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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 TOTO

In the whole; wholly; completely ; as the award is void in toto.In toto et pars continetur. In thewhole the part also is contained. Dig. 50, 17, 113.In traditionibns scriptorum, non quod

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.

INCORPORATE

1. To create a corporation ; to confer a corporate franchise upondeterminate persons.2. To declare that another document shall be taken as part of the document iuwhich the declaration is made as

ICENI

The ancient name for the people of Sutfolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, andHuntingdonshire, in England.

IDONEUS

Lat. In the civil and common law. Sufficient; competent; fit or proper;responsible; unimpeachable. Ido- ncus homo, a responsible or solvent person; a goodand lawful man. Sufficient; adequate ; satisfactory. Idonea cautio, sufficient

IMITATION

The making of one thingIn the similitude or likeness of another; as, counterfeit coin is said to be made “in imitation”of the genuine. An imitation of a trade-mark is that which so

IMPERIUM

The right to command, which includes the right to employ the force ofthe state to enforce the laws. This is one of the principal attributes of the power of theexecutive. 1 Toullier,

IMPORTS

Importations; goods or other property imported or brought into the countryfrom a foreign country.

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