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.

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.