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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

The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the ad- ministration or introduction into the human system of a poison. But in its popular use this term is restricted to alcoholic

In French ecclesiastical law. Enthronement. The installation of a bishop in his episcopal see.

In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriving and producing something uot previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment.

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

The operation of watering lands for agricultural purposes by artificial means.

Lat. Repetition. In the Roman law, a bonitary owner might liberate a slave, and the quiritary owner’s repetition (iteratio) of the process effected a complete manumission. Brown.

the creditor, without specifying to which of the debts he means the payment to be applied. See Bell. Indefinitum sequipollet universal!. The undefined is equivalent to the whole. 1 Vent 308. Indefinitum

That which is uncertain, or not particularly designated; as if I sell you one hundred bushels of wheat, without stating what wheat 1 Bouv. Inst, no. 950.

In old English law. A subject born; one born within tbe realm, or naturalized by act of parliament Co. Litt 8a. The opposite of “alieniyena,” (q. v.)

In contracts. The benefit or advantage which the promisor is to receive from a contract is the inducement for making it. In criminal evidence. Motive; that which leads or tempts to the

Lat Infamy; ignominy or disgrace. By infamia juris is meant infamy established by law as the consequence of crime; in- famia facti is where the party is supposed to be guilty of

In the law of evidence. A truth or proposition drawn from another which is supposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to

In practice. I am not informed. A formal answer made by the defendant’s attorney in court to the effect that he has not been advised of any defense to be made to

3ESIDIA. Within the protection ; within the defenses. In international law, wheu a prize, or other captured property, is brought into a port of the captors, or within their lines, or otherwise

In English law. An ancient writ of entry, by which the plaintiff or complainant sought an entry into his lands. Abolished in 1833.

That which begins or stands at the beginning. The first letter of a man’s name. See Elberson v. Richards, 42 N. J. Law, 70.

In old English law. Entangled, or ensnared. 2 Inst. 247; Cowell; Blount

So called because anciently inhabited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursitors, who were officers of the court of chancery. There are nine

A form of “enroll,” used in the old books. 3 Rep. Ch. 63, 73; 3 East, 410.