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Incivile

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Unjustly; improperly.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat. Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law. Incivile est, nisi tota lege perspecta, ana aliqua particula ejus proposita, judiecare, vel respondere. It is improper, without looking at the whole of a law, to give judgment or advice, upon a view of any one clause of it. Dig. 1, 3, 24. Incivile est, nisi tota sententia inspecta, de aliqua parte judicare. It is irregular, or legally improper, to pass an opinion upon any part of a sentence, without examining the whole, Hob. 171a,

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. Irregular; against due course of law; improper.