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INSUPER

Lat Moreover; over and above. An old exchequer term, applied to a charge made upon a person in his account. Blount.

INTENDANT

One who has the charge, management, or direction of some office, de- partment, or public business. Used in the constitutional and statutory law of some European governments to designate a principal officer

INTER FAUCES TERRS

(Between the jaws of the land.) A term used to describe a roadstead or arm of the sea enclosed between promontories or projecting headlands.

INTERDICTUM SALVIANUM

Lat. In Roman law. The Salvian interdict. A process which lay for the owner of a farm to obtain possession of the goods of his tenant who had pledged them to him

INTERSTATE

Between two or more states; between places or persons In different states; concerning or affecting two or more states politically or territorially.

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.

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