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INCIVILE

Lat. Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law.Incivile est, nisi tota lege perspecta, una aliqua particula ejus proposita, ju- dicarc,vel respondere. It is improper, without looking at the whole of

INCIVISM

Unfriendliness to the state or government of which one is a citizen.

INCLAUSA

In old records. A home close or inclosure near the house. Paroch. Autiip 31; Cowell.

INCLOSE

To shut up. “To inclose a jury,” in Scotch practice, is to shut them up in a room by themselves. Bell. See Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Harris, 2S Kau. 210; Campbell v.Gilbert,

INCLOSED LANDS

Lands which are actually inclosed and surrounded with fences.Tapsell v. Crosskey, 7 Mees. & W. 410; Kimball v. Carter, 05 Va. 77, 27 S. E. S23, 38 L.R. A. 570; Daniels v.

INCLOSURE

In English law. Inclosure is the act of freeing land from rights ofcommon, commonable rights, and generally all rights which obstruct cultivation and theproductive employment of labor on the soil.Also, an artificial

INCLUSIVE

Embraced; comprehended; comprehending the stated limits or extremes. Opposed to “exclusive.”

INCOLA

Lat In the civil law. An inhabitant ; a dweller or resident. Properly, one whohas transferred his domicile to auy country.Incolas domicilium facit. Residence creates domicile. Arnold v. United Ins. Co., 1Johns.

INCOME

The return in money from one’s business, labor, or capital invested; gains,profit, or private revenue. Braun’s Appeal, 105 Pa. 415; People v. Davenport, 30 llun (N.Y.) 177; In re Slocum, 109 N.

INCOMMUNICATION

In Spanish law. The condition of a prisoner who is not permittedto see or to speak with auy person visiting him during his confinement. A personaccused cannot be subjected to this treatment

INCOMMUTABLE

Not capable of or entitled to be commuted. See COMMUTATION.

INCOMPATIBLE

Two or more relations, offices, functions, or rights which cannotnaturally, or may not legally, exist in or be exercised by tlie same person at the sametime, are said to be incompatible. Thus,

INCONCLUSIVE

That which may be disproved or rebutted; not shutting out furtherproof or consideration. Applied to evidence and presumptions.

INCONSISTENT

Mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other.so that both cannot stand, but the acceptance or establishment of the one implies theabrogation or abandonment of the other; as, in speaking

INCONSULTO

Lat In the civil law. Unadvisedly; unintentionally. Dig. 28, 4, 1.

INCONTINENCE

Want of chastity; Indulgence in unlawful carnal connection. Lucasv. Nichols, 52 N. C. 35; State v. Ilewlin, 128 X. C. 571, 37 S. E. 952.

INCONVENIENCE

In the rule that statutes should be so construed as to avoid”inconvenience,” this means, as applied to the public, the sacrifice or jeoparding ofimportant public interests or hampering the legitimate activities of

INCOPOLITUS

A proctor or vicar. Incorporalia bello non adquirnntur.Incorporeal tilings are not acquired by war. 0 Maule & S. 104.

INCORPORATE

1. To create a corporation ; to confer a corporate franchise upondeterminate persons.2. To declare that another document shall be taken as part of the document iuwhich the declaration is made as

INCORPORATION

1. The act or process of forming or creating a corporation; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act

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