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Lat. Repetition. In the Roman law, a bonitary owner might liberate a slave, and the quiritary owner’s repetition (iteratio) of the process effected a complete manumission. Brown.

In old English law. That which is not titheable, or liable to pay tithe. 2 Inst 490.

INDEPENDENT. Not dependent; not subject to control, restriction, modification, or limitation from a given outside source.

CYCLE OF. A mode of computing time by the space of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine the Great; originally the period for the payment of certain taxes. Some of the charters of

He who indorses; i. e., being the payee or holder, writes his name on the back of a bill of exchange, etc.

A guard; a watchman. Domesday.

In the law of evidence. A truth or proposition drawn from another which is supposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to

A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute.

Within the four seas; within the kingdom of England; within the jurisdiction.

In old English law. Ingress ; entry. The relief paid by au heir to the lord was sometimes so called. Cowell.

In French law. The name given to the important prerogative conferred by the charte constitutionnelle, article 16, on the late king to propose through his ministers projects of laws. 1 Toullier, no.

An inn is a house where a traveler is furnisned with everything which he has occasion for while on his way. Thompson v. Lacy, 3 Barn. & Aid. 287; Wintermute v. Clark,

A will not in accordance with the testator’s natural affection and moral duties. Williams, Ex’rs, (7th Ed.) 38; Stein v. Wilzinski, 4 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 450; In re Willford’s Will (N.

The name given by the old English law to any written instrument by which anything was granted. Blount.

Lat. In old English law. We have inspected. An exemplification of letters patent, so called from the emphatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke. 53&.

The commencement or inauguration of anything. The first establishment of a law, rule, rite, etc. Any custom, system, organization, etc., firmly established. An elementary rule or principle. In practice. The commencement of

A rebellion, or rising of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government. See INSURGENT.Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the state, with intent to the

A writ that lay against him who entered into lands after the death of a tenant in dower, or for life, etc., and held out to him in reversion or remainder. Fitzh.

Between the living; from one living person to another. Where property passes by conveyance, the transaction is said to be inter vivos, to distinguish it from a case of succession or devise.

Provisional; temporary ; not final. Something intervening between the commencement and the end of a suit which decides some point or matter, but is not a final decision of the whole controversy.