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IMPLEAD

In practice. To sue or pros ecute by due course of law. People v. Clarke, 9N. Y. 368.

IMPRESCRIPTIBLE RIGHTS

Such rights as a person may use or not, at pleasure,since they cannot be lost to him by the claims of another founded on prescription.

IMPROVIDENCE

as used in a statute excluding one found incompetent to executethe duties of an administrator by reason of improvidence, means that want of care andforesight in the management of property which would

IN APICIBUS JURIS

Among the subtleties or extreme doctrines of the law. 1 Kames,Eq. 190. See APEX JURIS

IN COMMENDAM

In commendation; as a commended living. 1 Bl. Comm. 393. See CO.MMENDA.A term applied in Louisiana to a limited partnership, answering to the French “encommandite.” Civil Code La. art. 2810.In commodato bsec

IN DUBIO

In doubt; in a state of uncertainty, or in a doubtful case.In dubio, liaec legis constructio quam verba ostendunt. In a case of doubt, that Isthe construction of the law which the

IN FAVOREM VIT

In favor of life.In favorem vitae, libertatis, et innocen- tiae, omnia praesumuntur. In favor of life,liberty, and innocence, every presump- tion is made. Lofft. 125.

IN JUS VOCARE

To call, cite, or summon to court. Inst. 4, 10. 3; Calvin. In jusvocando, summoning to court. 3 Bl. Comm. 279.

IN MORA

In default; literally. In delay. In the civil law, a borrower who omitsor refuses to return the thing loaned at the proper time is said to be in mora. Story,Bailm.

IN PROPRIA PERSONA

In one’s own proper person.In quo quis delinquit, in eo de jure est puniendus. In whatever thing one offends, in that is he rightfully to be punished. Co. Litt. 2336; Wing. Max.

IN TANTUM

In so much; so much; so far; so greatly. Reg. Orig. 07, 10G.

INBLAURA

In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell.

INCIPITUR

Lat. It is begun; it begins. In old practice, when the pleadings in anaction at law, instead of being recited at large on the Issue-roll, were set out merely bytheir commencements, this

INCONSISTENT

Mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other.so that both cannot stand, but the acceptance or establishment of the one implies theabrogation or abandonment of the other; as, in speaking

I

The initial letter of the word “Insti- tuta,” used by some civilians in citing theInstitutes of Justinian. Tayl. Civil Law, 24.

ILLATA ET INVECTA

Lat. Things brought into the house for use by the tenant wereso called, and were liable to the jus liypothccce of Roman law, just as they are to thelandlord’s right of distress

IMAN, IMAM, or IMAUM

A Mohammedan prince having supreme spiritual as well astemporal power; a regular priest of the mosque.

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