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In an equal cause. In a cause where the parties on each side have equal rights.In pari causa possessor potior haberi debet. In an equal cause he who has thepossession should be

L. Fr. In taking. A term applied to such incorporeal hereditaments as aparty entitled to them was to take for himself; such as common. 2 Steph. Comm. 23; 3 Bl. Comm. 15.In

Specific; specifically. Thus, to decree performance in specie is to decree specific performance.In kind; in the same or like form. A tiling is said to exist in spccic when it retains itsexistence

Insufficient; disproportionate ; lacking in effectiveness or iu conformityto a prescribed standard or measure.

Imperfect; unfinished; begun, but not completed; as a contract not executed by all the parties.

The return in money from one’s business, labor, or capital invested; gains,profit, or private revenue. Braun’s Appeal, 105 Pa. 415; People v. Davenport, 30 llun (N.Y.) 177; In re Slocum, 109 N.

An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another. See ENCROACHMENT.

Lat Therefore. Calvin.

Lat. Ignorance; want of knowledge. Distinguished from mistake,(error,) or wrong conception. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In medical jurisprudence. An image or Impression in the mind, excited bysome external object addressing itself to one or more of the senses, but which, insteadof corresponding with the renllty, is perverted,

Lat. In the civil law. To mix or mingle with; to meddle with; to join with. Calvin.

In old practice. One who hinders; an impedient. The defendant ordeforciant in a fine was sometimes so called. Cowell; Blount.

Impairing or prejudicing. Jacob.

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

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 another’s land 2 Steph. Comm. 20.

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

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,

Actual, real; as distinguished from implied or inferred. Resulting from theacts of parties, instead of from the act or intendment of law.

In a large quantity or sum; without division or particulars; by wholesale.Green v. Taylor, 10 Fed. Cas. No. 1,120.At large; not annexed to or dependent upon another thing. Common in gross is