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As applied to streams, not capable of or suitable for navigation ; im- passable by ships or vessels. As applied to vessels in the law of marine Insurance, it means unfit for

An intestate.

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

To interfere with property or the conduct of business affairs officiously or without right or title. Mc Queen v. Babcock, 41 Barb. (N. Y.) 339; In re Shinn’s Estate, ICC Pa. 121,

A person sworn at a trial to interpret the evidence of a foreigner or a deaf and dumb person to the court. Amory v. Fellowes. 5 Mass. 220; People v. Lem Deo,

The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the ad- ministration or introduction into the human system of a poison. But in its popular use this term is restricted to alcoholic

In French ecclesiastical law. Enthronement. The installation of a bishop in his episcopal see.

One who finds out or contrives some new thing; one who devises some new art, manufacture, mechanical appliance, or process; one who invents a patentable contrivance. See Sparkman v. Higgins, 22 Fed.

By the law itself; by the mere operation of law. Calvin. Ira furor brevis est. Anger is a short insanity. Beardsley v. Maynard, 4 Wend. (N. Y.) 330, 355.

In Scotch law. A provision by which certain prohibited acts BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)

In mercantile law (Transferable quality. That quality of bills of exchange and promissory notes which renders them transferable from one person to another, and from possessing which they are emphatically termed “negotiable

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.