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ILLEVIABLE

Not leviable; that cannot or ought not to be levied. Cowell.

IMBROCUS

A brook, gutter, or water- passage. Cowell.

IMPANEL

In English practice. Toimpanel a jury signifies the entering by the sheriff upon a piece of parchment, termed a”panel,” the names of the jurors who have been summoned to appear in court

IMPERITIA

Lat. Unskillfulness; want of skill.Imperitia culpa! adnumeratur. Want of skill is reckoned as culpa; that is, as blamableconduct or neglect. Dig. 50, 17, 132.Imperitia est maxima mechanicorum poena. Unskillfulness is the greatest

IMPORTATION

The act of bringing goods and merchandise into a country from a foreign country.

IMPRIMERE

To press upon; to impress or press; to imprint or print.

IMPUNITY

Exemption or protection from penalty or punishment. Dillon v. Rogers,30 Tex. 153.

IN BANCO

In bank; in the bench. A term applied to proceedings in the court inbank, as distinguished from proceedings at nisi prius. Also, in the English court of common bench.

IN CONSIDER ATIONE PREMISSORUM

In consideration of the premises. 1 Strange, 535.In consimili casu, consimile debet esse remedium. Hardr. 05. In similar cases theremedy should be similar.

IN ESSE

In being. Actually existing. Distinguished from in posse, which means “thatwhich is not, but may be.” A child before birth is in posse; after birth, in esse.

IN FORO

In a (or the) forum, court, or tribunal.

IN INITIO

In or at the beginning. In initio litis, at the beginning, or in the first stageof the suit. Bract, fol. 400.

IN NULLIUS BONIS

Among the goods or property of no person ; belonging to noperson, as treasure-trove and wreck were anciently considered.

IN SCRINIO JUDICIS

In the writing- case of the judge; among the judge’s papers.”That is a thing that rests in serinio judieis, and does not appear iu the body of thedecree.” Ilardr. 51.

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.

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