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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.

Proper or necessary to be prosecuted by process of Indictment.

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

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

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

Deficient in legal form; inartificially drawn up.

Within the jurisdiction. 2 Strange, 827.

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Between four walls. Fleta, lib. 6, c. 55,

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

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.

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