A party, plaintiff or defendant, who sues out a writ or other process, orappears to conduct his case in court himself, instead of through a solicitor or counsel, issaid to act and

For pious uses; for religious purposes. 2 Bl. Comm. 505.

In mining law, rock or mineralized matter is “in place” when remaining asnature placed it, that is, unsevered from the circumjacent rock, or which is fixed solidand immovable in the form of

In full life. Yearb. P. IS Hen. VI. 2.

In full county court. 3 Rl. Comm.’ 36

In public; in common knowledge; in the light of day.In poenalibus cansis benignius inter- pretandum est. In penal causes or cases, themore favorable Interpretation should be adopted. Dig. 50. 17, (197), 155,

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.