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IN EXTREMIS

Iu extremity; in the last extremity; in the last illness. 2 Bl. Comm.375, 500; Prince v. llazleton, 20 Johus. (N. Y.) 502, 11 Am. Dec. 307. A yens inextremis, being in extremity.

IN FULL LIFE

Continuing in both physical and civil existence; that is, neither actuallydead nor civiliter mortuus.

IN INVITUM

Against an unwilling party; against one not assenting. A term appliedto proceedings against an adverse party, to which he does not consent.

IN OMNIBUS

In all things; on all points. “A case parallel in omnibus.” 10 Mod. 104.In omnibus contractibus, sive nomi- natis sive innominatis, permutatio con- tinetur.In all contracts, whether nominate or innominate, an exchange

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

INCIVILE

Lat. Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law.Incivile est, nisi tota lege perspecta, una aliqua particula ejus proposita, ju- dicarc,vel respondere. It is improper, without looking at the whole of

INCONTINENCE

Want of chastity; Indulgence in unlawful carnal connection. Lucasv. Nichols, 52 N. C. 35; State v. Ilewlin, 128 X. C. 571, 37 S. E. 952.

I E

An abbreviation for “id est,” that is; that is to say.

ILL

In old pleading. Bad; defective in law ; null; naught; the opposite of good or valid.

IMAGINE

In English law. In cases of treason the law makes it a crime to imaginethe death of the king. But, In order to complete the crime, this act of the mind must

IMMOBILIS

Lat. Immovable. Immobilia or res immobile,?, immovable tilings, suchas lands and buildings. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 100.

IMPEDIMENTO

In Spanish law. A prohibition to contract marriage, established bylaw between certain persons.

IMPOTENCE

In medical Jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagatingthe species. Properly used of the male; but it has also been used synonymously with”sterility.” Grif’feth v. Griff- eth, 102 111. 30S, 44 N.

IMPROPRIATE RECTOR

In ecclesiastical law. Commonly signifies a lay rector asopposed to a spiritual rector; just as impropriate tithes are tithes in the hands of a layowner, as opposed to appropriate tithes, which are

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