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INFANTIA

Lat. In the civil law. The period of infancy between birth and the age of seven years. Calvin.

INFIRM

Weak, feeble. The testimony of an

INFRA DIGNITATEM CURI

Beneath the dignity of the court; unworthy of the consideration of the court. Where a bill Iu equity is brought upon a matter too trilling to deserve the attention of the court,

INFUSION

In medical jurisprudence. The process of steeping in liquor; an operation by which the medicinal qualities of a substance may be extracted by a liquor without boiling. Also the product of this

INHOC

In old records. A nook or corner of a common or fallow field, inclosed and cultivated. Kennett, Par. Antiq. 297, 298; Cowell.

INLAND

Within a country, state, or territory ; within the same country. In old English law, inland was used for the demesne (

INNOMINATE

In the civil law. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class; ranking under a general head. A term applied to those contracts for which no certain or precise remedy was

INQUISITION

In practice. An inquiry or inquest; particularly, an investigation of certain facts made by a sheriff, together with a jury impaneled by him for the purpose.

INSINUATIO

Lat In old English law. Information or suggestion. Ex insinuatione, on the information. Reg. Jud. 25, 50.

INSTIGATION

Incitation; urging; so licitatiou. The act by which one Incites another to do something, as to commit som< crime or to commence a suit. State v. Frak- er, 148 Mo. 143, 49

INSUPER

Lat Moreover; over and above. An old exchequer term, applied to a charge made upon a person in his account. Blount.

INTENDANT

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

INTER FAUCES TERRS

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

INTERDICTUM SALVIANUM

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

INTERSTATE

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

INUREMENT

Use; user; service to the use or benefit of a person. Dickerson v. Colgrove, 100 U. S. 5S3, 25 L. Ed. 018. Iiiutilis labor ct sine fructu non est effectus legis. Useless

INVIOLABILITY

The attribute of being secured against violation. The persons of ambassadors are inviolable.

IRREMOVABILITY

The status of a pauper In England, who cannot be legally removed from the parish or union in which

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