Law Dictionary

Such a municipal corporation 'can exercise no power which is not, in express terms, or by fair implication, conferred upon it.

When the prohibition of state action is not specific but inferable from the scope and purpose of the federal legislation, it must be clear that the federal provisions are inconsist

Such repeals are not favored, and usually occur only where there is such an irreconcilable conflict between an earlier and a later statute that effect reasonably cannot be given to

If Congress, in enacting the 8th section of the act of 1895, had intended to totally supersede the act of 1892 as to the Indian territory, that purpose would naturally have been ex

The mere act of making a second testament, is a revocation of a preceding testament, in relation to personal estate; the law throwing the personal estate on the executor as a trust

A disregard of the command of the statute is a wrongful act, and where it results in damage to one of the class for whose especial benefit the statute was enacted, the right to rec

What is implied in a statute, pleading, contract, or will, is as much a part of it as what is expressed

A statute may either expressly prohibit or enjoin an act, or it may impliedly prohibit or enjoin it, by affixing a penalty to the performance or omission thereof. It makes no diffe

See "Trust."

See "Eesulting Use."

An unconditional promise by the endorser or a bill to pay it, or an acknowledgment of his liability, and knowledge of his discharge by the laches of the holder, will amount to an i

The term “implied warranty” means an implied warranty arising under State law (as modified by sections 2308 and 2304(a) of this title) in connection with the sale by a supplier of

I. In old English law. To put in; to put upon, or impose. Imposuit commune ballium: he put in common bail.

To import means to bring into the country. Those acts begin and end at water's edge.

A thing brought thing imported.

The term “import activity summary statement” refers to data or information transmitted electronically to the Customs Service, in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary p

slaves, because free persons cannot be said to be imported.'

The laying of a duty on imports, although an exercise of the taxing power, is also an exercise of the power to regulate foreign commerce... The exemption of imports from the duty o

The term “imported” means entered, or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory of the United States. / For purposes of this section, the terms "imp

the term “imported dairy product” means any dairy product that is imported into the United States, including dairy products imported into the United States in the form of— (1) milk

For purposes of this subsection, the term “imported property” means any property if— (i) such property was completed outside the United States, or (ii) less than 50 percent of the

The term “imported taxable product” means any product (other than an ozone-depleting chemical) entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing if any ozone-depl

the settled law is that no one but the owner or consignee, or in case of his sickness or absence, his agent or factor, is authorized to discharge that obligation [of entering goods

Sales by the importer are held to be exempt from State taxation because the importer purchases, by the payment of the duty, a right to dispose of the merchandise as well as to brin

The term “importer that is a qualified handler” means an entity— (I) whose principal activity is the importation of cut flowers or cut greens into the United States (either directl

The term “importing authority” means 1 or more entities designated by a Participant into whose territory a shipment of rough diamonds is imported as having the authority to enforce

For purposes of this section, the term “import license” means any documentation used to administer a quantitative restriction imposed or modified after July 26, 1979 under— (1) sec

men as well as things cannot, it seems to me, be denied.

The term “import sensitive agricultural product” means an agricultural product— (A) with respect to which, as a result of the Uruguay Round Agreements the rate of duty was the subj

Urgent solicitation, with troublesome frequency and pertinacity. Generally applied to solicitation of a testa-

(Lat.) In old English law. An imposition, tax, or tribute. The older expression was Tnaletot. Stat. Confirm. Chartar. c. 7. 2 Inst, 530.

An impost; a tax; a tribute. See 24 N. J. L. 385.

Imposts, taxes, or contributions.

Impossible.

That which. In the constitution and course of nature or the law, no man can do or perform. Impossibility is of the following several sorts: An act is physically impossible when it

if a party by his contract charge himself with an obligation possible to be performed, he must make it good, unless its performance is rendered impossible by the act of God, the la

One is not bound to do an impossibility.

if a deed for land is to be made void, by the happening of a subsequent condition, the performance of which is impossible at the time the deed is made, the condition only is void,

One in which a party undertakes the performance of an act impossible in its nature. See 95 Cal. 353, 30 Pac. 555.

Such contracts as cannot be performed, either because of the nature of the obligation undertaken, or because of some supervening event which renders the performance of the obligati

I. Impossibla is no obligation of [to non, etc.

Impost is a duty on imported goods and merchandise. In a larger sense, it is any tax or imposition.

Taxes, duties, or impositions. A duty on imported goods or merchandise. Federalist, No. 30; Elliott, Deb. 289; Story, Const. § 949; 12 Wheaton (U. S.) 437. In a larger sense it is

all taxes makes superfluous several of the terms of Art. I, § 8, cl. 1 of the Constitution, which grants Congress the "Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises."

In medical jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the species. It has also been used as synonymous with "sterility." The principal use of the term is as a grou

I. Impotent; ing no power of himself.

/. Inability; inability or impossibility what the law requires.

if a lessee covenanteth to leave a wood in as good plight as the wood was at the time of the lease, and afterwards the trees are overturned by tempest, he is discharged of his cove

Co. Litt. 29. The impossibility of doing what is required by the law excuses from the performance.

Impotence; Impossibility.

PROPERTY PROPTER. See "Property Propter Impotentiam."

See Property propter impotentiam .

To place in a pound goods or cattle distrained or estray. 3 Bl. Comm. 12.

In this paragraph, the term “impoundment” or “impounding” means the seizing and taking into custody of a commercial motor vehicle or the immobilizing of a commercial motor vehicle

In this paragraph, the term “impoundment” or “impounding” means the seizing and taking into custody of a commercial motor vehicle or the immobilizing of a commercial motor vehicle

“impoundment resolution” means a resolution of the House of Representatives or the Senate which only expresses its disapproval of a proposed deferral of budget authority set forth

The state of being incapable of prescription. A property which is held in trust is imprescriptible, that is, the trustee cannot acquire a title to it by prescription; nor can the b

Rights to which no claim can be acquired by prescription.

An image fixed on the mind; a belief. See 22 U. S. 483, 6 L. Ed. 140.

A power possessed by the English crown of taking persons or property to aid in the defense of the country, with or without the consent of the persons concerned. It is usually exerc

Extraordinary and unforeseen occasions arise, however, beyond all doubt, in cases of extreme necessity in time of war or of immediate and impending public danger, in which private

Money paid for impressment.

Without price.

A government license to publish a book.

To impress; to print.

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

In some of the ancient English statutes, this word is used to signify a printing office, the art of printing, a print or impression. an instrument, especially in wills, item being

Firstly; principally; first.

To deprive one of his liberty without his consent See 29 Ind. App. 451, 63 N. E. 328.

the term “imprisoned” means an individual is confined in or otherwise restricted to a jail-type institution, a half-way house, a treatment facility, or another institution, on a fu

“imprisonment” means a penalty imposed by a court under which the individual is confined to an institution;

Can it be doubted but the legislatures of the States, so far as relates to their own process, have a right to abolish imprisonment for debt altogether, and that such law might exte

imprisonment for life without possibility of parole.'

Followers or adherents.

To disallow; to reject.

In Scotch law. An act by which falsehood and forgery are proved. Ersk. Inst. 4. 119; Stair, Inst. 4. 20; Bell,, Diet.

Not suitable; unfit; not suited to the character, time, and place. Chadbourne V. Newcastle, 48 N. H. 196.

A feud which carried no military service.

Derivative feuds, such, for instance, as those that were originally bartered and sold to the feudatory for a price, or were held upon base or less honorable services, or upon a ren

These were derivative feuds; as, for instance, those that were originally bartered and sold to the feudatory for a price, or were beld upon base or less honorable services, or upon

Undue influence, (q. vt) And see Millican v. Millican, 24 Tex. 446.

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “improperly claimed ERTC wages” means, with respect to an assessment attributable to a credit claimed under this section, the wages with re

the term “improper means”— (A) includes theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other

Navigation of a vessel unfit to be navigated with safety to herself or her cargo. See 104 Fed. (U. S.) 145.

The term “improper payment”— (A) means any payment that should not have been made or that was made in an incorrect amount, including an overpayment or underpayment, under a statuto

With respect to any registered public accounting firm or associated person, for purposes of this section, the term “improper professional conduct” means— (1) intentional or knowing

Entries made subsequent to the plaintiffs' grant, whatever might be the impression under which they were made, could not possibly affect the title, and were therefore clearly inadm

A lay rector.

Tithes in the hands of a lay owner.

In ecclesiastical law. The act of employing the revenues of a church living to one's own use. It is also a parsonage or ecclesiastical living in the hands of a layman, or which des

TO impeach as false or forged; to cultivate. 4 Cow. (N. Y.) 190. In Scotch Law. To improve a lease means to grant a lease of unusual duration to encourage a tenant, when the soil i

Improved land is such as has been reclaimed, is used for the purpose of husbandry, and is cultivated as such, whether the appropriation is for tillage, meadow or pasture, "Improve"

Within the Barataria Preserve Unit, the owner or owners of improved property used for noncommercial residential purposes on a year-round basis may, as a condition of the acquisitio

the term “improved real estate” means real estate upon which a building is located; / the term “improved real estate” means real estate upon which a building is located;

As used in this subchapter, “improved residential property” means a single-family year-round dwelling, the construction of which began before March 1, 1975, and which serves as the

In this section, the term “improvement” includes rehabilitation of a housing unit and major maintenance or repair work to be accomplished concurrently with an improvement project.

An improvement patent, like the basic patent to which it relates, is a legalized monopoly for a limited period.

all buildings, structures, fixtures, and fences erected upon or affixed to the land.

Lack of care, prudence and foresight. See 10 Mont. 228, 25 Pac. 105.

as used in a statute excluding one found incompetent to execute the duties of an administrator by reason of improvidence, means that want of care and foresight in the management of