Black's Law Dictionary

A form of "enroll," used in the old books. 3 Rep. Ch. 63, 73; 3 East, 410.

See Enrollment.

Unsound in mind; of unsound mind; deranged, disordered or diseased in mind. Violently deranged; mad.

Unsoundness of mind; madness; mental alienation or derangement; a morbid psychic condition resulting from disorder of the brain, whether arising from malformation or defective orga

He is insane who, reason being thrown away, does everything with violence and rage. 4 Coke, 128.

In payments, more must not be received than has been received once for all. 9 Coke, 53.

Lat. In the civll law. To subscribe an accusation. To bind one's self, in case of failure to prove an accusation, to suffer the same punishment which the accused would have suffere

In the writing-case of the judge; among the judge's papers. "That is a thing that rests in scrinio judicis, and does not appear in the body of the decree." Hardr. 51.

Lat. In the civil law. A written accusation in which the accuser undertakes to suffer the punishment appropriate to the offense charged, if the accused Is able to clear himself of

In evidence. Anything written or engraved upon a metallic or other solid substance, intended for great durability ; as upon a tombstone, pillar, tablet, medal, ring, etc. In modern

The name given by the old English law to any written Instrument by which anything was granted. Blount.

In pleading. Unintelligible; without sense or meaning, from the omission of material words, etc. Steph. PI. 377. See Union °swer Pipe Co. v. Olson, 82 Minn. 187, 84 N. W. 756.

In several; in severalty. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54, § 20.

In old records. An inditch ; an interior ditch ; one made within another, for greater sechrity. Speiman.

Lat. Highwaymen ; persons who lle in wait in order to commit some felony or other misdemeanor.

Ensigns or arms; distinctive marks; badges; indicia; characteristics.

An evil counsellor. Cowell.

Cowell. Evil advice or counsel.

Dealing with the same or a kindred subject-matter.

In simple pilgrimage. Bract fol. 338. A phrase in the old law of essoins. See In Generali Passagio.

Townsh. PI. 44. Lat Together; Jointly. —Insimul eompntassent. They accounted together. The name of the count in assumpsit upon an account stated ; it being averred that the parties

They accounted together. The name of the count in assumpsit upon an account stated ; it being averred that the parties had settled their accounts together, and defendant engaged to

One species of the writ of formedon brought against a stranger by a coparcener on the possession of the ancestor, etc. Jacob.

In Spanish law. The presentation of a public document to a competent judge, in order to obtain his approbation and sanction of the same, and thereby give it judicial authenticity.

LatIn the civil law. To put Into; to deposit a writing in court, answering nearly to the modern expression "to file." Si non mandatum actis insinuatum est, if the power or authorit

Lat In old English law. Information or suggestion. Ex insinuatione, on the information. Reg. Jud. 25, 50.

In the civil law. The transcription of an act on the public registers like our recording of deeds. It was not necessary in any other alienation but that appropriated to the purpose

In the civil law. The first production of a will, or the leaving it with the registrar, in order to its probate. Cowell ; Blount.

In medical jurisprudence. Sunstroke or heat-stroke: heat prostration

In the civil law. For the whole; as a whole. An obligation in solido is one where each of the several obligors is liable for the whole; that is, it is joint and several. Henderson

For the whole. Si plures sint fidejussores, quotquot eruni numero, singuli in solidum tenentur, if there be several sureties, however numerous they may be, they are individually bo

In the soil or ground. In solo alieno, in another's ground. In solo proprio, in one's own ground. 2 Steph. Comm. 20.

The condition of a person who is insolvent; inability to.pay one's debts; lack of means to pay one's debts. Such a relative condition of a man's assets and liabilities that the for

In English law. A fund, consisting of moneys and securities, which, at the time of the passing of the bankruptcy act, 1861, stood, in the Bank of England, to the credit of the comm

One who cannot or does not pay; one who is unable to pay his debts; one who is not solvent; one who has not means or property sufficient to pay his debts. See Insolvency. —Insolven

A term applied to a law, usually of one of the states, regulating the settlement of insolvent estates, and according a certain measure of relief to insolvent debtors. Co.ok v. Roge

Specific; specifically. Thus, to decree performance in specie is to decree specific performance. In kind; in the same or like form. A thing is said to exist in specie when it retai

A prosecutor or adversary.

The examination or testing of food, fluids or other articles made subject by law to such examination, to ascertain their fitness for use or commerce. Pcople v. Co.mpagnie Generate

Laws authorizing and directing the inspection and examination of various kinds of merchandise intended for sale, especially food, with a view to ascertaining its fitness for use, a

This phrase refers to the right of a party, in a civil action, to inspect and make copies of documents which are essential or material to the maintenance of his cause, and which ar

A mode of trial formerly in use in England, by which the judges of a court decided a point in dispute, upon the testimony of their own senses, without the intervention of a jury. T

Officers whose duty it Is to examine the quality of certain articles of merchandise, food, weights and measures, etc.

Lat. In old English law. We have inspected. An exemplification of letters patent, so calied from the emphatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke, 53b.

The ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, offico or rank, as the placing a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary into his stall or seat or a knight into his order

Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown.

In pleading and prao-tice. Solicitation, properly of an earnest or urgent kind. An act is often said to be done at a party's "special instance and request." In the civil and French

In English law. That division or department of the court of admiralty which exercises all the ordinary admiralty jurisdiction, with the single exception of prize cases, the latter

In Spanish law. The institution and prosecution of a snit from its commencement untll definitive judgment. The first instance, "primera instanda," is the prosecution of the suit be

An "instantaneous" crime is one which is fully consummated or completed in and by a single act (such as arson or murder) as distinguished from one which involves a series or repeti

Immediately; instantly; forthwith; without delay. Trial instanter was had where a prisoner between attainder and execution pleaded that he was not the same who was attainted. When

Lat. Likeness; the likeness, size or equivalent of a thing. Instar dentium, like teeth. 2 Bl. Comm. 295. Instar omnium, equivalent or tantamount to alL Id. 146; 3 Bl. Comm. 231.

In the condition in which it was. See Status Quo.

In old English deeds. A stock or store of cattle, and other things; the whole stock upon a farm, including cat-lie, wagons, plows, and all other implements of husbandry. 1 Mon. Ang

Incitation; urging; solicitation. The act by which one incites another to do something, as to commit sonu crime or to commence a suit. State v. Frak-er, 148 Mo. 143, 49 S. W. 1017.

In the construction of agreements words are interpreted against the person using them. Thus, the construction of the stipulatio is against the stipulator, and the construction of t

In stipulations, the time when we contract is regarded. Dig. 50, 17, 144, 1.

To plant or establish.

In the law of intestate succession. According to the roots or stocks; by representation; as distinguished from succession per capita. See Per Stirpes; Per Capita.

Lat. In the civil law. A clerk in a store; an agent.

Lat. In the civil law. The name of an action given to those who had contracted with an institor (q. v.) to compel the principal to performance. Inst 4, 7, 2; Dig. 14, 3, 1; Story,

The charge given to a clerk to manage a shop or store. 1 Bell, Comm. 506, 507.

n. In the civil law. A person named in the will as heir, but with a direction that he shall pass over the estate to another designated person, called the "substitute." In Scotch la

A name sometimes given to text-books containing the elementary principles of jurisprudence, arranged in an orderly and systematic manner. For example, the Institutes of Justinian,

An elementary work of the Roman jurist Gaius ; important as having formed the foundation of the Institutes of Justinian, (q. v.) These Institutes were discovered by Niebuhr in 1816

One of the four component parts or principal divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis, being an elementary treatise on the Roman law, in four books. This work was compiled from earlie

The name of four volumes by Lord Coke, published A. D. 1628. The first is an extensive comment upon a treatise on tenures, compiled by Littleton, a judge of the common pleas, temp.

Lat In Roman law. The appointment of the hæres in the will. It corresponds very nearly to the nomination of an executor in English law. Without such an appointment the will was voi

The commencement or inauguration of anything. The first establishment of a law, rule, rite, etc. Any custom, system, organization, etc., firmly established. An elementary rule or p

Lat Works containing the elements of any science; institutions or institutes. One of Justinian's principal law collections, and a similar work of the Roman jurist Gaius, are so ent

To convey information as a client to an attorney or as an attorney to a counsel; to authorize one to appear as advocate ; to give a case in charge to the jury.

In French criminal law. The first process of a criminni prosecution. It includes the examination of the accused, the preliminary interrogation of witnesses, collateral investigatio

A written document; a formal or legal document in writing, such as a contract, deed, will, bond or lease. State v. Phillips, 157 Ind. 481, 62 N. E. 12; Cardenas v. Miller, 108 Cal.

Lat That kind of evidenœ which consists of writings not under scat; as court-rolls, accounts, and the like. 3 Co. Litt 487.

The document by which an appeal is brought in an English matrimonial cause from the president of the probate, divorce, and admiralty division to the full court. It is analogous to

Instrumento of evidence are the media through which the evidence of facia, either disputed or required to be proved, is conveyed to the mind of a judicial tribunal; and they compri

An instrument in Scotland by which the delivery of "saisine" (i. e., seisin, or the feudal possession of land) is attested. It is subscribed by a notary, in the presence of witness

In aid.

A quantity of corn paid by those who are thirled to a mill. See Thirlaqe.

In equity pleading. The legal inadequacy of an answer in equity which does not fully and specifically reply to some one or more of the material allegations, charges or interrogator

Lat. An island; a house not connected with other houses, but separated by a surrounding space of ground. Calvin.

Every one is more dull in his own business than in another's.

Lat. Moreover; over and above. An old exchequer term, applied to a charge made upon a person in bis account. Blount.

Such a real and substantial interest in specific property as will sustain a contract to indemnify the person interested against its loss. Mutual F. Ins. Co. v. Wagner (Pa.) 7 Atl.

A contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, one party undertakes to compensate the other for loss on a specified subject by specified perils. The party agreeing to make the

An agent employed by an insurance company to solicit risks and effect insurances. Agents of insurance companies are calied "general agents" when clothed with the general oversight

A broker through whose agency insurances are effected. 3 Kent, Comm. 260. See Broker.

A public officer in several of the states, whose duty is to supervise the business of insurance as conducted in the state by foreign and domestic companies, for the protection and

A corporation or association whose business is to make contracts of insurance. They are either mutual companies or stock companies. A "mutual" insurance company is one whose fund f

See Policy.

To engage to indemnify a persen against pecuniary loss from specified per-lis. To act as an insurer.

The person who obtains insurance on his property or upon whose life an insurance is effected,

The underwriter or insurance company with whom a contract of insurance is made. The person who undertakes to indemnify another by a contract of insurance is called the "insurer," a

One who participates ip an insurrection; one who opposes the execution of law by force of arms or who rises in revolt against the constituted authorities. A distinction is often ta

A rebellion or rising of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government. See Insurgent. Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the

In old English law. A kind of thieves inhabiting Redesdale, on the extreme northern border of England; so called because they took in or received such booties of cattle and other t

Temporary inclosures made by customary tenants of a manor under a special custom authorizing them to inclose part of the waste until one or more crops have bcen raised on it. Elton

Used chiefly in the law of taxation, this term means such property as has no intrinsic and marketable value, but is merely the representative or evidence of value, such as certific

In so much; so much ; so far; so greatly. Reg. Orig. 07, 106.

Lat Whole; untouched. Res integra means a question which is new and undecided. 2 Kent, Comm. 177.