Category: I

A memorandum of debt, consisting of these letters, (“I owe you,”) a sum ofmoney, and the debtor’s signature, is termed an “I O U.” Kinney v. Flynn, 2 R. I. 329.

A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whomthe law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any. Shelf. Lun. 2. See INSANITY.

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

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

Contrary to good morals; Inconsistent with the rules and principles ofmorality which regard men as living in a community, and which are necessary for thepublic welfare, order, and decency.

Disabilities, or hindrances to the making of contracts, such ascoverture, infancy, want of reason, etc.In the civil law. Bars to marriage.Absolute impediments are those which prevent the person subject to them frommarrying

Pledged; given In pledge, (pignori data;) mortgaged. A term appliedin Bracton to land. Bract, fol. 20.

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 ecclesiastical law. The annexing an ecclesiastical benefice tothe use of a lay person, whether individual or corporate, In the same way as appropriationis the annexing of any such benefice to the

In equal hand; held equally or indifferently between two parties.Where an instrument was deposited by the parties to it in the hands of a thirdperson, to keep on certain conditions, it was

In chief. 2 Bl. Comm. 00. Tenure in capite was a holding directly from the king.In casu extremse necessitatis omnia sunt communia. Hale, P. C. 54. In cases ofextreme necessity, everything is

In fault. See IN PAHI DELICTO, etc.

In the face of the church. A term applied in the law of Englandto marriages, which are required to be solemnized in a parish church or public chapel,unless by dispensation or license.

In the general passage; that is, on the journey to Palestinewith the general company or body of Crusaders. This term was of frequent occurrencein the old law of essoins, as a meaus

In eyre; on a journey or circuit. In old English law, the justices initinere (or in eyre) were those who made a circuit through the kingdom once in sevenyears for the purposes

Into the heart of the subject, without preface or introduction.

In the peace of God and the king. Fleta. lib. 1. c. 31.

In possibility ; not in actual existence. See IN ESSE.

In simple pilgrimage. Bract, fol. 338. A phrase in the old law of essoins. See IN GENERALIPASSAGIO.

In transit; on the way or passage; while passing from one person or place to another. 2 Kent. Comm. 510-552; More v. Lott, 13 Nev. 383; Amory MI’g. Co. v. Gulf, etc..