Informer

A person who Informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute. INFORTIATUM (Lat.) In civil law. The second part of the Digest or Pandects of Justinian. See "Digest." This part, which commences with the third title of the twenty-fourth book, and ends with the thirty-eighth book, was thus called because it was the middle part, which, it was said, was supported and fortified by the two others. Some have supposed that this name was given to it because it treats of successions, substitutions, and other important matters, and, being more used than the others, produced greater fees to the lawyers. INFRA (Lat.) Below; under; beneath; underneath. The opposite of supra, above. Thus, we say, prima gradu est, — supra, pater, mater, infra, filius, filia; in the first degree of kindred in the ascending line, above is the father and the mother, below, in the descending line, son and daughter.

Inst. 3, 6. 1.

In another sense, this word _ signifies "within"; as, infra corpus civitatis, within the body of the county; infra praesidia, within the guards; infra elausum, within the close. So of time, "during"; infra furor em, during the madness. This use is not classical. The sole instance of the word in this sense in the Code, infra anni spatium (Code, bk. 5, tit. 9, § 2), is corrected to intra anni spatium, in the edition of the Corpus Jur. Civ. of 1833, at Leipsic. The use of infra for intra seems to have sprung up among the barbarians after the fall of the Roman empire. In Italian, the preposition fra, which is a corruption of infra, is used in the sense of intra. Bonetti, Ital. Diet. INFRA AETATEM (Lat.) Within or under age. INFRA ANNOS NUBILES (Law Lat.) Under marriageable years; not yet of marriageable age.

6 Coke, 22.

INFRA ANNUM LUCTUS (Lat.) Within anni spatium is the phrase used in the passage in the Code referred to.

See Corp. Jur. Civ. 1843, Leipsic.

Intra tempus luctus occurs in Novella 22, c.

40.

This year was at first ten months, afterwards twelve.

1 Beck, Med. Jur. 612.

INFRA BRACHIA (Lat.) Within her arms. Used of a husband de jure as well aa de facto.

2 Inst. 317.

Also, inter brachia. Bracton, fol.

148b.

It was in this sense that a woman could only have an appeal for murder of her husband inter brachia sua. Woman's Lawy., pp.

332, 335.