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Lat. Repetition. In the Roman law, a bonitary owner might liberate a slave, and the quiritary owner’s repetition (iteratio) of the process effected a complete manumission. Brown.

An act against good behavior and a just delicacy. Timmons v. U. S., 85 Fed. 205, 30 C. C. A. 74; McJunkins v. State, 10 Ind. 144; Ardery v. State, 50 Ind.

In old public law. A declaration ; a proclamation. Indictio belli, a declaration or indiction of war. An indictment.

The act of a payee, drawee, accommodation indorser, or holder of a bill, note, check, or other negotiable instrument, in writing his name upon the back of the same, with or without

Incapable of being avoided ; fortuitous; transcending the power of hu- man care, foresight, or exertion to avoid or prevent, and therefore suspending legal relations so far as to excuse from tbe

The act or instrument of feoffment. In Scotland it is synonymous with “saisine,” meaning the instrument of possession. Formerly it was synonymous with “investiture.” Bell.

In practice. I am not informed. A formal answer made by the defendant’s attorney in court to the effect that he has not been advised of any defense to be made to

3ESIDIA. Within the protection ; within the defenses. In international law, wheu a prize, or other captured property, is brought into a port of the captors, or within their lines, or otherwise

In English law. An ancient writ of entry, by which the plaintiff or complainant sought an entry into his lands. Abolished in 1833.

Commenced; inchoate. Curtesy initiate is the interest which a husband has in the wife’s lands after a child is born who may inherit, but before the wife dies.

A person who lodges or dwells In the same house with another, occupying different TDOUIS, but using the same door for passing in and out of the house. Webster; Jacob.

This Latin word (commonly translated “meaning”) was the technical beginning of that clause iu a declaration or indictment for slander or libel in which the meaning of the alleged libelous words was

In evidence. Anything written or engraved upon a metallic or other solid substance, intended for great durability ; as upon a tombstone, pillar, tablet medal, ring, etc. In modern civil law. The

In English law. An instrument entered into between an insolvent debtor and his creditors, appointing one or more persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such insolvent’s affairs on behalf

Lat In Roman law. The appointment of the liwrcs iu the will. It corresponds very nearly to the nomination of an executor in English law. Without such an appointment the will was

One who participates in an insurrection ; one who opposes the execu- tion of law by force of arms, or who rises in revolt against the constituted authorities. A distinction is often

A writ that lay against him who entered into lands after the death of a tenant in dower, or for life, etc., and held out to him in reversion or remainder. Fitzh.

Between the living; from one living person to another. Where property passes by conveyance, the transaction is said to be inter vivos, to distinguish it from a case of succession or devise.

Provisional; temporary ; not final. Something intervening between the commencement and the end of a suit which decides some point or matter, but is not a final decision of the whole controversy.