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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

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

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