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The underwriter or insurance company with whom a contract of insurance is made. The person who undertakes to indemnify another by a contract of insurance is called the “insurer,” and the person

Lat In the civil law. The formal complaint or claim of a plaintiff before the prtetor. In old English law. A count or declaration iu a real action, (narratio.) Bract, lib. 4,

Among themselves. Story, Partn.

n old practice. To link together, or interchangeably. Writs were called “interlaqueata” where several were issued against several parties residing in different counties, each party being summoned by a separate writ to

When two or more persons claim the same thing (or fund) of a third, and he, laying no claim to it himself, is ignorant which of them has a right to it,

Lat. In the civil and old English law. An intestate; one who dies without a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. Intestatus decedit, qui ant omnino test anion turn non fecit; ant non

See COMMERCE.

An encroachment upon the rights of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. Webster. See ^Etna Ins. Co. v. Boon, 95 U. S. 129, 24 L. Ed. 395. ?

An involuntary act is that which is performed with constraint (q. v.) or with repugnance, or without the will to do it. An action is involuntary, then, which is performed under duress.

Used chiefly in criminal law, this term means an impulse to commit an unlawful or criminal act which cannot be resisted or overcome by the patient because insanity or mental disease has

Lat. In the civil law. A way; a right of way belonging as a servitude to an estate in the country, (prccdium rusticum.) The right of way was of three kinds: (1)

An act against good behavior and a just delicacy. Timmons v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30 C. C. A. 74; McJunkins v. State, 10 Ind. 144; Ardery v. State, 50 Ind.

In old public law. A declaration ; a proclamation. Indictio belli, a declaration or indiction of war. An indictment.

The act of a payee, drawee, accommodation indorser, or holder of a bill, note, check, or other negotiable instrument, in writing his name upon the back of the same, with or without

Incapable of being avoided ; fortuitous; transcending the power of hu- man care, foresight, or exertion to avoid or prevent, and therefore suspending legal relations so far as to excuse from tbe

The act or instrument of feoffment. In Scotland it is synonymous with “saisine,” meaning the instrument of possession. Formerly it was synonymous with “investiture.” Bell.

In practice. I am not informed. A formal answer made by the defendant’s attorney in court to the effect that he has not been advised of any defense to be made to

3ESIDIA. Within the protection ; within the defenses. In international law, wheu a prize, or other captured property, is brought into a port of the captors, or within their lines, or otherwise

In English law. An ancient writ of entry, by which the plaintiff or complainant sought an entry into his lands. Abolished in 1833.