Law Dictionary

A person who Informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute. INFORTIATUM (Lat.) In civil law. The second part of the Dige

Prior to such a decree, the interest of the informer is conditional, and under the decisions of this court it continues to be so until the money is paid over, as required by law.

the Government's privilege to withhold from disclosure the identity of persons who furnish information of violations of law to officers charged with enforcement of that law

In the forum; in the court.

In the tribunal of conscience; in a court of equity.

In the forum of contention or litigation. IN FORO ECCLESIATICO (Law Lat.) In an ecclesiastical forum; in the ecclesiastical court. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 57, § 13. IN FORO SAECULARI (La

In the home.

In the ecclesiastical court.

In a secular court.

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

The name given by the glossators to the second of the three parts or volumes into which the Pandects were divided. The glossators at Bologna had at first only two parts, the first

Misfortune; accident; misadventure.

Below; within; beneath.

Under age.

Under marriageable years.

Within a year.

Within the year of mourning, the time of prohibited remarriage (Civil Law).

(Within the year of mourning.) The phrase is used In reference to the marriage of a widow within a year after her husband's death, which was prohibited by the civll law.

Within her arms.

Within the state. INFRA CORPUS COMITATUS (Lat.) Within the body of the county. The common-law courts have jurisdiction infra corpus comitatus. The admiralty, on the contrary, has n

Within the body of the county.

A breach or violation of a duty, a statute or a contract.

Infra dignitatem, beneath the dignity.

Beneath the dignity of the court; unworthy of the consideration of the courtWhere a bill in equity is brought upon a matter too trifling to deserve the attention of the court, it i

Beneath the courts dignity.

While insane.

Within an inn.

Within the jurisdiction.

Within allegiance to the king.

Within the boundaries.

Within the walls; within complete subjection.

This term is used in relation to prizes, to signify that they have been brought completely in the power of the captors that is within the towns, camps, ports or fleet of: the capto

Within the protection; within the defenses. In international law, when a prize or other captured property, is brought into a port of the captors or within their lines or otherwise

Within the four seas, i. e., in England.

Within the four walls.

Within the realm.

Within six years.

The term “infrastructure” includes all buildings, structures, airfields, port facilities, surface and subterranean utility systems, heating and cooling systems, fuel tanks, pavemen

the term “infrastructure and support systems” includes support and maintenance services and facilities, electricity delivery mechanisms and methods, regulatory treatment of investm

“infrastructure facility” has the meaning given the term in section 2332f(e)(5) of this title ; / “infrastructure facility” means any publicly or privately owned facility providing

The term “infrastructure project” means a capital investment project in a filed or approved business plan, which is administered by a governmental entity (such as a Federal, State,

Under age; not of age. Applied to minors.

Within six months.

Within three days.

In fraud of creditors.

In fraud of the law.

A person must have attained the age of forty to be a member of the legislative body; twenty- five, to be a judge of a tribunal de premiere instance; twenty-seven to be its presiden

To rig or equip a vessel. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 2, art. 1.

Any use beyond the valid terms of a license is, of course, an infringement of a patent.

Eames had a right to use any of the parts in Godfrey's combination, if he did not use the whole; and if he used all the parts but one, and for that substituted another mechanical s

Whatever is at his call in the service of the enterprise—brawn and intelligence, factories and lands, patents and machinery—will be viewed upon an accounting as if held upon a quas

the term “INF Treaty” means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-R

To cause to flee.

A band or fillet.

Complete, or without abbrevia- examined as to the cause in which he is to tion, e. g. a copy of a paper. Of the entire testify, he must deny bearing malice or illamount due, as use

Neither physically nor civilly dead. The term "life" alone has also been taken in the same sense, as including natural and civil life; e. g., a lease made to a person "during life"

In medical jurisprudence. A pharmaceutical operation, which consists in pouring a hot or cold fluid upon a substance whose medical properties it is desired to extract. The product

In the future.

Meadow or pasture. Jacob.

Error dwells in general expressions. 3 Sumn. (U. S.) 290. restored in genere, as distinguished from those which must be returned in specie, or specifically, are called fungibles. K

In the general passage, i. e., with the Crusaders to the Holy Land. See Essoin de terra sancta .

In kind.

In general, whoever alleges anything, whether plaintiff or defendant, is under the necessity of proving it.

A trick; a fraudulent scheme.

In old English law. The freemen, yeomanry, or commonalty of the kingdom. Cowell. Applied sometimes also to the barons.

Plural of Ingenuus.

The condition of a freeman or a manumitted slave.

The freemen of the kingdom.

A freeman born free.

Earnest given to when hired or retained. The same ints s-penny. Cowell.

In Roman law, ingratitude was accounted a sufficient cause for revoking a gift or recalling the liberty of a freedman. Such is also the law of France, with respect to the first cas

The term “ingredient statement” means a statement which contains— (1) the name and percentage of each active ingredient, and the total percentage of all inert ingredients, in the p

In the lap of the law.

EGRESS, AND REGRESS. These words are frequently used in leases to express the right of the lessee to enter, go upon, and return from the lands in question. INGRESSU (Lat.) An ancie

These words express the right of a lessee to enter, go upon, and return from the lands in question.

A writ of entry.

Ingress, which see.

The right to enter and depart.

At large; not appurtenant or appendant, but annexed to a man's person, e. g., common granted to a man and his heirs by deed is common in gross; or common in gross may be claimed by

An engrosser.

In practice. The act of copying, from a rough draft, a writing, in order that it may be executed; as, ingrossing a deed. INHABITANT (Lat. in, in, habeo, to dwell). One who has a ha

one who has his domicil in a place is an inhabitant of that place; one who has an actual fixed residence in a place. A mere intention to remove to a place will not make a man an in

any one who is liable to the process of the United States' courts.

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

A tax assessed in England on inhabited dwellinghouses, according to their annual value (St. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, I 11), which is payable by the occupier, the l

In this behalf.

In these words; in the same words. Dig. 34. 4. 30. IN HAEREDES NON SOLENT TRANSIre actiones quae poenales ex maieficio sunt. Penal actions arising from anything of a criminal natur

Actions which are penal arising out of crime do not pass to the heirs.

In these words; In the same words.

The ability of one mode of transportation to operate with a rate lower than competing types of transportation is precisely the sort of 'inherent advantage' that the congressional p

Same as Condition inherent.

On this principle it is, that Courts of justice are universally acknowledged to be vested, by their very creation, with power to impose silence, respect, and decorum, in their pres

Same as Covenant inherent.

The term "inherent Federal function" means a Federal function that may not legally be delegated to an Indian Tribe.

The term “inherent Federal functions” means those Federal functions which cannot legally be delegated to Indian tribes. / The term "inherent Federal functions" means thos

Indisputably under our constitutional system the right to try offenses against the criminal laws, and, upon conviction, to impose the punishment provided by law, is judicial, and i

a situation so inherently coercive that its very existence is irreconcilable with the possession of mental freedom by a lone suspect against whom its full coercive force is brought

when an employer practice is inherently destructive of employee rights and is not justified by the service of important business ends, no specific evidence of intent to discourage

Some conduct, however, is so 'inherently destructive of employee interests' that it may be deemed proscribed without need for proof of an underlying improper motive. That is, some

The term “inherently Federal functions” means functions and responsibilities which, under section 2006(c) of this title , are noncontractable, including— (A) the allocation and obl