Not suitable; unfit; not suited to the character, time, and place. Palmerv. Concord, 48 N. II. 211. 97 Am. Dec. 005. Wrongful. 53 Law J. P. D. 05.

In ecclesiastical law. Commonly signifies a lay rector asopposed to a spiritual rector; just as impropriate tithes are tithes in the hands of a layowner, as opposed to appropriate tithes, which are

In ecclesiastical law. The annexing an ecclesiastical benefice tothe use of a lay person, whether individual or corporate, In the same way as appropriationis the annexing of any such benefice to the

In Scotch law. To disprove ; to invalidate or impeach; to prove false orforged. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 4, p. 102.To improve a lease means to grant a lease of unusual duration

A valuable addition made to property (usually real estate) or an amelioration in its condition, amounting to more than mere repairs or replacement of waste, costing labor or capital, and intended to

A term used in leases, of doubtful meaning. It would seem toapply principally to buildings, though generally it extends to the amelioration of everydescription of property, whether real or personal; but, when

as used in a statute excluding one found incompetent to executethe duties of an administrator by reason of improvidence, means that want of care andforesight in the management of property which would

A judgment, decree, rule, Injunction, etc., when given or renderedwithout adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as toall the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a mistaken assumption or

In old records. To improve land. Impruiaincntum, the improvement so made of it. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. A minor under the age of puberty; a male underfourteen years of age; a female under twelve. Calvin; Mackeld. Rom. Law,

As to “irresistible” or “uncontrollable” impulse, see INSANITY.Impunitas continuum affectum tribuit delinquendi. 4 Coke, 45. Impunity confirmsthe disposition to commit crime.Impunities semper ad deteriora invi- tat. 5 Coke, 109. Impunity always invites

Exemption or protection from penalty or punishment. Dillon v. Rogers,30 Tex. 153.

In the civil law. The application of a payment made by a debtor to his creditor.

As used in legal phrases, this word means attributed vicariously; that is,an act, fac-f, or quality is said to be “imputed” to a person when it is ascribed orcharged to him, not

Attainable or recoverable by action; not in possession. A term applied toproperty of which a party has not the possession, but only 5 right to recover it byaction. Things in action are

Against an adverse, unwilling, or resisting party. “A decree not byconsent, but in adversum.” 3 Story, 318.In cedificiis lapis male positus non est removendus. 11 Coke, G9. A stone badlyplaced in buildings

In equal hand. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 14.

In equal right; on an equality in point of right.In sequali jure melior est conditio possidentis. In Ta case of] equal right thecondition of the party in i>ossession is the better. Plowd.

In equal hand; held equally or indifferently between two parties.Where an instrument was deposited by the parties to it in the hands of a thirdperson, to keep on certain conditions, it was

In another’s land 2 Steph. Comm. 20.