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ITA EST

Lat. So it is; so it stands. In modern civil law, this phrase is a form of attestation added to exemplifications from a notary’s register when the same are made by the

INDE

Lat. Thence; thenceforth ; thereof; thereupon; for that cause. Inde datae leges ne fortior omnia posset. Laws are made to prevent the stronger from having the power to do everything. Dav. Ir.

INDIVISIBLE

Not susceptible of division or apportioument; inseparable; en INDIVISUM 619 INDUBITABLE PROOF tire. Thus, a contract, covenant, consideration, etc., may be divisible or indivisible;

INDUSTRIAM

PER. Lat. A qualified property in animals Jcrui natural may be ac- quired per inilustriam, i. e., by a man’s reclaiming and making them tame by art, in- dustry, and education; or

INFECTION

in medical jurisprudence. The transmission of disease or disease germs from one person to another, either directly by contact with morbidly affected surfaces, or more remotely through inhalation, absorption of food or

INFRA HOSPITIUM

Within the inu. When a traveler’s baggage comes infra hos- pitium, i. e., in the care and under the custody of the innkeeper, the latter’s liability attaches.

INGENUITAS

Lat. Freedom; liberty; the state or condition of one who is free. Also liberty given to a servant by manumission.

INHUMAN TREATMENT

In the law of divorce. Such barbarous cruelty or severity as endangers the life or health of the party to whom it is addressed, or creates a well-founded apprehension of such danger.

INLAUGHE

Sax. In old English law. Under the law, (sul> lege,) in a l’rank-pledge, or decennary. Bract, fol. 1256.

INNOVATION

In Scotch law. The exchange of one obligation for another, so as to make the second obligation come in the place of the first, and be the only subsisting obligation against the

INSOLATION

In medical jurisprudence. Sunstroke or heat-stroke; heat prostration

INSTITOR

Lat. In the civil law. A clerk in a store; an agent

INSURANCE

A contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, one party undertakes to compensate the other for loss on a specified subject by specified perils. The party agreeing to make the compensation is usually

INTENDENTE

In Spanish law. The immediate agent of the minister of finance, or the chief and principal director of the different branches of the revenue, appointed in the various departments in each of

INTER PARTES

Between parties. Instruments in which two persons unite, each making conveyance to, or engagement with, the other, are called “papers inter partes.” Smith v. Emery, 12 N. J. Law, 60.

INTEREST

In property. The most general term that can be employed to denote a property in lands or chattels. In its application to lands or things real, it is frequently used in connection

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