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IN INDIVIDUO

In the distinct, identical, or individual form; in specie. Story, Bailm.

IN INFINITUM

Infinitely; Indefinitely. Imports indefiuite succession or continuance.

IN INITIALIBUS

In the preliminaries. A term in Scotch practice, applied to thepreliminary examination of a witness as to the following points: Whether he knows theparties, or bears ill will to either of them,

IN INITIO

In or at the beginning. In initio litis, at the beginning, or in the first stageof the suit. Bract, fol. 400.

IN INVITUM

Against an unwilling party; against one not assenting. A term appliedto proceedings against an adverse party, to which he does not consent.

IN IPSIS FAUCIBUS

In thevery throat or entrance. In ipsis faueibus of a port, actually entering a port 1 C. Rob. Adm. 233, 234.

IN ITINERE

In eyre; on a journey or circuit. In old English law, the justices initinere (or in eyre) were those who made a circuit through the kingdom once in sevenyears for the purposes

IN JUDGMENT

In a court of justice; in a seat of judgment. Lord Hale is called “oneof the greatest and best men who ever sat in judgment” 1 East 306.In judiciis, minori setati succurritur.In

IN JUDICIO

In Roman law. In tlie course of an actual trial; before a judge, (judex.)A cause, during its preparatory stages, conducted before the piwtor, was said to be injure; in its second stage,

IN JURE

In law; according to law. In the Roman practice, the procedure in anaction was divided into two stages. The first was said to be in jure; it took place beforethe prsetor, and

IN JUS VOCARE

To call, cite, or summon to court. Inst. 4, 10. 3; Calvin. In jusvocando, summoning to court. 3 Bl. Comm. 279.

IN KIND

In the same kind, class, or genus. A loan is returned “in kind” when notthe identical article, but one corresponding and equivalent to it, is given to the lender.See IN GENEUE.

IN LAW

In the intendment, contemplation. or inference of the law; implied orinferred by law; existing in law or by force of law. See IN FACT.

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