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INGROSSING

The act of making a fair and perfect copy of any document from a rough draft of it, in order that it may be executed or put to its final purpose.

INJURES GRAVES

Fr. In French law. Grievous insults or injuries, Including personal insults and reproachful language, constituting a just cause of divorce. Butler v. Butler, 1 Pars. Eq. Cas. (Pa.) 344.

INNAVIGABILITY

In insurance law. The condition of being innavigable, (q. v.) The foreign writers distinguish “innaviga- bility” from “shipwreck.” 3 Kent, Comm. 323, and note. The term is also applied to the condition

INOPS CONSIEII

Lat. Destitute of counsel; without legal counsel. A term applied to the acts or condition of one acting without legal advice, as a testator drafting his own will.

INSIDIATORES VIARUM

Lat. Highwaymen ; persons who lie in wait in order to commit some felony or other misdemeanor.

INSTALLMENTS

Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown.

INSTRUCT

To convey information as a client to an attorney, or as au attorney to a counsel; to authorize oue to appear as advocate ; to give a case in charge to the

INTAKES

emporary inclosures made by customary tenants of a manor under a special custom authorizing them to inclose part of the waste until one or more crops have been raised on it. Elton,

INTER ALIA

Among other things. A term anciently used in pleading, especially in reciting statutes, where the whole statute was not set forth at length. Inter alia enaetatum fuit, among other things it was

INTERCEDERE

Lat. In the civil law. To become bound for another’s debt.

INTERMARRIAGE

In the popular sense, this term denotes the contracting of a marriage relation between two persons considered as members of different nations, tribes, families, etc., as, between the sovereigns of two different

INTERPRETATION

The art or process of discovering and expounding the intended signification of the language used iu a statute, will, contract, or any other written document, that is, the meaning which the author

INTOL AND UTTOL

In old records. Toll or custom paid for things imported and exported, or bought in and sold out. Cowell.

INTROMISSION

In Scotch law. The assumption of authority over another’s property, either legally or illegally. The irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which subjects the party to the whole debts

INVENTION

In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriving and producing something uot previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment.

IPSISSIMIS VERBIS

In the Identical words; opposed to “substantially.” Town- send v. Jeinison, 7 How. 710, 12 L. Ed. 8S0; Summons v. State, 5 Ohio St. 340. IPSO FACTO. By the fact itself; by

IRRITANT

In Scotch law. Avoiding or making void; as an irritant clause. See IRRITANCY.

I, R

An abbreviation for “Law Reports.”

INDEFINITE PAYMENT

the creditor, without specifying to which of the debts he means the payment to be applied. See Bell. Indefinitum sequipollet universal!. The undefined is equivalent to the whole. 1 Vent 308. Indefinitum

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