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Not material, essential, or necessary; not important or pertinent; not decisive.
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Not material, essential, or necessary; not important or pertinent; not decisive.
To have license to settle a litigation amicably; to obtain delay for adjustment.
Lit. Impersonality. A mode of expression where no reference ismade to any person, such as the expression “ut dieit ur,” (as is said.) Co. Litt. 3526.Impersonalitas non concludit nec ligat. Co. Litt.
Pressing solicitation; urgent request; application for a claim or favorwhich is urged with troublesome frequency or pertinacity. Webster.
The act of putting or confining a man in prison ; the restraint of a man’s personal liberty; coercion exercised upon a person to prevent the free exercise of his powers of
As used in legal phrases, this word means attributed vicariously; that is,an act, fac-f, or quality is said to be “imputed” to a person when it is ascribed orcharged to him, not
A term applied to the indorsement of a bill or note where it consistsmerely of the indorser’s name, without restriction to any particular Indorsee. 2 Steph.Comm. 104.
Immediately; without any interval or intermission. Calvin.Sometimes written as one word “inconti- nenti.”In contractibns, benigna; in testamen- tis, benignior; in restitutionibus, benignissimainterpretatio facienda est.Co. Litt. 112. In contracts, tbe interpretation is to
In issue. De materia in cxitu, of the matter in issue. 12 Mod. 372.In expositione instrumentorum, mala grammatica, quod fieri potest, vitanda est. Inthe construction of instruments, bad grammar is to be
Relating to the whole or full amount; as a receipt in full. Complete; giving all details. Bard v. Wood, 3 Mete. (Mass.) 75.
To excite a prejudice.
In the place of a parent; instead of a parent; charged, factitiously,with a parent’s rights, duties, andresponsibilities. Wetherby v. Dixon, 19 Yes. 412; Rrinkerhoff v. Merselis, 24 N. J. Daw,GS3; Capek v.
In hatred of a despoiler, robber, or wrong-doer. TheSaratoga, 1 Gall. 174, Fed. Cas. No. 12,355; Arthur v. The Cassius. 2 Story, 99, Fed.Cas. No. 504. 1 Greenl. Ev.
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,
Dealing with the same or a kindred subject-matter.
In the passage over; on tbe voyage over. See Sir William Scott 3 C. Rob. Adm. 141.
To make a building serve ns a castle. Jacob.
To shut up. “To inclose a jury,” in Scotch practice, is to shut them up in a room by themselves. Bell. See Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Harris, 2S Kau. 210; Campbell v.Gilbert,
1. The act or process of forming or creating a corporation; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act
Lat That is. Commonly abbreviated “i. e.”Id perfectum est quod ez omnibus suia partibus constat. That is perfect whichconsists of all its parts. 9 Coke, 9.Id possumus quod de jure possumus.Lane, 110.
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