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Deficient in legal form; inartificially drawn up.

Within the jurisdiction. 2 Strange, 827.

l. Applied sometimes also to the barons. INGENUUS. In Roman law. A person who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libcrtus, who, having

In old English law. Unseemly; not In due order. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 31,

Demesne or inland, opposed to delantal, or land tenanted. Cowell.

Lat. We make known. A term formerly applied to letters patent, derived from the emphatic word at the conclusion of the Latin forms. It was a species of exemplification of charters of

In old English law. An inquisition or inquest. Inquisilio post mortem, an inquisition after death. An inquest of office held, during the continuance of the military tenures, upon the death of every

In Spanish law. The presentation of a public document to a com- petent judge, in order to obtain bis approbation and sanction of the same, and thereby give it judicial authenticity. Escriche.

An “instantaneous” crime is one which is fully consummated or completed in and by a single act (such as arson or murder) as distinguished from one which Involves a series or repetition

Lat That kind of evidence which consists of writings not under seal; as court-rolls, accounts, and the like. 3 Co. Litt. 4S7.

As occasionally used in statutes prescribing the qualifications of public officers, trustees, etc., this term means soundness of moral principle and character, as shown by one person dealing with others in the

Between her arms. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 35,

Letters of inter- communing were letters from the Scotch privy council passing (on their act) in the king’s name, charging the lieges not to reset, supply, or intercommune with the persons thereby

In modern civil law. A broker; one who is employed to negotiate a matter between two parties, and who for that reason is considered as the mandatary (agent) of both. Civ. Code

A person sworn at a trial to interpret the evidence of a foreigner or a deaf and dumb person to the court. Amory v. Fellowes. 5 Mass. 220; People v. Lem Deo,

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

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

Lat. In the civil law. Things carried in and brought in. Articles brought into a hired tenement by the hirer or tenant, and which became or were pledged to the lessor as

An involuntary act is that which is performed with constraint (q. v.) or with repugnance, or without the will to do it. An action is involuntary, then, which is performed under duress.

A term applied to such an interposition of human agency as is. from its nature and power, absolutely uncontrollable: as the inroads of a hostile army. Story, Bailm.