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INTERPRETER

A person sworn at a trial to interpret the evidence of a foreigner or a deaf and dumb person to the court. Amory v. Fellowes. 5 Mass. 220; People v. Lem Deo,

INTOXICATION

The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the ad- ministration or introduction into the human system of a poison. But in its popular use this term is restricted to alcoholic

INTRONISATION

In French ecclesiastical law. Enthronement. The installation of a bishop in his episcopal see.

INVENTOR

One who finds out or contrives some new thing; one who devises some new art, manufacture, mechanical appliance, or process; one who invents a patentable contrivance. See Sparkman v. Higgins, 22 Fed.

IPSO JURE

By the law itself; by the mere operation of law. Calvin. Ira furor brevis est. Anger is a short insanity. Beardsley v. Maynard, 4 Wend. (N. Y.) 330, 355.

IRRITANT CLAUSE

In Scotch law. A provision by which certain prohibited acts BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

I NEGOTIABILITY

In mercantile law (Transferable quality. That quality of bills of exchange and promissory notes which renders them transferable from one person to another, and from possessing which they are emphatically termed “negotiable

INDIANS

The aboriginal iuhabitants of North America. Frazee v. Spokane County, 29 Wash. 278, 69 Pac. 782.

INDIGNITY

In the law of divorce, a species of cruelty addressed to the mind, sen- sibilities, self-respect, or personal honor of tbe subject, rather than to the body, and de- fined as “unmerited

INDUCTIO

Lat. In the civil law. Obliteration, by drawing the pen or stylus over the writing. Dig. 28, 4; Calvin.

INFEUDATION

The placing in possession of a freehold estate; also the granting of tithes to laymen.

INFRA TRIDUUM

Within three days. Formal words in old appeals. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 31,

INHABITED HOUSE DUTY

A tax assessed in England on inhabited dwelling- houses, according to their annual value, (St. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 30; 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, 8 11.) which is payable

INJURIOUS WORDS

In Louisiana. Slander, or libelous words. Civil Code La. art. 3501.

INNER BARRISTER

A Serjeant or king’s counsel, in England, who is admitted to plead within the bar

INPENY and OUTPENY

In old English law. A customary payment of a penny on entering into and going out of a tenancy, (pro exitu de tcnura, et pro ingressu.) Spel- man.

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