Category: I

In a court of equity, as distinguished from a court of law; in thepurview, consideration, or contemplation of equity; according to the doctrines of equity.

In the character or manner of a pauper. Describes permissiongiven to a poor person to sue without liability for costs.

In the preliminaries. A term in Scotch practice, applied to thepreliminary examination of a witness as to the following points: Whether he knows theparties, or bears ill will to either of them,

On or at the threshold; at the very beginning; preliminarily.

In the clouds; in abeyance; in custody of law. In mibibus, in marc, interra, vel in custodiO legis, iu the air, sea. or earth, or in the custody of the law. Tayl.Gloss.

In mining law, rock or mineralized matter is “in place” when remaining asnature placed it, that is, unsevered from the circumjacent rock, or which is fixed solidand immovable in the form of

In the nature of things; in the realm of actuality; in existence.In a dilatory plea, an allegation that the plaintiff is not in rerum natura is equivalent toaverring that the person named

Lat. In witness; In evidence whereof.

An uninclosed common, marked out, however, by boundaries.

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

In the rule that statutes should be so construed as to avoid”inconvenience,” this means, as applied to the public, the sacrifice or jeoparding ofimportant public interests or hampering the legitimate activities of

Lat. In the same place; in the same book ; on the same page, etc. Abbreviatedto “ibid.” or “ib.”

To purge one’s self by oath of a crime of which one is accused.

Not leviable; that cannot or ought not to be levied. Cowell.

A brook, gutter, or water- passage. Cowell.

In English practice. Toimpanel a jury signifies the entering by the sheriff upon a piece of parchment, termed a”panel,” the names of the jurors who have been summoned to appear in court

Lat. Unskillfulness; want of skill.Imperitia culpa! adnumeratur. Want of skill is reckoned as culpa; that is, as blamableconduct or neglect. Dig. 50, 17, 132.Imperitia est maxima mechanicorum poena. Unskillfulness is the greatest

The act of bringing goods and merchandise into a country from a foreign country.

To press upon; to impress or press; to imprint or print.

Exemption or protection from penalty or punishment. Dillon v. Rogers,30 Tex. 153.