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Confusion of goods; the confusing or mingling together of goods belonging to different owners in such a way that the property of neither owner can be separately identified or extracted from the
INTERRUPTIO. Lat. Interruption. A term used both in the civil aud common law of prescription. Calvin. Interruptio multiplex non tollit prse- ?criptionem semel obtentam. 2 Inst. 654. Frequent interruption does not take
Within belief; credible. Calvin.
In the law of divorce, this term denotes extreme cruelty, cruel and inhuman treatment, barbarous, savage, and inhuman conduct, and is equivalent to any of those phrases. Shaw v. Shaw, 17 Conn.
To make proof of a thing. Jacob.
Violation or nonob- servance of established rules and practices. The want of adherence to some prescribed rule or mode of proceeding; consisting either in omitting to do something that is necessary for
Lat. The cog- nizor in a fine. Is cui coynoscitur, the cog- nizee.
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
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