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Search Results for "I" INFLUENCE Authority, credit, ascendance.2. Influence is proper or improper. Proper influence is that which one person gains over another by acts of kindness and, attention, and by... more INFORMALITY The waut of those forms required by law. Informality is a good ground for a plea in abatement. Com. Dig. Abatement, H 1, 6; Lawes, Pl.... more INFORMATION An accusation or complaint made in writing to a court of competent jurisdiction, charging some person with a specific violation of some public law. It differs... more INFORMATION IN THE NATURE OF A WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO remedies. The name of a proceeding against any one who usurps a franchise or office.2. Informations of this kind are filed in the highest courts of ordinary jurisdiction... more INFORMATUS NON SUM pleading, practice. I am not informed; a formal answer made in court, or put upon record by an attorney when he has nothing to say in defence... more INFORMER A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute.2. When the informer is entitled... more INFORTIATUM civil law. The second part of the Digest or Pandects of Justinian, is called infortiatum: see Digest. This part, which commences with the third title of the... more INFRA Latin. Below, under, beneath, underneath. The opposite of supra, above. Thus we say primo gradu est supra, pater, mater; infra, filius, filia. In the first degree of... more INFRA ATATEM Under age that is, during infancy, or before arriving at the full age of twenty-one years.... more INFRA CORPUS COMITATUS Within the body of the countt.2. The common law courts have jurisdiction infra corpus comitatus; the admiralty, on the contrary, has no such jurisdiction, unless, indeed,... more INFRA DIGNITATEM CURAE Below the dignity of the court. Example, in equity a demurrer will lie to a bill on the ground of the triviality of the matter in... more INFRA HOSPITIUM Within the inn when once a traveller s baggage comes infra hospitium, that is, in the care and under the charge of the innkeeper, it is... more INFRA PRAESIDIA This term is used in relation to prizes, to signify that they have been brought completely in the power of the captors, that is, within the... more INFRACTION The breach of a law or agreement; the violation of a compact. In the French law this is the generic expression to designate all actions which... more INFUSION t or cold fluid upon a substance, whose medical properties it is desired to extract. Infusion is also used for the product of this operation. Although infusion... more INGENUI civ. law. Those freemen who were born free. Vicat, vocab.2. They were a class of freemen, distinguished from those who, born slaves, had afterwards legally obtained their... more INGRATITUDE The forgetfulness of a kindness or benefit. 2. In the civil law, ingratitude on the part of a legatee, was sufficient to defeat a legacy... more INGRESS, EGRESS AND REGRESS These words are frequently used in leases to express the right of the lessee to enter, go upon, and return from the lands in question.... more INGRESSU An ancient writ of entry, by which the plaintiff or complainant sought an entry into his lands. Techn. Dict. h. t.... more INGROSSING practice. The act of copying from a rough draft a writing in order that it may be executed; as, ingrossing a deed.... more |