INFANT
A person within age, not of age, or not of full age; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Co. Litt. 171 b; 1 Bl. Comm. 403-10G; 2 Kent,
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A person within age, not of age, or not of full age; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Co. Litt. 171 b; 1 Bl. Comm. 403-10G; 2 Kent,
Sax. An assault made on a person inhabiting the same dwelling. Infinitum in jure reprobatur. That which is endless is reprobated in law. 12 Coke, 24. Applied to litigation.
Within the body (territorial limits) of a couuty. Iu English law, waters which are infra corpus comitatus are exempt from the jurisdiction of the admiralty.
A coif, or a cassock. Jacob.
In ecclesiastical law. A writ issuing from a superior ecclesiastical court, forbidding an inferior judge to pro- ceed further in a cause pending before him. In this sense it is closely analogous
Bestoration to the protection of law. Bestoration from a condition of outlawry
Free from guilt; acting in good faith and without knowledge of incrim- inatory circumstances, or of defects or objections.
An authority given to some official person to institute an inquiry concerning the crown’s interests.
Lat In the civil law. To put into; to deposit a writing in court, answering nearly to the modern expression “to file.” Si non mandatum actis insin- uatum est, if the power
In old English deeds. A stock or store of cattle, and other things; the whole stock upon a farm, including cattle, wagons, plows, and all other Implements of husbandry. 1 Mon. Angl.
Lat. An island; a house not connected with other houses, but separated by a surrounding space of ground. Calvin.
To design, resolve, purpose. To apply a rule of law in the nature of pre- sumption ; to discern and follow the probabilities of like cases.
Between husband and wife.
In French law. Every person who, on account of insanity, has become incapable of controlling his own interests, can be put under the control of a guardian, who shall administer his affairs
Belating to the Interior j comprised within boundary lines; of interior concern or interest; domestic, as opposed to foreign.
The point of intersection of two roads is the point where their middle lines intersect. In re Springfield Road, 73 Pa. 127.
Between walls; among friends; out of court; without litigation. Calvin.
To take effect; to result. Cedar Rapids Water Co. v. Cedar Rapids, 118 Iowa, 234, 91 N. W. 1081; Hinson v. Booth, 39 Fla. 333, 22 South. 687; Holmes v. Tallada, 125
A ceremony which accompanied the grant of lands in the feudal ages, and consisted in the open and notorious delivery of possessiou in the presence of the other vassals, which perpetuated among
In the law of evidence. Not relevant; not relating or applicable to the matter In issue; not supporting the Issue.
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