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INCORRIGIBLE

This is a term that means to be unmanageable or uncontrollable.

INCENTIVE COMPENSATION

This term applies to payments in excess of agreed wages, a bonus and profit sharing as an incentive for a good performance.

INVESTMENT

a term where a capital is committed to make an income from it.

ISSUE AT LAW

the term applied to the matter of controversy or the differing opinion of a law.

INDIRECT SOLICITATION

a situation that occurs when an attorney tries to contact a person who has had an accident. See ambulance chasing.

INDIVISIBLE CONTRACT

a contract where it needs to be fulfilled completely before it is finished. There are no parts it can be divided into.

INVESTIGATION

A term that means to examine and to look at carefully, discover the factor make a legal inquiry. TLD Example: Police conducted a thorough investigation of the accusations of wrongdoing made against the

INSURANCE LIABILITY

the insurance policy that pays for injuries or damages to another person or other person’s property.

INTERSTATE LAW

This si the name given to the principles and rules that need to be considered in suits that are between people from different countries.

IMPEACHMENT OF A VERDICT

to question the validity of a verdict that is based on doubts that it was arrived at in the proper manner.

INTERESTED PERSON

the term given to a concerned person or a person with a share in something.

IMBECILE

the term used for a person with mental retardation and the IQ of 25 to 50.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF

The expression that makes it clear that a person signing a legal document is signing it as a witness. The initial words of the concluding clause in deeds: “In witness whereof the

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