IN POSSE
In possibility ; not in actual existence. See IN ESSE.
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In possibility ; not in actual existence. See IN ESSE.
In the power of a parent. Inst. 1, 8, pr.; Id. 1, 9; 2 Bl. Comm. 49S.
In confirmation or attestation of the premises. A notarial phrase.In proeparatoriis ad judicium favetur actori. 2 Inst. 57. In things precedingjudgment the plaintiff is favored.
At the present time. 2 Rl. Comm. 100. Used in opposition to in futuro.See Van Wyck v. Knevals, 100 U. S. 3G0, 1 Sup. Ct. 336, 27 L. Ed. 201.In prsesentia majoris
L. Fr. In taking. A term applied to such incorporeal hereditaments as aparty entitled to them was to take for himself; such as common. 2 Steph. Comm. 23; 3 Bl. Comm. 15.In
In the first place. A phrase used in argument
At the beginning.
In readiness; at hand.In propria causa nemo judex. No onecan be judge in his own cause. 12 Coke, 13.
In one’s own proper person.In quo quis delinquit, in eo de jure est puniendus. In whatever thing one offends, in that is he rightfully to be punished. Co. Litt. 2336; Wing. Max.
In the affair; in the matter of. This is the usual method of entitling a judicial proceeding in which there are not adversary parties, but merely some res concerning which judicial action
A technical term used to designate proceedings or actions instituted against the thine, in contradistinction to personal actions, which are said to be in personam. See IN PERSONAM. It is true that,
A thing is said to lie in render when it must be rendered or given by the tenant; as rent. It is said to lie in prender when it consists in the
In the nature of things; in the realm of actuality; in existence.In a dilatory plea, an allegation that the plaintiff is not in rerum natura is equivalent toaverring that the person named
In the writing- case of the judge; among the judge’s papers.”That is a thing that rests in serinio judieis, and does not appear iu the body of thedecree.” Ilardr. 51.
In several; in severalty. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54,
Dealing with the same or a kindred subject-matter.
In simple pilgrimage. Bract, fol. 338. A phrase in the old law of essoins. See IN GENERALIPASSAGIO.
In the civil law. For the whole; as a whole. An obligation in solido is onewhere each of the several obligors is liable for the whole; that is. it is joint and
For the whole. Si plures sint fidejussores, quotquot erunt nu- mero,singuli in solidum tenentur, if there be several sureties, however numerous they may be, they are individually bound for thewhole debt. Inst.
In the soil or ground. In solo alieno, in another’s ground. In solo proprio,in one’s own ground. 2 Steph. Comm. 20.
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