Importations; goods or other property imported or brought into the countryfrom a foreign country.

Pressing solicitation; urgent request; application for a claim or favorwhich is urged with troublesome frequency or pertinacity. Webster.

An impost; tax; contribution. Paterson v. Society, 24 N. J. Law, 400;Singer Mfg. Co. v. Ileppenheimer, 58 N. J. Law, 033, 34 Atl. 1001, 32 L. 11. A. 643.

That which, in the constitution and course of nature or the law, noman can do or perform. See Klauber v. San Diego Street-Car. Co., 05 Cal. 353. 30 Pac.555; Reid v. Alaska

An impossible contract is one which the law will not holdbinding upon the parties, because of the natural or legal impossibility of the performanceby one party of that which is the consideration

Taxes, duties, or impositions. A duty on imported goods or merchandise.Story, Const.

In medical Jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagatingthe species. Properly used of the male; but it has also been used synonymously with”sterility.” Grif’feth v. Griff- eth, 102 111. 30S, 44 N.

A qualified property, which may subsist inanimals fcrw natural on account of their inability, as where hawks, herons, or otherbirds build in a person’s trees, or conies, etc., make their nests or

To shut up stray animals or distrained goods in a pound. Thomas v.Harries, 1 Man. & G. 703; Goodsell v. Dunning, 34 Conn. 257; Howard v. Bartlett, 70 Vt.314. 40 Atl. 825.

The state or quality of being incapable of prescription; not ofsuch a character that a right to it can be gained by prescription.

Such rights as a person may use or not, at pleasure,since they cannot be lost to him by the claims of another founded on prescription.

A “case of the first impression” is one without a precedent; onepresenting a wholly new state of facts: one involving a question never beforedetermined.

A power possessed by the English crown of taking persons or propertyto aid in the defense of the country, with or without the consent of the personsconcerned. It is usually exercised to

Money paid on enlisting or impressing soldiers or sailors.

Lat. Let it be printed. A license or allowance, granted by the constitutedauthorities, giving permission to print and publish a book. This allowance wasformerly necessary, in England, before any book could lawfully

To press upon; to impress or press; to imprint or print.

Lat. In the first place; first of all.

The act of putting or confining a man in prison ; the restraint of a man’s personal liberty; coercion exercised upon a person to prevent the free exercise of his powers of

Adherents; followers. Those who side with or take the part of another,either in his defense or otherwise.

In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of having someinstrument declared false and forged. 1 Fori). Inst. pt. 4, p. 101. The verb “improve” (q.v.) was used In the same