IDIOCY
See INSANITY.
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See INSANITY.
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
A Mohammedan prince having supreme spiritual as well astemporal power; a regular priest of the mosque.
In the civil law. Property which, from its nature, destination, or theobject to which it is applied, cannot move itself, or be removed.Immovable things are. in general, such as cannot either move
Lat. In the civil law. Expenses ; outlays. Mackeld. Rom. Law,
Sued or prosecuted; used particularly in the titles of causes wherethere are several defendants; as “A. B., impleaded with C. D.”
A “case of the first impression” is one without a precedent; onepresenting a wholly new state of facts: one involving a question never beforedetermined.
A judgment, decree, rule, Injunction, etc., when given or renderedwithout adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as toall the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a mistaken assumption or
At the pleasure of the judge.
Shared in respect to title, use, or enjoyment, without apportionmentor division into individual parts; held by several for the equal advantage, use. or enjoymentof all. See Ilewit v. Jewell, 59 Iowa, 37,
In double. Dumna in du- plo, double damages. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 10,
In fee. Bract, fol. 207; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 04,
In the same terms. 9 East, 487.
In the same kind, class, or genus. A loan is returned “in kind” when notthe identical article, but one corresponding and equivalent to it, is given to the lender.See IN GENEUE.
Property owned by religious societies was said to be held in?mortua maim, or in mortmain, since religious men were civiliter mortui. 1 Bl. Comm.479; Tayl. Gloss.
In the worst part; on the worst side. Latch, 159, 160.
In the affair; in the matter of. This is the usual method of entitling a judicial proceeding in which there are not adversary parties, but merely some res concerning which judicial action
In terms of determination; exactly in point. 11 Coke, 406. In express or determinateterms. 1 Leon. 93.
In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell.
Lat. It is begun; it begins. In old practice, when the pleadings in anaction at law, instead of being recited at large on the Issue-roll, were set out merely bytheir commencements, this