Heedlessness; lack of attention; failure of a person to pay carefuland prudent attention to the progress of a negotiation or a proceeding in court bywhich his rights may be affected. Used chiefly

Lat. In the civil law. Building ou another’s land with one’sown materials, or on one’s own land with another’s materials.

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.

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

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

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

An uninclosed common, marked out, however, by boundaries.

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.

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

To make a building serve ns a castle. Jacob.

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

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,

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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