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INVITO

Lat. Being unwilling. Against or without the assent or consent.

IRREPLEVIABLE

That cannot be replevied or delivered on sureties. Spelled, also, “irreplevisable.” Co. Litt. 145.

ITA QUOD

Lat. In old practice. So that. Formal words iu writs. Ita quod habeas corpus, so that you have the body. 2 Mod. ISO. The name of the stipulation in a submission to

INDEBITI SOLUTIO

Lat In the civil and Scotch law. A payment of what Is not due. When made through ignorance or by mistake, the amount paid might be recovered back by an action termed

INDENT, n

In American law. A certificate or Indented certificate issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt. Webster.

INDICTABLE

Proper or necessary to be prosecuted by process of Indictment.

INDORSAT

In old Scotch law. Indorsed. 2 Pitc. Crlm. Tr. 41.

INEBRIATE

A person addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors; an habitual drunkard. Any person who habitually, whether continuously or periodically, indulges in the use of intoxicating liquors to such an extent as

INFEFT

In Scotch law. To give seisin or possession of lands; to invest or enfeoff. 1 Kames, Eq. 215.

INFORMAL

Deficient in legal form; inartificially drawn up.

INGENUUS

l. Applied sometimes also to the barons. INGENUUS. In Roman law. A person who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libcrtus, who, having

INIQUITY

In Scotch practice. A technical expression applied to the decision of an inferior judge who has decided contrary to law; he is said to have committed iniquity. Ben. Iniqnnm est alios permittere,

INLAW

To place under the protection of the law. “Swearing obedience to the king in a leet, which doth inlaw the subject.” Bacon.

INNOXIARE

In old English law. To purge one of a fault and make him innocent.

INSANE

Unsound in mind; of unsound mind; deranged, disordered, or diseased in mind. Violently deranged; mad.

INSOLVENCY

The condition of a person who is insolvent; inability to pay one’s debts; lack of means to pay one’s debts. Such a relative condition of a man’s assets and liabilities that the

INSTITUTE, v

To inaugurate or commence; as to institute an action. Com. v. Duane, 1 Binn. (Pa.) 608, 2 Am. Dec. 497; Franks v. Chapman, 61 Tex. 580; Post v. U. S

INSURE

To engage to indemnify a person against pecuniary loss from specified per- ils. To act as an insurer

INTENT

1. In criminal law and the law of evidence. Purpose; formulated design ; a resolve to do or forbear a particular act; aim; determination. In its literal sense, the stretching of the

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