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Identity Theft

Deliberately obtaining and taking away someone else’s personal information for criminal intentions.

INTERESTED PERSON

the term given to a concerned person or a person with a share in something.

IMBECILE

the term used for a person with mental retardation and the IQ of 25 to 50.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF

The expression that makes it clear that a person signing a legal document is signing it as a witness. The initial words of the concluding clause in deeds: “In witness whereof the

INDIRECT EVIDENCE

This term applies to circumstantial evidence and facts that don’t really prove something but also don’t support the incontrovertible evidence.

INSURANCE MARINE

This si the insurance that pays for any losses to a ship or its cargo during voyages.

IBID

a Latin word that means the same.

INLAND WATERS

the term that describes any body of water that is not connected the ocean directly.

INFORMAL PROCEEDINGS

a term applied to admitting a will to probate with none of the formalities being completed.

IMMORAL CONSIDERATION

a contract that is in contrary to public morals and is a consideration that the public will hold to be indecent.

INTRALIMINAL

the name applied to a mining right to minerals that lie perpendicular to the borders of the claim.

INCAPACITY TOTAL

This term applies to the complete inability to work at any sort of job.

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