Instar

I. Likeness; the likeness, size or equivalent of a thing. Instar dentium: like teeth. Instar omnium: equivalent or tantamount to all.

Lat. Likeness; the likeness, pize, or equivalent of a thing. IJnstar dentium, like teeth. 2 Bl. Comm. 295. Jnstar

Like; resembling; equivalent to. Instar omnium. Representative of all. Money is said to be instar omnium as to values;' one act, as to the purpose of all acts; '° and one case, as to the reasoning in all cases of its class, ^i > 1 Whart. Ev. §§ 845-47, cases; 25 Law J. 3-7 (1887), = [4 South. Law Eev.'639 (1878), cases. ' Spelled, also, instalment. i Pelton V. Bemis, 44 Ohio St. 57 (1886); Eyall v. Prince, 82 Ala. 866 (1886). » Cushman v. Jewell, 7 Hun, 526 (1876); Smith v. Newland, 9 id. 563 (1877); 89 ni. 233; 20 Kan. 137; 27 Mich. 209, 463; 38 id. 94; 41 N. Y. 155; 70 id. 466; 13 Bep. 511. » 3 Chitty, Bl. Com. 287. ' See 3 Kent, 365, 378; 18 Johns. 292. 8 Moffat V. Dickson, 3 Col. 315 (1877). « 1 Bl, Com. 266; 2 id. 466; 3 id. 231. IlfSTITUTE. 1. To commence: as, to institute an action, proceeding, suit. 2. To appoint: an instituted executor is one chosen by the testator. 3. To establish upon a permanent basis. Whence institutional. Institutes. Text-boolis exhibiting the established principles of jurisprudence; comprehensive treatises upon elementary law; commentaries upon law. Institution. A permanent establishment, as contradistinguished from an enterprise of a temporary character.! See Permanent. Sometimes describes the establishment or place where the business or operations of a society or association are carried on; at other times, designates the organized body.'' HTSTIlirCT. 1. To give orders to an agent in relation to the duties of his employment. Section 251, Eev. St., empowei-ing the secretary of the treasury to issue regulations for the government of collectors of revenue, makes a distinction between " instructions " and " regulations," which is inherent in the nature of the two things. An instruction is a direction to govern the conduct of the particular of Qcer to whom it is addressed; a regulation affects a class or classes of of Bcers.' 3. To direct a jury as to their duties under ■ the law in a cause about to be submitted to them for a verdict. Binding or peremptory instruction. Directs the kind of verdict the jury should return. The jury may be instructed to And for the defendant, where, if the verdict were against him, the coiirt would set it aside.^ The practice saves time and costs; gives the certainty of applied science to the results of judicial investigation; draws clearly the line which separates the provinces of the judge and the jury, and fixes where it belongs the responsibility which should be assumed by the court.' Misinstruet. To charge a jury erroneously with respect to the law in the case pending before them. See Advise; Charge, 3 (2, c); Jury, Trial by. I Indianapolis v. Sturdevant, 24 Ind. 895 (1865). a Gerke v. Purcell, 85 Ohio St. 244 (1874); Appeal Tax Court V. St. Peter's Academy, 50 Md. 345 (1878). 3 Landram v. United States, 16 Ct. CJ. 86 (1880). 4 Griggs V. Houston, 104 V. S. 553 (1881); Montclau- v. Dana, 107 id. 162 (1882); 93 id. 143; 106 id. 30; 122 id. 411; g Mc Crary, 268; 17 F. E. 133.

/. Likeness; equivalent. Instar