Category: I

Not capable of or entitled to be commuted. See COMMUTATION.

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

In English law. An ancient writ (now obsolete) which lay forone taken and arrested in any personal action, and committed to prison, by mistake foranother man of the same name, ritzh. Nat

Public disgrace; Infamy; reprttidi; dishonor. Ignominy is the opposite ofesteem. Wolff,

Unlettered; ignorant; unlearned. Generally used of one who cannotread and write. See In re Succession of Carroll, 28 La. Ann. 388.

Beyond human memory ; time out of mind.

In early practice, imparlance meant time given to either of the partiesto an action to answer the pleading of the other. It thtis amounted to a continuance ofthe action to a further

Irrelevancy; the fault of not properly pertaining to the issue orproceeding. The introduction of any matters into a bill, answer, or other pleading orproceeding in a suit, which are not properly before

Importations; goods or other property imported or brought into the countryfrom a foreign country.

Lat. In the first place; first of all.

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

In bank; in the bench. A term applied to proceedings in the court inbank, as distinguished from proceedings at nisi prius. Also, in the English court of common bench.

In consideration of the premises. 1 Strange, 535.In consimili casu, consimile debet esse remedium. Hardr. 05. In similar cases theremedy should be similar.

In being. Actually existing. Distinguished from in posse, which means “thatwhich is not, but may be.” A child before birth is in posse; after birth, in esse.

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

Infinitely; Indefinitely. Imports indefiuite succession or continuance.

On the deathbed. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 2S,

In the notes.In novo casu, novum remcdium appo- nendum est. 2 Inst. 3. A new remedy Is to be applied to a new case.

A party, plaintiff or defendant, who sues out a writ or other process, orappears to conduct his case in court himself, instead of through a solicitor or counsel, issaid to act and

In the affair; in the matter of. This is the usual method of entitling a judicial proceeding in which there are not adversary parties, but merely some res concerning which judicial action