRIMIS | | . In the first place; as, imprimis, I direct my ... |
| IMPRISONMENT | | . The restraint of a person contrary to his will. ... |
| IMPROBATION | | . The act by which perjury or falsehood is proved. Techn. ... |
| IMPROPRIATION | | eccl. law. The act, of employing the revenues of a church ... |
| IMPROVEMENT | | estates. This term is of doubtful meaning It would seem to ... |
| IMPROVEMENT, | | rights. An addition of some useful thing to a machine, manufacture ... |
| IMPUBER | | civil law. One who is more than seven years old, ... |
| IMPUNITY | | . Not being punished for a crime or misdemeanor committed. The ... |
| IMPUTATION | | . The judgment by which we declare that an agent ... |
| IMPUTATION OF PAYMENT | | . This term is used in Louisiana to signify the appropriation ... |
| IN ALIO LOCO | | . In another place. Vide Cepit in alio loco.
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| IN ARTICULO MORTIS | | . In the article of death; at the point of death. ... |
| IN AUTRE DROIT | | . In another's right. An executor, administrator or trustee, is said ... |
| IN BLANK | | . This is generally applied to indorsements, as, indorsements in blank, ... |
| IN CHIEF | | . Evidence is said to be in chief when it ... |
| IN COMMENDAM | | . The state or condition of a church living, which is ... |
| IN CUSTODIA LEGIS | | . In the custody of the law. In general, when things ... |
| IN ESSE | | . In being. A thing in existence. It is used ... |
| IN EXTREMIS | | . This phrase is used to denote the end of ... |
| IN FACIENDO | | . In doing, or in feasance. 2 Story, Eq. Jurisp. 1308. ... |
| IN FAVOREM LIBERTATIS | | . In favor of liberty.
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| IN FAVOREM VITAE | | . In favor of life.
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| IN FIERI | | . In the course of execution; a thing commenced but ... |
| IN FORMA PAUPERIS | | . In the character or form of a pauper. In England, ... |
| IN FORO CONSCIENTIAE | | . Before the tribunal of conscience; conscientiously. This term is applied ... |
| IN FRAUDEM LEGIS | | . In fraud of the law. Every thing done in fraudem ... |
| IN GREMIO LEGIS | | . In the bosom of the law. This is a ... |
| IN GROSS | | . At large; not appurtenant or appendant, but annexed to a ... |
| IN INVITUM | | . Against an unwilling party; against one who has not given ... |
| IN JUDICIO | | . In the course of trial; a course of legal proceedings. ... |
| IN JURE | | . In law; according to law, rightfully. Bract. fol. 169, b. ... |
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