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The person who is bound, by an indemnity contract, to indemnify or protect the other. INDEMNITY 616 INDEPENDENT

In English practice. A writ of prohibition that lies for a patron of a church, whose clerk is sued in the spiritual court by the clerk of another patron, for tithes amounting

L. Fr. In old English law. A person indicted. Mirr. c. 1,

Endowment, (q.

A person within age, not of age, or not of full age; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Co. Litt. 171 b; 1 Bl. Comm. 403-10G; 2 Kent,

Sax. An assault made on a person inhabiting the same dwelling. Infinitum in jure reprobatur. That which is endless is reprobated in law. 12 Coke, 24. Applied to litigation.

Within the body (territorial limits) of a couuty. Iu English law, waters which are infra corpus comitatus are exempt from the jurisdiction of the admiralty.

A coif, or a cassock. Jacob.

In ecclesiastical law. A writ issuing from a superior ecclesiastical court, forbidding an inferior judge to pro- ceed further in a cause pending before him. In this sense it is closely analogous

Bestoration to the protection of law. Bestoration from a condition of outlawry

Free from guilt; acting in good faith and without knowledge of incrim- inatory circumstances, or of defects or objections.

An authority given to some official person to institute an inquiry concerning the crown’s interests.

Lat In the civil law. To put into; to deposit a writing in court, answering nearly to the modern expression “to file.” Si non mandatum actis insin- uatum est, if the power

In old English deeds. A stock or store of cattle, and other things; the whole stock upon a farm, including cattle, wagons, plows, and all other Implements of husbandry. 1 Mon. Angl.

Lat. An island; a house not connected with other houses, but separated by a surrounding space of ground. Calvin.

One who has the charge, management, or direction of some office, de- partment, or public business. Used in the constitutional and statutory law of some European governments to designate a principal officer

(Between the jaws of the land.) A term used to describe a roadstead or arm of the sea enclosed between promontories or projecting headlands.

Lat. In Roman law. The Salvian interdict. A process which lay for the owner of a farm to obtain possession of the goods of his tenant who had pledged them to him

The law which regulates the intercourse of nations; the law of nations. 1 Kent, Comm. 1, 4. The customary law which determines the rights and regulates the intercourse of inde- pendent states

Between two or more states; between places or persons In different states; concerning or affecting two or more states politically or territorially.