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IMPOTENCE

In medical Jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagatingthe species. Properly used of the male; but it has also been used synonymously with”sterility.” Grif’feth v. Griff- eth, 102 111. 30S, 44 N.

IMPROPRIATE RECTOR

In ecclesiastical law. Commonly signifies a lay rector asopposed to a spiritual rector; just as impropriate tithes are tithes in the hands of a layowner, as opposed to appropriate tithes, which are

IN AQUALI JURE

In equal right; on an equality in point of right.In sequali jure melior est conditio possidentis. In Ta case of] equal right thecondition of the party in i>ossession is the better. Plowd.

IN CAPITA

To the heads; by beads or polls. Persons succeed to an inheritance incapita when they individually take equal shares. So challenges to individual jurors arechallenges in capita, as distinguished from challenges to

IN FUTURO

In future; at a future time; the opposite of in prwsenti. 2 Bl. Comm.166, 175

IN IPSIS FAUCIBUS

In thevery throat or entrance. In ipsis faueibus of a port, actually entering a port 1 C. Rob. Adm. 233, 234.

IN MALAM PARTEM

In a bad sense, so as to wear an evil appearance.In maleficiis voluntas sxicctatur, non exitus. In evil deeds regard must be had to the intention, and not to the result. Dig.

IN PLENO LTJMINE

In public; in common knowledge; in the light of day.In poenalibus cansis benignius inter- pretandum est. In penal causes or cases, themore favorable Interpretation should be adopted. Dig. 50. 17, (197), 155,

IN TRAJECTU

In the passage over; on tbe voyage over. See Sir William Scott 3 C. Rob. Adm. 141.

INCAPACITY

Want of capacity; want of power or ability to take or dispose; want oflegal ability to act. Ellicott v. Ellieott, 90 Md. 321, 45 Atl. 183, 48 L. R. A. 58: Drews’Appeal.

INCIVISM

Unfriendliness to the state or government of which one is a citizen.

INCONVENIENCE

In the rule that statutes should be so construed as to avoid”inconvenience,” this means, as applied to the public, the sacrifice or jeoparding ofimportant public interests or hampering the legitimate activities of

I O U

A memorandum of debt, consisting of these letters, (“I owe you,”) a sum ofmoney, and the debtor’s signature, is termed an “I O U.” Kinney v. Flynn, 2 R. I. 329.

IDIOT

A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whomthe law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any. Shelf. Lun. 2. See INSANITY.

ILLATA ET INVECTA

Lat. Things brought into the house for use by the tenant wereso called, and were liable to the jus liypothccce of Roman law, just as they are to thelandlord’s right of distress

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