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I. I. From this day forth.
the term “in any 1 year period” has the meaning given to the term “in any one-year period” in section 666.
is also the most salient feature of the provision in which it occurs.
a continuous period that commences no earlier than twelve months before the commission of the offense or that ends no later than twelve months after the commission of the offense.
In open daylight.
- In Apicibus Jurisdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)
Among the subtleties or extreme doctrines of the law. 1 Kames, Eq. 190. See "Apex Juris."
In the discretion of another.
- In Arbitrium Judicisdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)
In the discretion of the court. IN ARCTA ET SALVA CUSTODIA (Law Lat.) In close and safe custody. 3 Bl. Comm. 415.
In close and safe custody.
At the moment.
- In Articulo Mortisdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)
In the article of death; at the point of death. 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 159. IN ATROCIORIBUS DELICTIS PUNITUR affectus licet non sequatur effectus. In more atrocious crimes, the intent is
2 Rolle R. 82. In more atrocious crimes the intent is punished, though an effect does not follow.
In the more atrocious crimes the attempt is punished although the result does not follow.
An intestate. Y and OUTPENY. Inold En- A customary payment of a penny ng into and going out of a tenancy, u de tenura, el pro inyressu.) Spel-
“Inaugural Committee” means the committee appointed by the President-elect to be in charge of the Presidential inaugural ceremony and functions and activities connected with the ce
“inaugural period” means the period that includes the day on which the Presidential inaugural ceremony is held, the 5 calendar days immediately preceding that day, and the 4 calend
- Inaugurationdefined inCyclopedic (1922)Ballentine's (1916)Bouvier (1914)Black's (1910)Black's (1891)Anderson (1889)Bouvier (1839)
A word applied by the Romans to the ceremony of dedicating a temple, or raising a man to the priesthood, after the augurs had been consulted. It was afterwards applied to the insta
March 4th, when the President of the United States is inaugurated.
(Law Fr.) In or on another's land. Dyer, 36b (Fr. ed.) IN AUTRE DROIT (Law Fr.) In another's right; as representing another. An executor, administrator, or trustee sues in autre dr
In the right of another.
Inthesame state or condition. Calvin.
In bank.
With all the judges of the court sitting.
Held to include a child in utero. See 55 Ohio St. 478, 45 N. E. 720.
I. I. In old English law. To plant sowing.
Without restriction. Applied to indorsements on promissory notes where no indorsee is named. IN BONIS (Lat.) Among the goods or property; in actual possession. Inst. 4. 2. 2; Tayl.
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