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

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.

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

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.

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.