Law Dictionary
Definitions from our source dictionaries — each term links to a combined page showing every source. The full list of source dictionaries is in the sidebar.
Produce; profit thereof.
In marine policy. Not projecting over the rail of the vessel. 46 Jones & S. (N. Y.) 175, 181, 85 N. Y. 478. INBORH (Saxon.) In old English law. A security, pledge, or hypotheca, co
Among the goods.
Among the goods of the deceased.
In Saxon law. A security, pledge or hypotheca, consisting of the chattels of a person unable to obtain a personal "borg," or surety.
An uninclosed common with marked boundaries. Black.
The term “inbound telemarketing” means the marketing of property, goods, or services by telephone to a customer or potential customer who initiated the call.
1. 1. In old English law. To take a ing; to inventory.
The term “in bulk” refers to seed when loose either in vehicles of transportation or in storage, and not to seed in bags or other containers.
In private; in chambers. IN CAPITA (Lat.) To or by the heads or polls. Thus, where persons succeed to estates in capita, they take each an equal share. So, where a challenge to a j
Except as provided in subparagraph (E), the term “incandescent lamp” means a lamp in which light is produced by a filament heated to incandescence by an electric current, including
The term “incandescent reflector lamp” means a lamp described in subparagraph (C)(ii).
An ecclesiastical law, in contradistinction to a secular law (lex). 1 Kaufm. Mackeld. Civ. Law, p. 81, § 93.
Referring to a person disqualified from administering upon an estate, is not limited to mere mental or physical incapacity; includes the idea of unfitness, BBBuitableness.i Compare
The term “incapable of consenting” means the person is— (A) incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct at issue; or (B) physically incapable of declining participation in, o
- Incapacitydefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)Bouvier (1839)
The want of a quality legally to do, give, transmit, or receive something. See ^'Capacity."
By heads; per capita.
In chief. See Tenure in capite .
In this section, the term "incarcerated individual" means a male or female offender who is— (1) 35 years of age or younger; and (2) incarcerated in a State prison, includ
The term "incarcerated person" means any individual incarcerated in a Federal or State correctional institution who is charged with or convicted of any criminal offense.
Imprisonment; confinement in a jail or penitentiary. This term is seldom used in law, though found occasionally in statutes, (Rev. St. Okl. 1903, § 2068.) When so used, it appears
To make a building serve as a castle. Jacob.
In a similar case.
In a case of extreme necessity all is common property.
Hale, P. C. 54. In cases of extreme necessity, everything is in common.
In the case provided.
In the cause, as distinguished from in initialibus (q.v.). A term in Scotch practice. 1 Brown, (5h. 252.
or ENCAUSTUM (Lat.) Ink; a fluid anciently used for writing, of which, as appears from the following passage of Bracton, there were two kinds, — the black (incaustum nigrum), and t
Ink. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 27, § 5.
An act done carelessly is held as not done.
A thing done unwarily (or unadvisedly) wlll be taken as not done. Dig. 28, 4, 1.
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
See Arson. rNCERTA. See Cebtum. HfCEST.s Illicit intercourse between persons within those degrees of consanguinity as to which marriage is forbidden by law.' There may be a certain
One committing or attempting arson or the burning of a building.
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
A fire does not exonerate a debtor from a debt.
Cod. 4, 2, 11. A fire does not release a debtor from his debt
The term “incentive auction” means a system of competitive bidding under subparagraph (G) of section 309(j)(8) of this title , as added by section 6402.
The term "incentive fees" means any amounts payable to a landlord for meeting or exceeding performance metrics as specified in a contract with the Department of Defense.
the term “incentive payments” means direct monetary compensation made by a United States supplier of defense articles or defense services or by any employee, agent or subcontractor
The term "incentive practice" means a practice or set of practices approved by the Secretary that, when implemented and maintained on eligible land, address 1 or more pri
For purposes of this part, the term “incentive stock option” means an option granted to an individual for any reason connected with his employment by a corporation, if granted by t
The term “incentive tax rate” means the aggregate rate of tax imposed by section 4081 determined with regard to section 4081(a)(2)(D).
The commencement; the beginning. In making a will, for example, the writing is its inception. 3 Coke, 31b; Plowd. 343.
the act of Virginia of 1779, having allowed 400 acres of land to those who had made a settlement before the first of January 1778, and having founded that allowance on the charge a
The homestead law in terms subjects unsurveyed public lands, if agricultural and unappropriated, to settlement by persons having the requisite qualifications and intending to compl
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.
Uncertain things are held for nothing. Dav. In. K. B. 33.
Things uncertain are held for nothing. Dav. 33.
An uncertain quantity vitiates the act. 1 Bolle, 465.
(Lat.) Of uncertain time or date. A title given to some English statutes enacted between Magna Charta and the reign of Edward III.; their period not being ascertained. 2 Reeves' Hi
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
- Incestdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)Bouvier (1839)
The carnal copulation of a man and a woman related to each other in any of the degrees within which marriage is prohibited by law. Bish. Mar. & Div. 214- 221. INCH (Lat. uncia). A
Incest committed by a married person.
Bastardy in the commission of, or resulting from, incest. See Bastardy .
A measure of length, containing one-twelfth part of a foot; originally supposed equal to three barleycorns. —Inch of candle. A mode of sale at one time in use among merchants. A no
In English law. A 16 Vict. c. 86, § 21. Obsolete. See Jud. Acts, 1873, 1875. COMMISSION TO TAKE DEPOSI-
To prove that an item in an account before the court as complete, which is inserted to the debit of the person falsifying, should have been omitted. When a bill to open an account
To give, grant, or assure by written instrument.— Black.
Principal; primary; directly obtained. A term applied to the evidence obtained from a witness upon his examination in court by the party producing him, in relation to the matter in
- Inchoatedefined inBallentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)Anderson (1889)Stimson (1881)
Imperfect; incipient not completely formed.
the defendant's, if any, was but an inchoate and equitable title, which might avail in a court of chancery, but it could not avail the defendant in action of ejectment
See Inchoate right of dower .
Instruments which the law requires to be registered or recorded are said to be "inchoate" prior to registration, iu that they are then good only between the parties and privies and
The statute creates no estate in the wife during her husband's lifetime, but merely an inchoate and contingent interest, which depends upon her survivorship and is extinguished if
An inchoate lien is not enough to defeat the priority [of the United States]. Unless the law of Florida effected, at least as early as the date of insolvency, either a transfer of
By the common law a party entitled to a share of a thing forfeited, acquires by the seizure an inchoate right, which is consummated by a decree of condemnation, and when so consumm
Such an interest of a wife in her husband’s land as may be allowed by the law in force at his death. See 25 Minn. 462.
inchoate rights such as those of Cerre were of imperfect obligation and affected only the conscience of the new sovereign. They were not of such a nature (until that sovereign gave
the right of the collector to forfeitures in rem, attached on the seizure, but that the right must be defined and consummated by the judgment or decree
The effect of these provisions was to invest the state in praesenti with an inchoate title to those lands falling within the description of the act, to be perfected as of the date
The right of property then is protected and secured by the treaty; and no principle is better settled in this country, than that an inchoate title to lands is property. Independent
A mode of sale at one time in use among merchants. A notice is first given upon the exchange, or other public place, as to the time of sale. The goods to be sold are divided into l
The unit for the measurement of a volume of water or of hydraulic power, being the quantity of water which, under a given constant head or pressure, will escape through an orifice
the limits of the state's legislative jurisdiction to tax, prescribed by the Fourteenth Amendment, are to be ascertained by reference to the incidence of the tax upon its objects r
- incidentdefined inCase LawU.S. CodeCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Bouvier (1839)
We use the word incident as a legal term, meaning something appertaining to and necessarily depending upon another, which is termed the principal.
the term “incidental” means related to and relatively minor by comparison.
Every state police statute necessarily will affect interstate commerce in some degree, but such a statute does not run counter to the grant of Congressional power merely because it
a state statute enacted for admissible state purposes and which affects interstate commerce only incidentally and remotely is not a prohibited state regulation in the sense of that
The term “incidental expenses” includes legal, accounting, actuarial, and trustee expenses.
For purposes of this section, the term “incidental interLATA services” means the interLATA provision by a Bell operating company or its affiliate— (1) (A) of audio programming, vid
One which is directly and immediately appropriate to the execution of the specific power granted. See 71 Minn. 413, 70 Am. St. Rep. 334, 74 N. W. 160.
The term “incidental property” means, with respect to a debtor's principal residence— (A) property commonly conveyed with a principal residence in the area where the real property
Incidental taking.—The term "incidental taking" means any take of a southern sea otter that is incidental to, and not the purpose of, the carrying out of an otherwise law
To the extent of the amount receivable by all other beneficiaries as insurance under policies on the life of the decedent with respect to which the decedent possessed at his death
the terms "qualified disaster", "qualified disaster area", and "incident period" have the meaning given such terms under section 72(t)(11), and / the
The term "incident response" means a government or private sector activity that detects, mitigates, or recovers from a cyber attack or cyber campaign of significant conse
the term “incident response premium pay” means pay to which a covered employee is entitled under subsection (c);
incidents of ownership possessed by the decedent at his death as manager of the community.
the Government is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries to servicemen where the injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service
To happen.
Lat. In the civil law. A trench. A place sunk by the side of a stream, so called because it is cut (incidatur) into or through the stone or earth. Dig. 43, 21, 1, 5. The term seems
Burning to ashes; destruction of a substance by fire, as, the corpse of a murdered person.
The term “incineration vessel” means any vessel which carries hazardous substances for the purpose of incineration of such substances, so long as such substances or residues of suc
One of the objects of the Act creating the Federal Trade Commission was to prevent potential injury by stopping unfair methods of competition in their incipiency.
the Federal Trade Commission Act was designed to supplement and bolster the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act... to stop in their incipiency acts and practices which, when full blown
- Incipiturdefined inBallentine's (1916)Black's (1910)Kinney (1893)Black's (1891)Stimson (1881)Bouvier (1839)
It is begun.
In medical jurisprudence. A cut or incision on a human body; a wound made by a cutting instrument, such as a razor. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 693; Whart. & S. Med. Jur. § 808.
To arouse; stir up; instigate; set in motion; as, to "incite" a riot. Also, generally, in criminal law to instigate, persuade or move another to commit a crime; in this sense nearl