Category: I

The ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as the placing a bishop into his see. a dean or prebendary into his stall or seat, or a knight

Lat. Works containing the elements of any science; institutions or institutes. One of Justinian’s priucipal law collections, and a similar work of the Roman jurist Gaius, are so entitled. See INSTITUTES.

In old English law. A kind of thieves Inhabiting Redesdale, on the extreme northern border of England; so called because they took in or received such booties of cattle and other things

Lat. Among; between.

Lat. In the civil law. To introduce or insert among or between others; to introduce a day or month into the calendar; to intercalate. Dig. 50, 16, 98, pr.

Persons who run into business to which they have no right, or who interfere wrongfully; persons who enter a country or place to trade without license. Webster.

Interpretare et concordare leges leg- ibus, est optimiis interpretandi modus. I’D interpret, and [in such a way as] to harmonize laws with laws, is the best mode of interpretation. 8 Coke, 169a.

An old form of

The part of a writing which sets forth preliminary matter, or facts tending to explain the subject.

In the civil law. Finding ; one of the modes of acquiring title to property by occupancy. Ileinecc. lib. 2, tit 1,

He himself said it; a bare assertion resting on the authority of an in- dividual.

In Scotch law. The happening of a condition or event by which a charter, contract, or other deed, to which a clause irritant is annexed, becomes void.

Wandering; traveling; applied to justices who make circuits. Also applied in various statutory and municipal laws (in the sense of traveling from place to place) to certain classes of merchants, traders, and

A failure of issue not merely at the death of the party whose issue are referred to, but at any subsequent period, however remote. 1 Steph. Comm. 562. A failure of issue

That which is uncertain, or not particularly designated; as if I sell you one hundred bushels of wheat, without stating what wheat 1 Bouv. Inst, no. 950.

In old English law. A subject born; one born within tbe realm, or naturalized by act of parliament Co. Litt 8a. The opposite of “alieniyena,” (q. v.)

In contracts. The benefit or advantage which the promisor is to receive from a contract is the inducement for making it. In criminal evidence. Motive; that which leads or tempts to the

Lat Infamy; ignominy or disgrace. By infamia juris is meant infamy established by law as the consequence of crime; in- famia facti is where the party is supposed to be guilty of

One who, iu relation to another, has less power and is below him ; one who is bound to obey another, lie who makes the law is the superior; he who is

Where a man doing a lawful act without intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another.