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INAUGURATION

The act of installing or inducting into office with formal ceremonies,as the coronation of a sovereign, the inauguration of a president or governor,or the consecration of a prelate.

INBLAURA

In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell.

INBOARD

In maritime law, and particularly with reference to the stowage of cargo, this term is contrasted with “outboard.” It does not necessarily mean under deck, but is applied to a cargo so

INBORH

In Saxon law. A security, pledge, or hypotheca, consisting of the chattelsof a person unable to obtain a personal “borg,” or surety.

INCAPACITY

Want of capacity; want of power or ability to take or dispose; want oflegal ability to act. Ellicott v. Ellieott, 90 Md. 321, 45 Atl. 183, 48 L. R. A. 58: Drews’Appeal.

INCARCERATION

Imprisonment; confinement in a jail or penitentiary. This term isseldom used in law, though found occasionally in statutes, (Rev. St. Okl. 1903,

INCENDIARY

A house-burner; one guilty of arson; one who maliciously and willfullysets another person’s building on fire.Incendinm sere alieno non exuit debitor em. Cod. 4, 2, 11. A fire does not release a

INCEPTION

Commencement; opening; initiation. The beginning of the operation ofa contract or will, or of a note, mortgage, lien, etc.; the beginning of a cause or suit iucourt. Oriental Hotel Co. v. Griffiths,

INCH

A measure of length, containing one-twelfth part of a foot; originally supposed equal to three barleycorns.

INCHARTARE

To give, or grant, and assure anything by a written instrument.

INCHOATE

Imperfect; unfinished; begun, but not completed; as a contract not executed by all the parties.

INCIDENT

This word, used as a noun, denotes anything which inseparably belongsto, or is connected with, or inherent iu, another thing, called the “principal.” In thissense, a court-baron is incident to a manor.

INCIDERE

Lat In the civil and old J English law. To fall into. Calvin.To fall out; to happen; to come to pass. Calvin.To fall upon or under; to become subject or liable to.

INCILE

Lat. In the civil law. A trench. A place sunk by the side of a stream, socalled because it is cut (incidatur) into or through the stone or earth. Dig. 43. 21.

INCINERATION

Burning to ashes ; destruction of a substance by fire, as, the corpse of a murdered person.

INCIPITUR

Lat. It is begun; it begins. In old practice, when the pleadings in anaction at law, instead of being recited at large on the Issue-roll, were set out merely bytheir commencements, this

INCISED WOUND

In medical jurisprudence. A cut or incision on a human body; awound made by a cutting instrument, such as a razor. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 003; Wliart & S. Med. Jur.

INCITE

To arouse; stir up; instigate; sec in motion; as, to “incite” a riot. Also, generally, in criminal law to instigate, persuade,or move another to commit a crime; iu this sense nearly synonymous

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