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INCENDIARY Definition & Legal Meaning

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A house-burner; one guilty of arson; one who maliciously and willfullysets another person’s building on fire.Incendinm sere alieno non exuit debitor em. Cod. 4, 2, 11. A fire does not release a debtor from his debt.

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