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See EMBRACERY.

For the meaning of this phrase inthe constitution of the United States, see 2 Story, Const.

As used in various legal compound terms, this word means defective orincomplete; wanting in some legal or formal requisite; wanting in legal sanction oreffectiveness; as in speaking of imperfect “obligations,” “ownership,” “rights,”

Intendment or inference, as distinguished from the actual expressionof a thing in words. In a will, an estate may pass by mere implication, without anyexpress words to direct its course. 2 Bl.

Lat. Let it be printed. A license or allowance, granted by the constitutedauthorities, giving permission to print and publish a book. This allowance wasformerly necessary, in England, before any book could lawfully

As to “irresistible” or “uncontrollable” impulse, see INSANITY.Impunitas continuum affectum tribuit delinquendi. 4 Coke, 45. Impunity confirmsthe disposition to commit crime.Impunities semper ad deteriora invi- tat. 5 Coke, 109. Impunity always invites

In the article of death; at the point of death. Jackson v. Vredenbergh, 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 159.In atrocioribus delictis punitnr affec- tus licet non sequatur effectus. 2 Rolle It. 82. Inmore

In consideration or contemplation of law; in abeyance. Dyer, 1026.

In a court of equity, as distinguished from a court of law; in thepurview, consideration, or contemplation of equity; according to the doctrines of equity.

In the character or manner of a pauper. Describes permissiongiven to a poor person to sue without liability for costs.

In the preliminaries. A term in Scotch practice, applied to thepreliminary examination of a witness as to the following points: Whether he knows theparties, or bears ill will to either of them,

On or at the threshold; at the very beginning; preliminarily.

In the clouds; in abeyance; in custody of law. In mibibus, in marc, interra, vel in custodiO legis, iu the air, sea. or earth, or in the custody of the law. Tayl.Gloss.

In mining law, rock or mineralized matter is “in place” when remaining asnature placed it, that is, unsevered from the circumjacent rock, or which is fixed solidand immovable in the form of

In the nature of things; in the realm of actuality; in existence.In a dilatory plea, an allegation that the plaintiff is not in rerum natura is equivalent toaverring that the person named

Lat. In witness; In evidence whereof.

An uninclosed common, marked out, however, by boundaries.

Lat. Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law.Incivile est, nisi tota lege perspecta, una aliqua particula ejus proposita, ju- dicarc,vel respondere. It is improper, without looking at the whole of

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

Lat. In the same place; in the same book ; on the same page, etc. Abbreviatedto “ibid.” or “ib.”