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The coming Into a country of foreigners for purposes of permanentresidence. The correlative term “emigration” denotes the act of such persons in leavingtheir former country.

A criminal proceeding against a public officer, before a quasipolitical court, instituted by a written accusation called “articles of impeachment;” forexample, a written accusation by the house of representatives of the United

In old English practice. To obtain by request, as a writ or privilege.Bract, fols. 57, 1726. This application of the word seems to be derived from the civillaw. Calvin.

Taxes, duties, or impositions. A duty on imported goods or merchandise.Story, Const.

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

In equal right; on an equality in point of right.In sequali jure melior est conditio possidentis. In Ta case of] equal right thecondition of the party in i>ossession is the better. Plowd.

To the heads; by beads or polls. Persons succeed to an inheritance incapita when they individually take equal shares. So challenges to individual jurors arechallenges in capita, as distinguished from challenges to

In the custody or keeping of tbe law. 2 Steph. Comm. 74.

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 kind; in the same yen us or class; the same in quantity and quality,but not individually the same. Iu the Roman law, things which may be given or restoredin yenere are

In a court of justice; in a seat of judgment. Lord Hale is called “oneof the greatest and best men who ever sat in judgment” 1 East 306.In judiciis, minori setati succurritur.In

Intermediate. A term applied, in Scotch practice, to a fund held between parties litigant In mercibus illicitis non sit commer- cium. There should be no commerce in illicit orprohibited goods. 3 Kent,

This phrase, as applied to a legal transaction, primarily means that it hastaken place without legal proceedings. Thus a widow was said to make a request in paisfor her dower when she

At the present time. 2 Rl. Comm. 100. Used in opposition to in futuro.See Van Wyck v. Knevals, 100 U. S. 3G0, 1 Sup. Ct. 336, 27 L. Ed. 201.In prsesentia majoris

In the soil or ground. In solo alieno, in another’s ground. In solo proprio,in one’s own ground. 2 Steph. Comm. 20.

Present to the minds of men, and in full force and operation.

To give, or grant, and assure anything by a written instrument.

Lat In the civil law. An inhabitant ; a dweller or resident. Properly, one whohas transferred his domicile to auy country.Incolas domicilium facit. Residence creates domicile. Arnold v. United Ins. Co., 1Johns.

Lat. Increase or improvement, opposed to decrementum or abatement

In the law of evidence.Sameness; the fact that a subject, person, or thing before a court is the same as it isrepresented, claimed, or charged to be. See Burrill, Circ. Ev. 3S2,