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INTERN

To restrict or shut up a pei- son, as a political prisoner, within a limited territory.

INTERRUPTION

The occurrence of some act or fact, during the period of pre- scription, which is sufficient to arrest the running of the statute of limitations. It is said to be either “natural”

INTRA MCENIA

Within the walls (of a house.) A term applied to domestic or menial servants. 1 Bl. Comm. 425.

INTUITUS

Lat A view; regard; contemplation. Diverso intuitu, (q. v.,) with a different view.

INVEST

To loan money upon securities of a more or less permanent nature, or to place It in business ventures or real estate, or otherwise lay it out, so that it may pro-

IRRELEVANCY

The absence of the quality of relevancy in evidence or pleadings. Irrelevancy, in an answer, consists in statements which are not material to the decision of the case; such as do not

ISH

In Scotch law. The period of the termination of a tack or lease. 1 Bligh, 522.

IMAGINARY DAMAGES

This term is sometimes used as equivalent to “exemplary,” “vindictive,” or “punitive” damages. Murphy v. Hobbs, 7 Colo. 541, 5 Pac. 119. 49 Am. Rep. 366

INADEQUATE DAMAGES

Damages are called “inadequate,” within the rule that an injunction will not be granted where adequate damages at law could be recovered for the injury sought to be prevented, when such a

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