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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.

ITINERA

Eyres, or circuits. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 52.

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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