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In contracts. The benefit or advantage which the promisor is to receive from a contract is the inducement for making it. In criminal evidence. Motive; that which leads or tempts to the

Lat Infamy; ignominy or disgrace. By infamia juris is meant infamy established by law as the consequence of crime; in- famia facti is where the party is supposed to be guilty of

One who, iu relation to another, has less power and is below him ; one who is bound to obey another, lie who makes the law is the superior; he who is

Where a man doing a lawful act without intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another.

Within the realm.

The act of making a fair and perfect copy of any document from a rough draft of it, in order that it may be executed or put to its final purpose.

Fr. In French law. Grievous insults or injuries, Including personal insults and reproachful language, constituting a just cause of divorce. Butler v. Butler, 1 Pars. Eq. Cas. (Pa.) 344.

In insurance law. The condition of being innavigable, (q. v.) The foreign writers distinguish “innaviga- bility” from “shipwreck.” 3 Kent, Comm. 323, and note. The term is also applied to the condition

Lat. Destitute of counsel; without legal counsel. A term applied to the acts or condition of one acting without legal advice, as a testator drafting his own will.

Lat. Highwaymen ; persons who lie in wait in order to commit some felony or other misdemeanor.

Different portions of the same debt payable at different successive periods as agreed. Brown.

To convey information as a client to an attorney, or as au attorney to a counsel; to authorize oue to appear as advocate ; to give a case in charge to the

emporary inclosures made by customary tenants of a manor under a special custom authorizing them to inclose part of the waste until one or more crops have been raised on it. Elton,

Among other things. A term anciently used in pleading, especially in reciting statutes, where the whole statute was not set forth at length. Inter alia enaetatum fuit, among other things it was

Lat. In the civil law. To become bound for another’s debt.

In the popular sense, this term denotes the contracting of a marriage relation between two persons considered as members of different nations, tribes, families, etc., as, between the sovereigns of two different

The art or process of discovering and expounding the intended signification of the language used iu a statute, will, contract, or any other written document, that is, the meaning which the author

In old records. Toll or custom paid for things imported and exported, or bought in and sold out. Cowell.

In Scotch law. The assumption of authority over another’s property, either legally or illegally. The irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which subjects the party to the whole debts

In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriving and producing something uot previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment.