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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

INCORPOREAL

Without body ; not of material nature; the opposite of “corporeal,” (g. v.)

INCORRIGIBLE BOGUE

A species of rogue or offender, described in the statutes 5Geo. IV. c. S3, and 1 & 2 Vict c. 38. 4 Steph. Comm. 309.

INCREASE

The produce of laud; (>>) the offspring of animals.

INCREMENTUM

Lat. Increase or improvement, opposed to decrementum or abatement

INCROACHMENT

An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another. See ENCROACHMENT.

INCULPATE

To impute blame or guilt; to accuse; to involve in guilt or crime.

INCULPATORY

In the law of evidence. Going or tending to establish guilt; intendedto establish guilt; criminative. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 251, 252.

INCUMBENT

A person who is in present possession of an office; one who is legallyauthorized to discharge the duties of an office. State v. McCollister, 11 Ohio, 50; Statev. Blakemore, 104 Mo. 340,

INCUMBRANCE

Any right to, or interest in, land which may subsist in third persons,to the diminution of the value of the estate of the tenant, but consistently with thepassing of the fee. Fitch

DEED OF SEPARATION

An instrument by which, through tlie medium of some third person acting as trustee,provision is made by a husband for separation from his wife and for her separatemaintenance. Whitney v. Whitney, 15

DEED POLL

In conveyancing. A deed of one part or made by one party only; and originally so calledbecause the edge of the paper or parchment was polled or cut in a straight line,wherein

DEEM

To hold; consider; adjudge; condemn. Cory v. Spencer, 67 Kan. 048, 73 Pac.920, 63 L. R. A. 275; Blaufus v. People, 69 N. Y. Ill, 25 Am. Rep. 148; U. S. v.

DEEMSTERS

Judges in the Isle of Man, who decide all controversies without process, writings, or any charges. TheseJudges are chosen by the people, and are said by Spelman to be two in number.

DEER-HAYES

Engines or great nets made of cord to catch deer. 19 Hen. VIII. c. 11.

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