Black's Law Dictionary

As occasionally used in statutes prescribing the qualifications of public officers, trustees, etc., this term means soundness of moral principle and character, as shown by one pers

In pleading. The statement of matters of fact directly (excluding the necessity of inference or argument to arrive at the meaning) and in such appropriate terms, se arranged, as to

Habitual intemperance is that degree of intemperance from the use of intoxicating drinks which disqualifies the person a great portion of the time from properly attending to busine

To design, resolve, purpose. To apply a rule of law in the nature of presumption ; to discern and follow the probabilities of like cases.

One who has the charge, management or direction of some office, department or publlc business. Used in the constitutional and statutory law of some European governments to designat

This phrase is frequently used in conveyances, when reciting some other conveyance which has not yet been recorded, but which forms a link in the chain of title. In Pennsylvania, i

In Spanish law. The immediate agent of the minister of finance or the chief and principal director of the different branches of the revenue, appointed in the various departments in

The true meaning, the correct understanding or intention of the law;" a presumption or inference made by the courts. Co. Litt 78. -Common intendment. The natural and usual sense; t

1. In criminal law and the law of evidence. Purpose; formulated design; a resolve to do or forbear a particular act; aim; determination. In its literal sense, the stretching of the

Lat In the civil law. The formal complaint or claim of a plaintiff before the prætor. In old English law. A count or declaration in a real action, (narratio.) Bract, lib. 4, tr. 2,

A blind or obschre meaning is bad or ineffectual. 2 Buist 179. Said of a testator's intention.

The intention of a party ought to be subservient to [or in accordance with] the laws, not the laws to the intention. Co. Litt. 314a, 314b.

Hob. 123. My intent gives a name to my act.

Meaning; will; purpose; design. "The intention of the testator, to be collected from the whole will, is to govern, provided it be not uniawful or inconsistent with the rules of law

A writ that lay against him who entered into lands after the death of a tenant in dower or for life, etc., and held out to him in reversion or remainder. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 203.

Lat. Among; between.

Among other things. A term anciently used in pleading, especially in reciting statutes, where the whole statute was not set forth at length. Inter alia enactatum fuit, among other

Among other methods of acquiring property, a great, much-used, and celebrated method is that of gift Bract, fol. 11.

Between other persons; between those who are strangers to a matter in question.

Among the subtleties of the law. See AnEX Juris.

Betwcen her arms. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 35, §§ 1, 2.

Lat. In the civil law. To introduce or insert among or between others; to introduce a day or month into the calendar; to intercalate. Dig. 50, 16, 98, pr.

(Lat. Between the dog and the wolf.) The twilight; because then the dog seeks his rest, and the wolf his prey. 3 Inst 63.

Lat In the civll law. To become bound for another's debt

By way of exchange or interchange. This term properly denotes the method of signing deeds, leases, contracts, etc., executed in duplicate, .where cach party signs the copy which he

To enjoy a common mutually or promiscuously with the inhabitants or tenants of a contiguous township, vill or manor. 2 Bl. Comm. 33; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 271, § 290.

Letters of inter-communing were letters from the Scotch privy council passing (on their act) in the king's name, charging the lieges not to reset, supply or intercommune with the p

Between husband and wife.

Between conjunct persons. By the act 1621, c. 18, all conveyances or alienations between conjunct persons, unless granted for onerous causes, are declared, as in a question with cr

Communication; literally, a running or passing between persons or places; commerce. As applied to two persons, the word standing alone, and without a descriptive or qualifying word

Among others; in a general clause; not by name, (nommatim.) A term applied in the civll law to clauses of disinheritance in a will. Inst. 2, 13, 1; Id. 2, 13, 3.

In Roman law. A decree of the prætor by means of which, in certain cases determined by the edict, he himself directly commanded what should be done or omitted, particularly in caus

In French law. Every person who, on account of insanity, has become incapable of controlling his own interests, can be put under the control of a guardian, who shall administer his

Banishment by an order that no man should supply the person banished with fire or water, the two necessaries of life.

Lat. In Roman law. The Salvian interdict. A process which lay for the owner of a farm to obtain possession of the goods of his tenant who had pledged them to him for the rent of th

It sometimes happens that a plea which seems prima fade just, nevertheless is Injurious and unequal. Inst. 4, 14, 1, 2.

Lat. Interest. The interest of money; also an interest in lands. —Interesse termini. An interest in a term. That species of interest or property which a lessee for years acquires i

An interest in a term. That species of interest or property which a lessee for years acquires in the lands demised to him, before he has actually become possessed of those lands; a

In property. The most general term that can be employed to denote a property in lands or chattels. ' In its application to lands or things real, it is frequently used in connection

It especially concerns the state that peace be preserved in the kingdom, and that whatever things are against peace be prudently avoided. 2 Inst. 158.

See Maritime Interest.

Compound interest.

These words, inserted in an insurance policy, mean that the question whether the insured has or bas not an insurable interest in the subject-matter is waived, and the policy is to

One where the assured bas a reni, substantial, and assignable interest in the thing insured ; as opposed to a wager policy

It concerns the state that crimes remain not unpunished. Jenk. Cent pp. 30, 31, case 59; Wing. Max. 501.

It concerns the state that persons do not misuse their property. 6 Coke, 36a.

It concerns the state that [the lives of] men be preserved. 12 Coke, 62.

It concerns the state that things adjudicated be not rescinded. 2 Inst 360. It is matter of public concorn that solemn adjudications of the courts should not be disturbed. See Best

It concerns the state that there be an end of lawsuits. Co. Litt. 303. It is for the general welfare that a period be put to litigation. Broom, Max. 331, 343.

It concerns the sinte that men's last wills be held valld, [or allowed to stand.] Co.. Litt 230b.

It concerns the state that prisons be safe places of confinement. 2 Inst. 589.

It is the concern of the state that every one nses his property properly.

In English law. An action in the probate branch of the high court of justice, in which the question in dispute is as to which party is entitled to a grant of letters of administrat

(Between the jaws of the land.) A term used to describe a roadstead or arm of the sea enclosed between promontories or projecting headlands.

In patent law, this term designates a collision between rights claimed or granted; that is, where a person claims a patent for the whole or any integral part of the ground already

Lat. In the mean time; meanwhile. An assignee ad interim is one appointed between the time of bankruptcy and appointment of the regular assignee. 2 Bell, Comm. 355. —Interim commit

"In the mean time, let him be committed." An order of court (or the docket-entry noting it) by which a prisoner is committed to prison and directed to be kept there until some furt

In English law. A person appointed by justices of the peace to lake care of the property of a felon convict, until the appointment by the crown of an administrator or administrator

In Scotch law. A-judicial officer elected or appointed under the bankruptcy law to take charge of and preserve the estate until a fit person shall be elected trustee. 2 Bell, Comm.

One appointed to fill the office during a temporary vacancy, or during an interval caused by the absence or incapacity of the regular incumbent.

One made in the mean time, and until something is done.

A receipt for money paid by way of premium for a contract of insurance for which application is made. If the risk is rejected, the money is refunded, less the pro rata premium.

In old practice. To link together or interchangeably. Writs were called "interlaqueata" where several were issued against several parties residing in different counties, each party

The act of writing between the lines of an instrument; aiso what is written between lines. Morris v. Vanderen, 1 Dall. 67, 1 I Ed. 38; Russell v. Eubanks, 84 Mo. 88.

In Scotch practice. An order or decree of court; an order made to open court 2 Swint. 362; Arkley, 32. - —Interlocutor of relevancy. In Scotch practice. A decree as to the relevanc

In Scotch practice. A decree as to the relevancy of a libel or indictment in a criminal case. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 37a

Provisional; temporary ; not final. Something intervening between the commencement and the end of a suit which decides some point or matter, but ls not a final decision of the whol

In practice. Costs accruing upon proceedings in the intermediate stages of a cause, as distinguished from final costs; such as the costs of motions. 3 Chit. Gen. Pr. 507; Goodyear

"An older which decides not the cause, but only settles some intervening matter relating to it; as when an order is made, on a motion in chancery, for the plaintiff to have an inju

In the civil law. A sentence on some indirect question arising from the principal cause. Hal-lifax, Civil Law, b. 3, chi 9, no. 40.

Persons who run into business to which they have no right, or who interfere wrongfully; persons who enter a country or place to trade without license. Webster.

In the popular sense, this term denotes the contracting of a marriage relation between two persons considered as members of different nations, tribes, families, etc., as, between t

To interfere with property or the conduct of business affairs officiously or without right or title. McQueen v. Babcock, 41 Barb. (N. Y.) 339; In re Shinn's Estate, 166 Pa. 121, 30

In modern civil law. A broker; one who ls employed to negotiate a matter between two parties, and who for that reason is considered as the mandatary (agent) of both. Civ. Code La.

Intervening; interposed during the progress of a suit, proceeding, business, etc. or betwcen its beginning and end. —Intermediate account. In probate law. An account of an executor

In probate law. An account of an executor, administrator, or guardian filed subsequent to his first or initial account and bsfore his final account. Specifically in New York, an ac

In code practice. An order made between the commencement of an action and the entry of a final judgment, or, in criminal law, between the finding of the indictment and the completi

Toll for travel on a toll road, paid or to be collected from persons who pass thereon at points between the toll gates, such persons not passing by, through, or around the toll gat

In terms of determination; exactly in point. 11 Coke, 40b. In express or determinate terms. 1 Leon. 93.

See Easement.

Confusion of goods; the confusing or mingling together of goods belonging to different owners in such a way that the property of neither owner can be separately identified or extra

To restrict or shut up a pei-son, as a political prisoner, within a limited territory.

Relating to the interiori comprised within boundary lines; of interior concern or interest; domestic, as opposed to foreign. —Internal commerce. See Commerce. —Internal improvement

See Commerce.

With reference to governmental policy and constitutional provisions restricting taxation or the contracting of public debts, this term means works of general public utility or adva

In the legislation and fiscal administration of the United States, revenue raised by the imposition of taxes and excises on domestic products or manufactures, and on domestic busin

Such as lie wholly within the body of the particular state or countrv. The Garden City (D. C.) 26 Fed. 773.

See Commerce.

The law which regulates the intercourse of nations; the law of nations. 1 Kent, Comm. 1, 4. The customary law which determines the rights and regulates the intercourse of independe

A minister of a second order, charged with the affairs of the papal court in countries where that court has no nuncio.

A messenger between two parties; a go-between. Applied to a broker, as the agent of both parties. 4 C. Rob. Adm. 204.

Between peers; between those who stand on a level or equality, as respecte diligence, opportunity, responsibility, etc.

Between parties. Instruments in which two persons unite, cach making conveyance to or engagement with, the other, are called "papers inter partes." Smith v. Emery, 12 N. J. Law, 60

In the 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 Nat. § 752.

1. A plea by which a person sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him

When two or more persons claim the same thing (or fund) of a third, and he, laying no claim to it himself, is ignorant which of them has a right to it, and fears he may be prejudic

To insert words in a complete document.

The act of interpolating; the words interpolated.

To construe; to seek out the meaning of language; to translate orally from one tongue to anothor.

To interpret, and [in such a way as] to harmonize laws with laws, is the best mode of interpretation. 8 Coke, 169a.