A Law Dictionary and Glossary

/n, Imprimery. pression; t^e act of

I, In the first

To put in prison Imprisouamentnm, II.

A putting gaol; confinement or

Z. In the dvil

In Scots declared false and forged. Improper feud. A feud

In English benefice in the hands

In Scots law. forged. Improvement, An outlay of money or a settler expresses hia ing a cabin, clearing, of patents, an addition into a country from another country; a bringing good

I. In old English law. To enact enacted. In%diflcatio, I. In the civil law. Building on; with another's materials; building on another's materials.

inactitatum: building on one's land land with one's own or sow. Inbladatio: A pledge for persons persons going in and short account in writability. sets fire to the house of confla

I. I. From this day forth.

I. I. In old English law. To plant sowing.

inborow, sax. In old English law. going in. Inborh and outborh: a pledge for out

1. 1. In old English law. To take a ing; to inventory.

Want of capacity; want of legal

I. Of uncertain name and date,— a phrase applied to cases in the old reports. Incerti temporis: of uncertain time or date,— a title given to some English statutes enacted between M

One who wilfully and maliciously another.

2. In the civil law. Afire; a solet: in obscure cases, what most commonly in obscure or doubtful omnibus: in all; — oblipraesenti die debetur: in debt is due on the; — [fere] poena

I. Uncertain; doubtful. Incerta persona: an uncertain person; a person not particularly named or designated. Incerta pro nu Uis liabentur: uncertain things are held for nothing.

I. I. In old English law. Uncertainty.

incerta, incertuni, Z. Uncertain; doubtful; not known. Incertus possessor est quern ignoramus: an uncertain possessor is one whom we know not

Sexual intercourse between persons who, by reason of consanguinity or al Bnity, cannot lawfully be united.

Begun; incipient; incomplete. Inchoate dower: the interest of a wife in the land of her husband during his life-time.

Belonging or appertaining to; depending upon something more worthy or important

I In the civil and old English law. To fall into; to fall out; to happen; to fall upon or under; to become subject or liable to. Incidei'e in legem: to incur the penalty of a law.

L I. It is begun; a term applied, in English practice, to an entry on the roll in an action by giving merely the commencement - of the pleadings or other proceedings.

I. Against legal propriety, rule or order; irregular. Incivile est, nisi tota lege perspecta, una aliqua particnla ejus proposita, jndicare, vel respondere: it is improper, -withou

I. I. In old European law. To cry out for a person, as a crier does in court; to summon to court Inclamatns: proclaimed; summoned by proclamation.

I I. In old English law. An enclosure; the enclosure or circuit of a monastery.

To shut up.

I. In the civil law. A shutting in; an enclosing; inclusion. Inclusio unins est exclusio alterins: the inclusion of one is the exclusion of another.

I. In the civil and old English law. Incorporeal; not material; not having a body or substance. Incorporalia bello non, adquiruntnr: incorporeal things are not acquired by war.

2, In the civil law. An inhabitant; a dweller or resident; properly, one who has transferred his domicil to any country.

In a strict sense, that which comes in, or is received from, a

I. In the civil and old English law. Disadvantage; loss.

Legally inconsistent; incapable of legal union in the same person. Applied to offices.

Want of competency, — applied to evidence.

Not conclusive; that may be disputed or rebutted. Applied to presumptions.

I. In the civil law. Unadvisedly; unintentionally. Incontinent!, I, Incontinent, I, fr. Forthwith; immediately; incontinently. In the civil law. The.word did not always import inst

I. I We incorporate. One of the words used in England in creating a corporation.

II. In old English law. To give a body to; to incorporate.

The forming into a body; the creation of an artificial body having perpetual succession; a corporation.

Having no body, or corpus; not material, or tangible; not an object of sense, but existing only in contemplation of law^. Incorporeal chattels: a class of incorporeal rights growin

Produce of land; offspring or issue of animals.

I. In old English law. Increase; an advance in rent; an additional payment; a parcel of land enclosed out of common or waste ground. Incrementa: additions; increase of land by the

In old English law. To draw to one, as with a hook; to usurp.

To impute blame or guilt; to accuse.

Tending to establish guilt; intended to establish guilt; criminative. Applied to evidence.

Jn English ecclesiastical law. A clerk who is resident on his benefice, with cure. The word is now applied also to civil officers, to describe the person in present possession of a

I. To lie or rest upon; to lie or bend over a thing, as over a task; to apply one's self vigorously; to possess or preserva

I. I. In old English law. An incumbranca

A charge upon property; a legal claim or lien upon an

1. 1 In old English law. To incumbei:

U I To run or fall against, or into; to become liable to; to incur.

1 1 Thereof; therefrom; thereupon; therefore; therewith; of that thing.

I. I Indebted. Indebitatus assumpsit: being indebted,' he undertook, — the emphatic words of the old common counts in assumpsit; the name given to the action in which such counts w

I. In the civil and Scots law. The payment of what is not due.

I. In the ciml law. Not due, or owing.

In old English law. Not liable to pay tithes; not tithable.

iudefeisible. That which cannot be defeated, undone, or made void.

1 1 In old English law. Undefended; undenied by pleading; a defendant who makes no defense or plea.

Indeterminate; uncertain; unbounded; unlimited; undefined. Indefinite failure of issue: a failure of issue not merely at the death of the party whose issue are referred to, but at

I. I. Indefinite; undefined; without specification, or particular designation. Indeflnitum gequipollet universali: the undefined is equivalent to the universal or whole. Indeflnitu

To make or save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to make good; to reimburse to one what he has lost

I. Without loss, damage or harm; unharmed; one who experiences no loss, or is affected by no loss. 1 ndemnity. Security against loss; security against loss or liability from any fu

Literally, to make in teeth; to cut in the form of teeth; in old conveyancing, to cut through parchment or paper in a line composed of a series of uniform points or angles like the

In old conveyancing, a writing containing a conveyance, by cutting (through words, as the word chirographum, written along the line of division), in a serrated line; in modern conv

Covenants in an instrument which are independent of each other, or the performance of one of which does not depend upon the performance of the other. Independenter se habet assecur

I. Speech is the index of the mind or thought; language is the exponent of intention.

I. I. In the civil law. To show or discover; to fix or tell the price of a thing; to accuse.

A sign or token; a fact pointing to some inference or conclusion.

I I. In English law. A writ of prohibition that lies for a patron, whose clerk is sued in the spiritual court by the clerk of another patron, for tithes amounting to a fourth part

I. Signs; marks; badges; facte proved as pointing to facte sought. Indicia indubitata quse fldein extorquent: undoubted tokens which extort belief. Indiciis luce clarioribus: by in

I In the civil law. A sign or mark; a species of proof, answering very nearly to the circumstantial evidence of the common law.

To accuse by the finding or presentment of a grand jury.

2. I. In old English law. An indictments

1. 1. In old English law. To indict Indictatns: indicted.

{. In old public law. A declaration; a proclamation. Indictio belli: a declaration or indictment of war.

A written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to and presented upon oath by a grand jury.

Impartial; disinterested.

I In old English law. A subject born* one born within the realm, or naturalized by act of parliament

I. I. In old English law. Without delay.,

Evidence which goes to prove a fact, by establishing otheir or subordinate facts, from which the principal fact may be inferred.

L Undivided; that which two hold in common without partition.

In English ecclesiastical law. The giving of a clerk or parson corporal possession of a church, by leading him into it, and delivering him the keys, and by his tolling a bell, or t

I In the civil law. Industrial; produced by industry.

ini(miinicatnm,lLIn fetidal and old European law. In demesne; reserved for the use of the lord.

I. I. In old English law. Indorsement; an indorsement; a writing on the back.

I. I. In old English law. To put or write on the back; to indorse. Indorsavit: he indorsed. Indorsatum: indorsed.

endorse. To put on the back; to write on the back; to write one's name on the back of a bill of exchange, promissory note or check, with or without other words; to transfer by such

endorsee, Indossatarius, I. I. The person in whose favor a biU, note or check is indorsed; the person to whom it is transferred by the indorsement of the payee, or any previous hol

endorsement. Any writing on the back of an instrument or paper; a writing on the back of a paper or parchment containing another writing; the writing of one's name on the back of a

endorser, Indossans, I. I. The person by whom a biU, note or check is indorsed,

I. I. Indorsement; an indorsement

Introduction; a leading to, or bringing in; that which leads to the commission of crime; motive.

I. In old maritime law, a period of twenty days after the safe arrival of a vessel under bottomry, to dispose of the cargo, and raise the money to pay the creditor. In internationa

I. In the civil law. Obliteration, by drawing the pen or stylus over the writing.

I. To be in; to be inherent in; to be a component part of.

Z. It is implied by law.

An accident produced by any physical cause which is inevitable, such as lightning, storms, perils of the sea, inundation, earthquake, sudden death or illnesa