See DIRECTORY.

Emperor. The title of the Roman emperors, and also of the Kings ofEngland before the Norman conquest. Cod. 1, 14, 12; 1 Bl. Comm. 242. See EMPEROR.

As used in various legal compound terms, this word means defective orincomplete; wanting in some legal or formal requisite; wanting in legal sanction oreffectiveness; as in speaking of imperfect “obligations,” “ownership,” “rights,”

Lat. Unskillfulness; want of skill.Imperitia culpa! adnumeratur. Want of skill is reckoned as culpa; that is, as blamableconduct or neglect. Dig. 50, 17, 132.Imperitia est maxima mechanicorum poena. Unskillfulness is the greatest

The right to command, which includes the right to employ the force ofthe state to enforce the laws. This is one of the principal attributes of the power of theexecutive. 1 Toullier,

Lit. Impersonality. A mode of expression where no reference ismade to any person, such as the expression “ut dieit ur,” (as is said.) Co. Litt. 3526.Impersonalitas non concludit nec ligat. Co. Litt.

Irrelevancy; the fault of not properly pertaining to the issue orproceeding. The introduction of any matters into a bill, answer, or other pleading orproceeding in a suit, which are not properly before

In old records. To impeach or accuse. Impescatus, impeached. Blount.

Impeachment of waste, (q. v.)

In old English practice. To obtain by request, as a writ or privilege.Bract, fols. 57, 1726. This application of the word seems to be derived from the civillaw. Calvin.

Umpire, (q. v.)

Impairing or prejudicing. Jacob.

Pledged; given In pledge, (pignori data;) mortgaged. A term appliedin Bracton to land. Bract, fol. 20.

Lat To implead; to sue.

In practice. To sue or pros ecute by due course of law. People v. Clarke, 9N. Y. 368.

Sued or prosecuted; used particularly in the titles of causes wherethere are several defendants; as “A. B., impleaded with C. D.”

Such things as are used or employed for a trade, or furniture of ahouse. Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.)Whatever may supply wants; particularly applied to tools, utensils, vessels,instruments of labor; as,

A term used in mercantile law, derived from the Italian. In order toavoid the risk of making fruitless voyages, merchants have been in the habit of receivingsmall adventures, on freight, at so

Intendment or inference, as distinguished from the actual expressionof a thing in words. In a will, an estate may pass by mere implication, without anyexpress words to direct its course. 2 Bl.

The act of bringing goods and merchandise into a country from a foreign country.