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INTEKPRETARE ET CONCORDARE 650 INTERROGATORIES

Interpretare et concordare leges leg- ibus, est optimiis interpretandi modus. I’D interpret, and [in such a way as] to harmonize laws with laws, is the best mode of interpretation. 8 Coke, 169a.

INTRODUCTION

The part of a writing which sets forth preliminary matter, or facts tending to explain the subject.

INVENTIO

In the civil law. Finding ; one of the modes of acquiring title to property by occupancy. Ileinecc. lib. 2, tit 1,

IPSE DIXIT

He himself said it; a bare assertion resting on the authority of an in- dividual.

IRRITANCY

In Scotch law. The happening of a condition or event by which a charter, contract, or other deed, to which a clause irritant is annexed, becomes void.

ITINERANT

Wandering; traveling; applied to justices who make circuits. Also applied in various statutory and municipal laws (in the sense of traveling from place to place) to certain classes of merchants, traders, and

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

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

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