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IMPOTENTIA M, PROPERTY PROPTER

A qualified property, which may subsist inanimals fcrw natural on account of their inability, as where hawks, herons, or otherbirds build in a person’s trees, or conies, etc., make their nests or

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 FACTO

In fact; in deed. In facto dicit, in fact says. 1 Salk. 22, pi. 1.In facto quod se habet ad bonum et malum, magis de bono quam de malo lexintendit. In an

IN MITIORI SENSU

In the milder sense; in the less aggravated acceptation. Inactions of slander, it was formerly the rule that, if the words alleged would admit of twoconstructions, they should be taken in the

IN PARI MATERIA

Upon the same matter or subject. Statutes in pari materia are toconstrued together. United Society v. Eagle Bank, 7 Conn. 457; State v. Ger- hardt, 145Ind. 439, 44 N. E. 409, 33

IN STIRPES

In the law of Intestate succession. According to the roots or stocks; byrepresentation; as distinguished from succession per capita. See IJEB STIRPES; PER CAPITA.

INADVERTENCE

Heedlessness; lack of attention; failure of a person to pay carefuland prudent attention to the progress of a negotiation or a proceeding in court bywhich his rights may be affected. Used chiefly

INCIDERE

Lat In the civil and old J English law. To fall into. Calvin.To fall out; to happen; to come to pass. Calvin.To fall upon or under; to become subject or liable to.

INCOMMUTABLE

Not capable of or entitled to be commuted. See COMMUTATION.

INCULPATORY

In the law of evidence. Going or tending to establish guilt; intendedto establish guilt; criminative. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 251, 252.

IDEO CONSIDER ATUM EST

Lat. Therefore it is considered. These were the words used at the beginning of the entry ofjudgment in an action, when the forms were in I/atin. They are also used as a

IGNORATIO ELENCHI

Lat. A term of logic, sometimes applied to pleadings and toarguments on appeal, which signifies a mistake of the question, that is, the mistake ofone who, failing to discern the real question

ILLUSORT

Deceiving by false appearances; nominal, as distinguished from substantial.

IMMITTERE

Lat. In the civil law. To put or let into, as a beam into a wall. Calvin; Dig. 50, 17, 242, 1.In old English law. To put cattle or

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