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

A name sometimes given to text-books containing the elementary principles of jurisprudence, arranged in an orderly and systematic manner. For example, the Institutes of Justinian, of Gaius, of Lord Coke.

The underwriter or insurance company with whom a contract of insurance is made. The person who undertakes to indemnify another by a contract of insurance is called the “insurer,” and the person

Lat In the civil law. The formal complaint or claim of a plaintiff before the prtetor. In old English law. A count or declaration iu a real action, (narratio.) Bract, lib. 4,

Among themselves. Story, Partn.

n old practice. To link together, or interchangeably. Writs were called “interlaqueata” where several were issued against several parties residing in different counties, each party being summoned by a separate writ to

1. A plea by which a person sued in respect to property disclaims any interest in it and demands that rival claimants shall litigate their titles between themselves and relieve him from

Lat. A witness incompetent to testify. Calvin.

Within the defenses. See INFBA PB^SIDIA.

Use; user; service to the use or benefit of a person. Dickerson v. Colgrove, 100 U. S. 5S3, 25 L. Ed. 018. Iiiutilis labor ct sine fructu non est effectus legis. Useless

The fact by means of which a right comes into existence; e. g., a grant of a monopoly, the death of one’s ancestor. Holl. Jur. 132.

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.

Men contract debts ; they incur liabilities. Iu the one case, they act affirmatively; in the other, the liability is incurred or cast upon them by act or operation oflaw. “Incur” means

The old form of writing indemnis. Townsh. PI. 19. So, indempni- ficatus for indemnificatus.

Signs; indications. Circumstances which point to the existence of a given fact as probable, but not certain. For example, “indicia of partnership” are any circumstances which would induce the belief that a

As a noun, this term denotes a single person as distinguished from a group or class, and also, very commonly, a private or natural person as distinguished from a partnership, corporation, or

INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES. Societies formed in England for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land and also (but subject to certain

A person within age, not of age, or not of full age; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Co. Litt. 171 b; 1 Bl. Comm. 403-10G; 2 Kent,