A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I In old English law. A prosecutor, or adversary at law.

An examination; a looking at; a view; an of Scial examination of commodities or manufactures, to ascertain their quality; an examination of books or of writings not under seal, in

L In old English law. We have inspected; an exemplification of letters patent, so called from the emphatic word of the old forms.

Solicitation, properly of an earnest or urgent kind. Instance conrt: the ordinary court of admiralty, as distinguished from the prize court, which is held in times of war.

I. I Jn^K English law. A stock or store of cattle, and other things; thew Bole stock upon a farm, including cattle, wagons, and all implements of husbandry.

2. {. Instant; an indivisible point of time. Instans est finis unius temporis et principium alterius: an instant is the end of one period of time, and the beginning of another.

I. Instantly; forthwith; without any delay, or the allowance of any tima v. Forthwith; Immediately. lustantia, L I. In old English law. Despatch; speedy prosecution.

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

To commence; to set on foot Justinian. Institutes of Justinian: elements in four books, compiled by Tribonian, under direction of the Emperor Justinian, and of the principal compon

Z. In the civil law. A person put in charge of a shop, with authority to buy and sell; a person having charge of buying or selling, at no particular place; a person entrusted with

I. In the civil law. An action which lay for those who had contracted with an institor, to compel the principal to perform.

L In old English law. To establish, enact or ordain. In the civil law. To prepare, provide or furnish; to designate as an heir; to appoint as an attorney; to commence, as an action

Institution. In English ecclesiastical ture of a clerk by the bishop.

Orders to an agent in relation to ployment; written statements of fact for the etc., in the prosecution and defense of actions as to the law ^nd their duty in a cause about them fo

A mean or help to the doing of a means of giving formal expression or effect ments of evidence: media through which conveyed to the minds of the triers.

2. In the dvil law. Furniture provided or necessary for the carrying on occupation; everything wfth which a cause contract containing the evidence of some

In equity pleading, a defect in of a failure to reply to a specific charge, or interrogatory in the bill

I. In old English law. An assault beravit: made an assault, and beat

I. Moreover; over and above.

assurance. A contract of indemnity for a stipulated consideration. Insurance whose agency insurance is effected. Insn^&ce sociation, x:ommonly incorporated, whose V. Double-insuran

A rising against civil or political

I In contemplation of marriage. Intaita mortis: in contemplation of death.

In old English law. Thieves inhabiting northern border; so called because they took booty as their accomplices, who were called from Scotland.

I. Entire and whole; untouched, as a first was. V. Res integra.

I. In old English law. Meaning;

The habit of drinking to offers, and such that sobriety or abstinence is

To fix the mind upon a thing; to mean edge of consequences, and with a determination produce such consequences.

I. In old English law. To apply one's of the Boman law, Theophilus and Dorotheus, published in 538; one divisions of the Corlaw. The investithe duties of his emguidance of attorney

TTnderstanding; judgment; intention. Intendment of law: the understanding or intelligence of the law; the judgment or meaning of the law; a presumption of law.

intention. Design; purpose; determination to act in a particular manner.

Intention; design; meaning or purpose. Intentio caeca mala: a blind or obscure meaning is bad, or ineffectual. Intentio inservire debet legibus, non leges intentioni: the intention

I. Between; among. Inter alia: among other things; — enactatnm fnit: among other things it was enacted. Inter alios: between other parties; — res gestas aliis non posse praejudiciu

/. In the civil law. To introduce or insert among or between others; to intercalate.

In the way, mode or form of exchange or interchange.

To use a common mutually with the inhabitants or tenants of a contiguous township, or manor.

A mutual privilege of common between the inhabitants or tenants of two or more adjoining townships, or manors.

Communication; literally, a running, or passing between persons or places.

In Scots law. An injunction. which he commanded chiefly used where a contention arose possession, or quasi possession. prohibitory, restoratory and exhibitory. In the canon law. In

I. In the civil law. An Interdictum Salviannm: the Salvian lay for the owner of a farm, to obtain tenant, pledged for the rent

I. In the civil law. Inserted among'others; additional.

I. In old English Idw. The guished from the principal; an interest term for years; an interest in a suit est in a term; a right to the possession

Concern; benefit; advantage; concern, benefit or advantage which the trial; a sum of money, or other by way of compensation for the loan most general term that can be used to chatt

I. It concerns; it is for the (imprimis) reipublicse ut pax in que paci adversentur provide cerns the state that peace be preserved whatever things are against peace be reipublicse

I. In old English law. A a felonious killing.

I. In the meantime: provisionally. in the meantime lot him be committed.

I. I. In old English law. changeably. between parties concerning Interdicts were of three kinds, — an ecclesiastical censure, ordinances, or the performinterdict; a kind of action.

1. 1. Imparlance.

In Scots law. An order or decree of court; an order made in open court Interlocutor of relevancy: a decree as to the relevancy of a libel or indictment in a criminal case.

Intermediate; something done or determined between the beginning and the end of a suit. Interlocutory costs: costs upon proceedings in the intermediate stages of a cause. Interlocu

In old Scots law. An interlocutory decree or decision.

To restrict a person within ^a particular territory as a political prisoner.

The customary law which determines the rights and regulates the intercourse of nations; the law of nations.

I. A messenger between two parties; a go-between.

I. I. To inquire into a point arising' collaterally in a cause, before determining the principal matter; to interplead.

interplede, enterplede. To settle a question of right to property or money adversely claimed, by litigation between the claimafits, for the security of a third person who holds the

A mode of obtaining the settlement of a question of right to property or money adversely claimed, by compelling the claimants to interplead, i. e. to litigate the title between the

Explanation tion or authoritative of some clause or word

L In old In the civil law. To its adoption.

A question writing drawn up nesses or to parties, — commission issued for and other courts law.

L Interruption, mon law of prescription. scriptionem semel does not take away or

In Scots on which a presci-iptive

interciare, I. In old European law. person; to sequester.

I. In old V. Lucid interval

I. In the civil self for another; to cution or defense of

In the civil which a person, not a subject-matter, interposes proceeding.

I. In the civil - mony cannot be received.

Incompetent

The condition will; the state of an

Without a will or a valid will. Quasi the executors of which

I. In the civil

I In the civil a will; an intestate. mentum non fecit, aut interpretation should always be made that what absurd may be avoided. or exposition of meaning; the explanadeclaration of

In Scots law. Notice; judicial notice of a proceeding; notice of an assignation to a debtor. Into! and uttol. In old English law. Toll or custom paid for things imported and export

To inebriate; to make drunk with spirituous liquor.

Any kind of liquor that will intoxicate, whether distilled or fermented.

Lat. Within; in; by; near; between. See Infra. Intra anni spatium: within the space of a year. Intra fidem: within belief; credible. Intra luctus tempus: within the time of mournin

1. 1. In old English law. To enter; to take in land; to drain marshy land, and reduce it to herbage or pasture ground.

intriusecum, 2. In old English law. That which is within; done or taken within; intrinsic.

I In old English law. Intrusion. Intrnsio est nbi qnis (cni nnllum jus competit in re, nee scintilla jnris), possessionem vacnam ingreditar: intrusion is where one who has no right

In English law. The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate of freehold is determined, before him in remainder or reversion; a kind of injury by ouster of the freehold.

In Scots law. The assuming of possession of property belonging to another; intermeddling.

I. To introduce or let in. Intromittere se: to introduce or intrude one's self; to intermeddle with.

I A view; regard; contemplation; view or sight Intuitu Del: in the sight of God.

To take effect; to operate; to serve to the use or advantage.

inwadiare, 2. 1 In feudal and old European law. To pledge; to engage or pledge lands; to mortgage.

Z. Z, In feudal and old European law. A pledge or mortgage.

I. To find. Inveniens: mosam et non corrumpens not destroy it, is punished, — an Inventus: found.

To find out; to contrive exist before.

I. In the civil law. the property found to belong to

I. I. In old English law. ure trove. In the civil law. Finding; one property by occupancy.

A finding out; the not before exist; the thing so

^ A list or schedule of names of articles singly or in levy of attachments, executions, by executors and administrators,

I. In old English law.

To give possession; to put of a fee, estate, or ofiice newly permanelit way so as to produce

Inquiry by observation,

In feudal law. The sion of lands or tenements given or solemnities.

I. Unwilling. Invito conferred on an unwilling party. of the debtor. Invito domino:

I. Unwilling; without the invitum.

A list or account of goods or consignee, containing the marks etc.

I. In the civil ' in,— things brought in by a security for the rent.

I. He himself; he alone. Ipsi, thing itself.