Category: I

Ensigns or arms; distinctive marks; badges; indicia; characteristics.

In pleading and practice. Solicitation, properly of an earnest or urgent kind. An act is often said to be done at a party’s “special instance and request.” In the civil and French

In French criminal law. The first process of a criminal prosecution. It includes the examination of the accused, the preliminary interrogation of witnesses, collateral investigations, the gathering of evidence, the reduction of

Used chiefly in the law of taxation, this term means such property as has no intrinsic and marketable value, but is merely the representative or evidence of value, such as certificates of

Between other persons; between those who are strangers to a matter in question.

By way of exchange or interchange. This term properly denotes the method of signing deeds, leases, contracts, etc., executed in duplicate, where each party signs the copy which he delivers to the

In modern civil law. A broker; one who is employed to negotiate a matter between two parties, and who for that reason is considered as the mandatary (agent) of both. Civ. Code

An interval between reigns. The period which elapses between the death of a sovereign and the election of another. The vacancy which occurs when there is no government.

Any liquor used as a beverage, and which, when so used in sufficient quantities, ordinarily or commonly produces entire or partial intoxication; any liquor intended for use as a beverage or capable

One who enters upon land without either right of possession or color of title. Miller v. McCullough, 104 Pa. 030; Itussel v. Chambers, 43 Ga. 479. In a more restricted sense, a

A detailed list of articles of property; a list or schedule of property, containing a designation or description of each specific article; an itemized list of the various articles constituting a collection,

Lat. Moved or excited by anger or passion. A term sometimes formerly used in the plea of son assault demesne. 1 Tidd, Pr. 045.

Lat. In the civil law. To impose or set upon, as a fine. Calvin. To inflict, as a punishment. To make or ordain, as a law.

A personal action. In this sense, the term was borrowed from the civil law by Bracton. The English form is constantly used as the designation of one of the chief divisions of

Lat Indemnified. See INDEMNIFY.

The aboriginal iuhabitants of North America. Frazee v. Spokane County, 29 Wash. 278, 69 Pac. 782.

In the law of divorce, a species of cruelty addressed to the mind, sen- sibilities, self-respect, or personal honor of tbe subject, rather than to the body, and de- fined as “unmerited

Lat. In the civil law. Obliteration, by drawing the pen or stylus over the writing. Dig. 28, 4; Calvin.

INFAMOUS CRIME

The placing in possession of a freehold estate; also the granting of tithes to laymen.