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IN TRANSITU

In transit; on the way or passage; while passing from one person or place to another. 2 Kent. Comm. 510-552; More v. Lott, 13 Nev. 383; Amory MI’g. Co. v. Gulf, etc..

INCARCERATION

Imprisonment; confinement in a jail or penitentiary. This term isseldom used in law, though found occasionally in statutes, (Rev. St. Okl. 1903,

INCLAUSA

In old records. A home close or inclosure near the house. Paroch. Autiip 31; Cowell.

INCOPOLITUS

A proctor or vicar. Incorporalia bello non adquirnntur.Incorporeal tilings are not acquired by war. 0 Maule & S. 104.

IBIDEM

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

IDIOTA

In the civil law. An unlearned, illiterate, or simple person. Calvin. A privateman; one not in office. In common law. An idiot or fool.

ILLEGAL

Not authorized by law; Illicit ; unlawful; contrary to law.Sometimes this term means merely that which lacks authority of or support from law;but more frequently it imports a violation. Etymo- logicaily, the

IMBASING OF MONEY

The act of mixing the specie with an alloy below the standard of sterling. 1 Hale, P. C. 102.

IMPEDITOR

In old English law. A disturber in the action of quare impedit. St. Marlb.

IMPOUND

To shut up stray animals or distrained goods in a pound. Thomas v.Harries, 1 Man. & G. 703; Goodsell v. Dunning, 34 Conn. 257; Howard v. Bartlett, 70 Vt.314. 40 Atl. 825.

IMPROVE

In Scotch law. To disprove ; to invalidate or impeach; to prove false orforged. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 4, p. 102.To improve a lease means to grant a lease of unusual duration

IN CASU PROVISO

In a (or the) case provided. In tali casu editum et provisum, insuch case made and provided. Townsh. PI. 104, 105.

IN DIEM

For a day; for the space of a day. Calvin.In disjtinctivis sufficit alteram partem esse vcram. In disjunctives it is sufficient thateither part be true. Where a condition is in tbe disjunctive,

IN FACIENDO

In doing; in feasance; in the performance of an act. 2 Story, Eq. Jur.

IN GENERE

In kind; in the same yen us or class; the same in quantity and quality,but not individually the same. Iu the Roman law, things which may be given or restoredin yenere are

IN JUDGMENT

In a court of justice; in a seat of judgment. Lord Hale is called “oneof the greatest and best men who ever sat in judgment” 1 East 306.In judiciis, minori setati succurritur.In

IN MEDIO

Intermediate. A term applied, in Scotch practice, to a fund held between parties litigant In mercibus illicitis non sit commer- cium. There should be no commerce in illicit orprohibited goods. 3 Kent,

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