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INTELLIGIBILITY

In pleading. The statement of matters of fact directly (excluding the necessity of Inference or argument to arrive at the meaning) and in such appropriate terms, so arranged, as to be comprehensible

INTER CZETEROS

Among others; in a general clause; not by name, (nominulim.) A term applied In the civil law to clauses of disinheritance in a will. Inst. 2, 13, 1; Id. 2, 13, 3.

INTERCOURSE

Communication; literally, a running or passing between persons or places; commerce. As applied to two persons, the word standing alone, and without a descriptive or qualifying word, does not import sexual connection.

INTERRUPTIO

INTERRUPTIO. Lat. Interruption. A term used both in the civil aud common law of prescription. Calvin. Interruptio multiplex non tollit prse- ?criptionem semel obtentam. 2 Inst. 654. Frequent interruption does not take

INTOLERABLE CRUELTY

In the law of divorce, this term denotes extreme cruelty, cruel and inhuman treatment, barbarous, savage, and inhuman conduct, and is equivalent to any of those phrases. Shaw v. Shaw, 17 Conn.

IRREGULARITY

Violation or nonob- servance of established rules and practices. The want of adherence to some prescribed rule or mode of proceeding; consisting either in omitting to do something that is necessary for

INDEMNITEE

The person who, in a contract of indemnity, is to be Indemnified or protected by the other.

INDICATIVE EVIDENCE

This is not evidence properly so called, but the mere sug- gestion of evidence proper, which may possibly be procured if the suggestion is follow- ed up. Brown.

INDULTO

In ecclcsiastical law. A dispensation granted by the pope to do or obtain something contrary to the common law. In Spanish law. The condonation or remission of the punishment imposed on a

INFANS

Lat. In the civil law. A child under the age of seven years; so called “quasi impos fanili,” (as not having the faculty of speech.) Cod. Theodos, 8. 18, 8. Infans non

INHERITANCE

An estate in things real, descending to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 201; In re Donahue’s Estate, 30 Cal. 332; Dodge’s Appeal, 100 Pa. 220, 51 Am. Rep. 519; Rountree v. Pursell,

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