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INGROSSATOR

An engrosser.In- grossator magni rotuli. engrosser of the great roll; afterwards called “clerk of the pipe.” Spel^ian; Cowell.

INJUNCTION

A prohibitive writ issued by a court of equity, at the suit of a party complainant, directed to a party defendant in the action, or to a party made a defendant for

INOFICIOCID AD

In Spanish law. Everything done contrary to a duty or obligation assumed, as well as in opposition to the piety and affection dictated by nature. Escriche.

INSENSIBLE

In pleading. Unintelligible ; without sense or meaning, from the omission of material words, etc. Steph. PI. 377. See Union Sewer Pipe Co. v. Olson, 82 Minn. 1S7. 84 N. W. 750.

INSTALLATION

The ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as the placing a bishop into his see. a dean or prebendary into his stall or seat, or a knight

INSTITUTIONES

Lat. Works containing the elements of any science; institutions or institutes. One of Justinian’s priucipal law collections, and a similar work of the Roman jurist Gaius, are so entitled. See INSTITUTES.

INTAKERS

In old English law. A kind of thieves Inhabiting Redesdale, on the extreme northern border of England; so called because they took in or received such booties of cattle and other things

INTERCALARE

Lat. In the civil law. To introduce or insert among or between others; to introduce a day or month into the calendar; to intercalate. Dig. 50, 16, 98, pr.

INTERLOPERS

Persons who run into business to which they have no right, or who interfere wrongfully; persons who enter a country or place to trade without license. Webster.

INTEKPRETARE ET CONCORDARE 650 INTERROGATORIES

Interpretare et concordare leges leg- ibus, est optimiis interpretandi modus. I’D interpret, and [in such a way as] to harmonize laws with laws, is the best mode of interpretation. 8 Coke, 169a.

INTRODUCTION

The part of a writing which sets forth preliminary matter, or facts tending to explain the subject.

INVENTIO

In the civil law. Finding ; one of the modes of acquiring title to property by occupancy. Ileinecc. lib. 2, tit 1,

IPSE DIXIT

He himself said it; a bare assertion resting on the authority of an in- dividual.

IRRITANCY

In Scotch law. The happening of a condition or event by which a charter, contract, or other deed, to which a clause irritant is annexed, becomes void.

ITINERANT

Wandering; traveling; applied to justices who make circuits. Also applied in various statutory and municipal laws (in the sense of traveling from place to place) to certain classes of merchants, traders, and

INDEFINITE FAILURE OF ISSUE

A failure of issue not merely at the death of the party whose issue are referred to, but at any subsequent period, however remote. 1 Steph. Comm. 562. A failure of issue

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