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INDIVISIBLE

Not susceptible of division or apportioument; inseparable; en INDIVISUM 619 INDUBITABLE PROOF tire. Thus, a contract, covenant, consideration, etc., may be divisible or indivisible;

INDUSTRIAM

PER. Lat. A qualified property in animals Jcrui natural may be ac- quired per inilustriam, i. e., by a man’s reclaiming and making them tame by art, in- dustry, and education; or

INFECTION

in medical jurisprudence. The transmission of disease or disease germs from one person to another, either directly by contact with morbidly affected surfaces, or more remotely through inhalation, absorption of food or

INFRA HOSPITIUM

Within the inu. When a traveler’s baggage comes infra hos- pitium, i. e., in the care and under the custody of the innkeeper, the latter’s liability attaches.

INGENUITAS

Lat. Freedom; liberty; the state or condition of one who is free. Also liberty given to a servant by manumission.

INHUMAN TREATMENT

In the law of divorce. Such barbarous cruelty or severity as endangers the life or health of the party to whom it is addressed, or creates a well-founded apprehension of such danger.

INLAUGHE

Sax. In old English law. Under the law, (sul> lege,) in a l’rank-pledge, or decennary. Bract, fol. 1256.

INNOVATION

In Scotch law. The exchange of one obligation for another, so as to make the second obligation come in the place of the first, and be the only subsisting obligation against the

INSOLATION

In medical jurisprudence. Sunstroke or heat-stroke; heat prostration

INSTITOR

Lat. In the civil law. A clerk in a store; an agent

INSURANCE

A contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, one party undertakes to compensate the other for loss on a specified subject by specified perils. The party agreeing to make the compensation is usually

INTENDMENT OF LAW

The true meaning, the correct understanding or intention of the law; a presumption or inference made by the courts. Co. Litt. 78.

INTERFERENCE

In patent law. this term designates a collision between rights claimed or granted; that is, where a person claims a patent for the whole or any integral part of the ground already

INTERPELLATION

In the civil law. The act by which, in consequence of an agree- ment, the party bound declares that he will not be bound beyond a certain time. Wolff, Inst. Nat.

INTESTATE

Without making a will. A person is said to die intestate when he dies without making a will, or dies without leaving anything to testify what his wishes were with respect to

INTRAEIMINAE

In mining law, the term “intraliminal rights” denotes the right to minei, take, and possess all such bodfes or deposits of ore as lie within the four planes formed by the vertical

INVADIATUS

One who is under pledge; one who has had sureties or pledges given for him. Spelman.

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