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Category: I

INTRALIMINAL

the name applied to a mining right to minerals that lie perpendicular to the borders of the claim.

IRRATIONAL

term that means something is absurd, ridiculous, mentally unsound. A sane person suffering stress may become irrational.

INSIDER

the term that describes a director or officer of a corporation or the person with at least 10% of the stock.

INCAPACITY TOTAL

This term applies to the complete inability to work at any sort of job.

IMPLIED CONSENT

the term used when a woman does not protest her wishes enough and the man thinks she has consented to sex.

IMPLIED COERCION

where a person induces another person into doing something that he does not wants to do.

INSUBORDINATION

a word that means to have a lack of respect or the refusing to obey orders of a person in authority.

IMPLIED POWERS

This term applies to the authority that a public official has due to the nature of their duties.

IN JEOPARDY 1

1. This term applies to the person’s who is on trial. 2. part of the term double jeopardy where a person is charged for the second time for the same crime.

INEBRIATED

This term means to be under the influence of alcohol or to be intoxicated.

INDEBITATUS ASSUMPSIT

a Latin phrase for the allegation by a plaintiff that the defendant has assumed an obligation and has not paid.

INTEGRATION

a term that means a lot of people from different races are all brought together without prejudices and discriminations.

ISSUABLE DEFENSE

the term that is given to the defence that is based only on a case’s merits and calls for a verdict in favour of the defendant.

INDIRECT SOLICITATION

a situation that occurs when an attorney tries to contact a person who has had an accident. See ambulance chasing.

IMPLIED MALICE

This term is applied to acts that bear a stamp of ill will, vindictiveness, spite etc.

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