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INUREMENT

Use; user; service to the use or benefit of a person. Dickerson v. Colgrove, 100 U. S. 5S3, 25 L. Ed. 018. Iiiutilis labor ct sine fructu non est effectus legis. Useless

INVIOLABILITY

The attribute of being secured against violation. The persons of ambassadors are inviolable.

IRREMOVABILITY

The status of a pauper In England, who cannot be legally removed from the parish or union in which

ISSUABLE

In practice. Leading to or producing an issue; relating to an issue or issues. See Colquitt v. Mercer, 44 Ga. 433.

INCUR

Men contract debts ; they incur liabilities. Iu the one case, they act affirmatively; in the other, the liability is incurred or cast upon them by act or operation oflaw. “Incur” means

INDEMPNIS

The old form of writing indemnis. Townsh. PI. 19. So, indempni- ficatus for indemnificatus.

INDICIUM

In the civil law. A sign or mark. A species of proof, answering very nearly to the circumstantial evidence of the common law. Best, Pres. p. 13,

INDIVIDUUM

Lat In the civil law. That cannot be divided. Calvin.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS

Schools (established by voluntary contribution) in which industrial training is provided, and in which children are lodged, clothed, and fed, as well as taught.

INFANZON

In Spanish law. A person of noble birth, who exercises within his domains and inheritance no other rights and privileges than those conceded to him. ICs- criche.

INFIRMATIVE

In the law of evidence. Having the quality of diminishing force; having a tendency to weaken or render infirm. 3 Benth. Jud. Ev. 14; Best, Pres.

INFRA FUROREM

During madness; while in a state of insanity. Bract fol. 196.

INGENIUM

(1) Artifice, trick, fraud; (2) an engine, machine, or device. Spelman.

INHONESTUS

In old English law. Unseemly; not In due order. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 31,

INNOTESCIMUS

Lat. We make known. A term formerly applied to letters patent, derived from the emphatic word at the conclusion of the Latin forms. It was a species of exemplification of charters of

INROLL

A form of “enroll,” used in the old books. 3 Rep. Ch. 63, 73; 3 East, 410.

INSINUATION

In the civil law. The transcription of an act on tbe public registers like our recording of deeds. It was not necessary in any other alienation but that appropriated to the purpose

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