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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 ...
Illinois .</center> <pre>Breese's Reports. From 1819 to ...
ILLITERATE . This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters. 2. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
IN FAVOREM VITAE . In favor of life. ...
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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