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INFERENCE

In the law of evidence. A truth or proposition drawn from another which is supposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to

INFORMER

A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute.

INGRESSUS

In old English law. Ingress ; entry. The relief paid by au heir to the lord was sometimes so called. Cowell.

INITIATIVE

In French law. The name given to the important prerogative conferred by the charte constitutionnelle, article 16, on the late king to propose through his ministers projects of laws. 1 Toullier, no.

INN

An inn is a house where a traveler is furnisned with everything which he has occasion for while on his way. Thompson v. Lacy, 3 Barn. & Aid. 287; Wintermute v. Clark,

INOFFICIOUS TESTAMENT

A will not in accordance with the testator’s natural affection and moral duties. Williams, Ex’rs, (7th Ed.) 38; Stein v. Wilzinski, 4 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 450; In re Willford’s Will (N.

INSCRIPTIONES

The name given by the old English law to any written instrument by which anything was granted. Blount.

INSPEXIMUS

Lat. In old English law. We have inspected. An exemplification of letters patent, so called from the emphatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke. 53&.

INSTITUTION

The commencement or inauguration of anything. The first establishment of a law, rule, rite, etc. Any custom, system, organization, etc., firmly established. An elementary rule or principle. In practice. The commencement of

INSURRECTION

A rebellion, or rising of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government. See INSURGENT.Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the state, with intent to the

INTENTIONE

A writ that lay against him who entered into lands after the death of a tenant in dower, or for life, etc., and held out to him in reversion or remainder. Fitzh.

INTER VIVOS

Between the living; from one living person to another. Where property passes by conveyance, the transaction is said to be inter vivos, to distinguish it from a case of succession or devise.

INTERLOCUTORY

Provisional; temporary ; not final. Something intervening between the commencement and the end of a suit which decides some point or matter, but is not a final decision of the whole controversy.

INTIMIDATION

In English law. Every person commits a misdemeanor, punishable with a fine or imprisonment, who wrongfully uses violence to or intimidates any other person, or his wife or children, with a view

INTRINSIC VALUE

he intrinsic value of a thing is its true. Inherent, and es sential value, not depending upon accident, place, or person, but the same everywhere and to every one. Bank of North

INVENT

To find out something new; to devise, contrive, and produce something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of Independent investigation and ex- periment; particularly applied to machines, mechanical appliances, compositions,

IPSE

Lat. lie himself; the same; the very person.

IRRIGATION

The operation of watering lands for agricultural purposes by artificial means.

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