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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

INTER ALIA

Among other things. A term anciently used in pleading, especially in reciting statutes, where the whole statute was not set forth at length. Inter alia enaetatum fuit, among other things it was

INTERCEDERE

Lat. In the civil law. To become bound for another’s debt.

INTERMARRIAGE

In the popular sense, this term denotes the contracting of a marriage relation between two persons considered as members of different nations, tribes, families, etc., as, between the sovereigns of two different

INTERPRETATION

The art or process of discovering and expounding the intended signification of the language used iu a statute, will, contract, or any other written document, that is, the meaning which the author

INTOL AND UTTOL

In old records. Toll or custom paid for things imported and exported, or bought in and sold out. Cowell.

INTROMISSION

In Scotch law. The assumption of authority over another’s property, either legally or illegally. The irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which subjects the party to the whole debts

INVENTION

In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriving and producing something uot previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment.

IPSISSIMIS VERBIS

In the Identical words; opposed to “substantially.” Town- send v. Jeinison, 7 How. 710, 12 L. Ed. 8S0; Summons v. State, 5 Ohio St. 340. IPSO FACTO. By the fact itself; by

IRRITANT

In Scotch law. Avoiding or making void; as an irritant clause. See IRRITANCY.

I, R

An abbreviation for “Law Reports.”

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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