INNOCENT
Free from guilt; acting in good faith and without knowledge of incrim- inatory circumstances, or of defects or objections.
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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.
To design, resolve, purpose. To apply a rule of law in the nature of pre- sumption ; to discern and follow the probabilities of like cases.
Between husband and wife.
In French law. Every person who, on account of insanity, has become incapable of controlling his own interests, can be put under the control of a guardian, who shall administer his affairs
Belating to the Interior j comprised within boundary lines; of interior concern or interest; domestic, as opposed to foreign.
The point of intersection of two roads is the point where their middle lines intersect. In re Springfield Road, 73 Pa. 127.
Between walls; among friends; out of court; without litigation. Calvin.
To take effect; to result. Cedar Rapids Water Co. v. Cedar Rapids, 118 Iowa, 234, 91 N. W. 1081; Hinson v. Booth, 39 Fla. 333, 22 South. 687; Holmes v. Tallada, 125
A ceremony which accompanied the grant of lands in the feudal ages, and consisted in the open and notorious delivery of possessiou in the presence of the other vassals, which perpetuated among
In the law of evidence. Not relevant; not relating or applicable to the matter In issue; not supporting the Issue.
A piece of land surrounded by water. Webber v. Pere Marquette Boom Co., 02 Mich. 020, 30 N. W. 409; Goff v. Cougle, 118 Mich. 307, 70 N. W. 4S9, 42 L.
The holder of an iu- cumbrauce, e. y., a mortgage, on the estateof another. De Voe v. Bundle, 33 Wash. 004, 74 Pac. S30; Shaeffer v. Weed, 8 111.514; Newhall v. Insurance
An Indemnity Is a collateral contract or assurance, by which one person engages to secure another against an anticipated loss or to prevent him from being damnified by the legal consequences of
Signs; indications. Circumstances which point to the existence of a given fact as probable, but not certain. For example, “indicia of partnership” are any circumstances which would induce the belief that a
As a noun, this term denotes a single person as distinguished from a group or class, and also, very commonly, a private or natural person as distinguished from a partnership, corporation, or
INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES. Societies formed in England for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land and also (but subject to certain
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