A Law Dictionary and Glossary

/. I. In old English law. A punishment by exposing upon the sands, or sea shore.*

2. In the civil law. To defame; to attack or injure one's character by word or writing.

Z. An evil report; ignominy or disgrace. Infamia facti: general bad character. Infamia jnris: infamy arising from legal conviction of crime.

Z. Without character or reputation; not of good character; infamous.

A crime which formerly incapitated a person committing it from giving evidence as a witness; such as treason, prcemunire, felony, and every species of the crimen falsi, as perjury,

The condition of being without honor, repute or character; disqualification by conviction of some infamous offense to testify as a witness or sit as a juror.

intang, saa^ In old European law. A laying on of hands.

The status of an infant; nonage, or minority.

infangtiieof, infangthef, infangethef, infangenthef, infongenthet, infangenetheof, sax. In old English law. A thief taken in, or within; i, e. within the manor or liberty of any ma

L In the civil law. A child under the age of seven years; so called as not having the faculty of speech. Infans non multum a fnrioso distat: an infant is not far removed from [not

A person not of full age; a person under the age of legal capacity; a minor.

I. In the civil law. The age from birth till the completion of seven years.

In old Scots lav\ Investiture or infeudation, including both charter and seisin.

infendare, /. I. To confer or bestow a fief, feud, or fee; to enfeoff.

l, Infeodation, infeadation. Enfeoffment Infeodatlon of tithes: the granting of tithes to laymen.

A process of reasoning, by which one fact is deduced from another; the conclusion arrived at by such process.

Operating in the way of inference; argumentative. Applied to presumptive evidence.

I. In the civil law. Denial; the denial of a debt or liability; the denial of the claim or allegation of a party plaintiff.

I In old English law. An infidel or heathen. In feudal law. An unfaithful person; one who has violated his oath of fealty.

Z, 2. In old European law. -To pledge property.

intltiari, I. In the civil law. To deny; to deny one's liability; to refuse to pay a debt or restore a pledge; to deny an allegation'or a charge.

infltiator, I. In the civil law. One who denies; one who denies that he owes what is claimed, or has committed that of which he is accused.

sax. An assault made on a person inhabiting the same dwelling.

2. Without end or limit; unlimited; undefined. Infinitum in jure reprobatnr: that which is endless is reprobated in law.

Having the quality of diminishing force; having a tendency to weaken or render infirm. Inflrmative consideration: a hypothesis of which the criminative facts of a case admit, and w

I. I. In old European law. To be adjudged to the exchequer; to be seized for the public treasury; to be confiscated.

A proceeding in behalf of the sovereign, used both as a criminal prosecution and as a civil remedy in chancery, and, in England, in the court of exchequer, and by way of informatio

I. I. Informed, v. Non sum, etc.

Informator, 1, 1 One who informs violation of some penal statute.

I. I. To strengthen or fortify; to Infortiatn^, I. I. The name given by the the three parts or volumes of the Pandects.

I. In old English law. Misfortune

I. Below; under; underneath. This, ing of the word, but by a corruption of ancient in many phrases in place of intra, in the setatem: below or under age; within age. tus: within th

2. 2. In old English law. The commonalty of the kingdom.

I. I. In the eivil law. One who is his birth; one who is born in marriage of or both freed, or of parents, one free, the born of a free mother. In old European law. A freeman; a ye

Entry; a going into or upon. Ingress, entry, exit and return, — words used to express to go upon, off, and to return to lands. law. against another for thii increase, or enlarge, g

I. I. In old English law. An engrosser. Iiigrossator magni rotnli: ingrosser of the great roll; afterwards called clerk of the pipe.

A dweller in a place; one who dwells or resides permanently in a place, v. Resident,

To take as heir, on the death of the ancestor; to take by inheritance.

Blood which gives to the person who has it the character of heir, or which may be the medium of transmitting an estate of inheritance; blood which has an inheritable quality.

An estate which one has by descent, as heir to another, or which, however acquired, he may transmit to another, as his heir.

In English ecclesiastical law. A writ from a higher ecclesiastical court to forbid an inferior from further proceeding in a cause. In Scots law. A species of process by which a deb

I. To invalidate; to deprive of strength or forca

I. To prevent or embarrass motion, as by something about the feet; to obstruct or hinder generally; to disturb.

I. I Unjust; unequal: inequitable; not right. Iniquum est: it is unjust; — alios permittere, alios inhibere mercaturam: it is unjust to permit trade to some, and to inhibit it to o

In Scots law. A term applied to the decision of an inferior judge who has decided contrary to law, and who is said to have committed iniquity.

That which begins, or stands at the beginning; the first letter of a name.

1. 1. In Scots law. Prelimiu Eiries of testimony; the preliminary examination of a witness, corresponding to the voir dire of the English law.

Begun. Initiate curtesy: the interest of a husband in the lands of the wife, begun upon the birth of a child capable of inheriting, and continuing until the death of the wife, when

I. A, or the, beginning; the origin, cause or foundation of a thing.

I. fr. A laying on. Injecture le mains: laying hands on.

A prohibitory writ in the nature of an interdictum, in the civil law, granted by a court of equity in a variety of cases, to re- Mandatory injunction: an injunction allow the conti

I. Injury; wrong; the privation juria est quicquid non jure fit: rightfully. Injuria non prsesumitur: juria propria non cadat in beneflcium shall not fall to the advantage of him

1. I. In old English law. To

I. I In old English law. casions a wrong or injury.

Wrong; the privation or violation

/. Unjust; wrong. > Injustum de una aliqua ejus particula proposita it is wrong to decide or give an answer out examining the whole of it

I. I In old English law.,To outlaw or exile to the protection of the

In old English law. A pi'otection of the law, or to th^ benefit

I. I. In old English law. In-law tection of the law, in some frank-pledge

sax. In old English law. In-law,

In old English law. To place

sax. In old English law. The part which lay next, or most convenient and which he kept in his own hands hospitality.

Within a country, state or try. Inland bill: a bill of exchange in the same state or country with the

sax. In old English law. Under or decennary.

Tn old English law. Entangled,

I. I. In old English law. To by satisfying its demands.

2. In feudal law. Infidelity; faithlessness to one's feudal oath.

A person who lodges or dwells which forbids a parfy to thus amounts to a command injunction: an injunction granted end of the suit and forever the act in question. Prelimiinjunctio

A house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers; a house where travellers are furnished with whatever they have occasion for while on their way. lunamum, innaina, 1. 1. In

The condition of being innavigable.

Not navigable; applied to a vessel which, by peril of the sea, has ceased to be navigable.

One who keeps an inn.

Freedom from guilt

Iri the civil law. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class.

1. 1 In old English law. A close or enclosure.

1 1. We make known.

In Scots law. The exchange of one obligation for another.

In England, formerly, preparatory colleges for students of the law. They are Barnard's Inn, Clifford's Inn, Clement's Inn, New Inn and Staple Inn; formerly, also Fumival's Inn, Jjy

I Useless; without force or effect Inntilis labor, et sine frnctn non est effectus legis: useless and fruitless labor is not the effect of law. Inntilis stipulatio: an ineffectual

1. 1. Signifying; meaning. An emphatic word in the old Latin declarations in slander and libel, retained in modern practice as the name of the whole clause in which the application

I In tM civil law. Undutiful; contrary to, or not in accordance with flsural duty. Inofilciosnm testamentnm: an unnatural will; a w^^ which the claims of near relationship are disr

I Destitute of counsel; without the aid of counsel

In old English law. A customary payment of a penny on entering into and going out of a tenancy.

Inqnsestio, /. I. A judicial inquiry, or examination; an inquiry into a matter, by a jury summoned for the purpose; a jury; the finding of a jury in a civil case, ex parte. In Engl

I In old English law. An inquisition or inquest Inquisitio patriae: the inquisition of the country; the ordinary jury, as distinguished from the grand assise. Inqnisitio post morte

The finding of a jury, especially under a writ of inquiry.

enrollment. The entry of any act or matter upon a roll. V. Enrollment.

Of unsound mind; mad, deranged, disordered or diseased in mind. '

Unsoundness of mind; derangement of intellect; madness. Emotional insanity: insanity which arises under the impulse of passion in a person in possession of his ordinary faculties.

I. Insane; deranged; mad. Insanus [est] qui, abjecta ratione, omnia cum impetu et fnrore facit: an insane person is one who, having lost reason, does every thing with violence and

I. In the civil law. To subscribe an accusation; to bind one's self, in case of failure to prove an accusation, to suffer the punishment which otherwise the accused would have suff

I. In the civil law. A written accusation; an undertaking, in case of a failure to prove an accusation, to suffer the punishment which otherwise the accused would have suffered.

Unintelligible; without sense or meaning, from the omission of material words, etc. ^^

Lat. In old English law. A lying in wait. Insidiatio viarum: a lying in wait for one on the highway. Insidiatores viarum: waylayers.

I. Distinctive marks; characteristics.

L Together; jointly. Insimnl compntassent, or computasset: they accounted together, he accounted together, — one of the common counts, otherwise called a count upon an account stat

I. In the ciml law. To put into; to insert; to deposit a writing in court; to make known; to declare or acknowledge before a judicial oi Bcer.

I. I. In old English law. Information or suggestion.

I. I. In old English law. Solidly; without any separation of possession or ownership. to pay his debts; strictly, the state of a person, not engaged in trade, ■who is unable to pay

One who cannot or does not pay; one who is unable to pay his debts; strictly, a person, not engaged in trade, who is unable to pay his debts, v. Bankruptcy.