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INTIMIDATION

In English law. Every person commits a misdemeanor, punishable with a fine or imprisonment, who wrongfully uses violence to or intimidates any other person, or his wife or children, with a view

INTRINSIC VALUE

he intrinsic value of a thing is its true. Inherent, and es sential value, not depending upon accident, place, or person, but the same everywhere and to every one. Bank of North

INVENT

To find out something new; to devise, contrive, and produce something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of Independent investigation and ex- periment; particularly applied to machines, mechanical appliances, compositions,

IPSE

Lat. lie himself; the same; the very person.

IRRIGATION

The operation of watering lands for agricultural purposes by artificial means.

ITINERA

Eyres, or circuits. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 52.

INDEFEASIBLE

INDEFEASIBLE. That which cannot be defeated, revoked, or made void. This term is usually applied to an estate or right which cannot be defeated.

INDICTMENT

A written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, presented to, and preferred upon oath or affirmation, by a grand jury legally convoked.

INDIFFERENT

INDIFFERENT. Impartial; unbiased; disinterested. People v. Vermilyea, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 122; Fox v. Hills, 1 Conn. 307.

INDUBITABLE PROOF

Evidence which Is not only found credible, but is of such weight and directness as to make out the facts alleged beyond a doubt. Hart v. Carroll, 85 Pa. 511; Jermyn v.

INFALISTATUS

In old English law. Exposed upon the sands, or sea-shore. A species of punishment mentioned in Heng- ham. Cowell.

INFERENTIAL

In tlie law of evidence. Operating in the way of inference; argumentative. Presumptive evidence is sometimes termed “inferential.” Com. v. Harman, 4 Pa. 272.

INFORTIATUM

The name given by the glossators to the second of the three parts or volumes into which the Pandects were divided. The glossators at Bologna had at first only two parts, the

INGROSSATOR

An engrosser.In- grossator magni rotuli. engrosser of the great roll; afterwards called “clerk of the pipe.” Spel^ian; Cowell.

INJUNCTION

A prohibitive writ issued by a court of equity, at the suit of a party complainant, directed to a party defendant in the action, or to a party made a defendant for

INOFICIOCID AD

In Spanish law. Everything done contrary to a duty or obligation assumed, as well as in opposition to the piety and affection dictated by nature. Escriche.

INSENSIBLE

In pleading. Unintelligible ; without sense or meaning, from the omission of material words, etc. Steph. PI. 377. See Union Sewer Pipe Co. v. Olson, 82 Minn. 1S7. 84 N. W. 750.

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