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  • IMPIERMENT
    Impairing or prejudicing. Jacob.
  • IMPIGNORATA
    Pledged; given in pledge, (pignori data;) mortgaged. A term applied in Bracton to land. Bract fol. 20.
  • IMPIGNORATION
    The act of pawning or putting to pledge. Intpins et erudelis judioandus est qui Ubertati non favet. He is to be judged impious and cruel who does not favor liberty. Co. litt 124.
  • IMPLACITARE
    Lat. To Implead; to sue.
  • IMPLEAD
    In practice, To sue or prosecute by due course of law. People v. Clarke, 9 N. Y. 36a
  • IMPLEADED
    Sued or prosecuted; used particularly in the titles of causes where there are several defendants; as "A. B., impleaded with C. D."
  • IMPLEMENTS
    Such things as are used or employed for a trade, or furniture of a house, Coolldge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.) 82. Whatever may supply wants; particularly applied to tools, utensils, vessels, instruments of labor; as, the Implements of trade or of husbandry. Ooddard v. Chaffee, 2 Allen (Mass.) 895, More...
  • IMPLICATA
    A term used in mercantile law, derived from.the Italian. In order to avoid the risk of making fruitless voyages, merchants have been in the habit of receiving small adventures, on freight, at so much per cent, to which they are entitled at all events, even if the adventure be lost; More...
  • IMPLICATION
    Intendment or inference, as distinguished from the actual expression of a thing in words. In a will, an estate may pass by mere implication, without any express words to direct its course. 2 BL Comm. 381. An inference of something not directly declared, but arising from what is admitted or More...
  • IMPLIED
    This word is used in law as contrasted with "express;" i. e., where the Intention in regard to the subject-matter is not manifested by explicit and direct words, but is gathered by implication or necessary deduction from the circumstances, the general language, or the conduct of the parties. As to More...
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