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  • IMPORTATION
    The act of bringing goods and merchandise into a country from a foreign country.
  • IMPORTS
    Importations; goods or other property imported or brought into the country from a foreign country.
  • IMPORTUNITY
    Pressing solicitation; urgent request; application for a claim or favor which is urged with troublesome frequency or pertinacity. Webster.
  • IMPOSITION
    An impost; tax; contribution. Paterson v. Society, 24 N. J. Law, 400; Singer Mfg. Co. v. Heppenheimer, 58 N. J. Law, 633, 34 Ati. 1061, 32 L. R. A. 643.
  • IMPOSSIBILITY
    That which, in the constitution and course of nature or the law, no man can do or perform. See Klauber v. San Diego Street-Car. Co., 95 Cal. 353, 30 Pac. 555; Reid v. Alaska Packing Co., 43 Or. 429, 73 Pac. 337. Impossibility is of the following several sorts: An More...
  • IMPOSSIBLE CONTRACTS
    An impossible contract is one which the law will not hold binding upon the parties, because of the natural or legal impossibility of the performance by one party of that which is the consideration for the promise of the other. 7 Wait, Act A Def. 124. Impossible contracts, which will More...
  • IMPOSTS
    Taxes, duties, or impositions. A duty on imported goods or merchandise. Story, Const. ? 949. And see Norris v. Boston, 4 Mete. (Mass.) 296; Pacific Ins. Co. v. Soule, 7 WalL 435, 19 L" Ed. 95; Woodruff v. Parham, 8 Wall. 131, 19 L. Ed. 382; Dooley v. U. S., More...
  • IMPOTENCE
    In medical jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the species. Properly used of the male; but it has also been used synonymously with "sterility." Griffeth v. Griffeth, 162 111. 368, 44 N. E. 820; Payne v. Payne, 46 Minn. 467, 49 N. W. 230, 24 Am. St Rep. 240; More...
  • IMPOTENTIAM, PROPERTY PROPTER
    A qualified property, which may subsist in animals feres natures on account of their inability, as where hawks, herons, or other birds build in a person's trees, or conies, etc., make their nests or burrows in a person's land, and have young there, such person has a qualified property in More...
  • IMPOUND
    To shut up stray animals or distrained goods in a pound. Thomas v. Harries, 1 Man. A G. 703; Goodsell v. Dunning, 34 Conn. 257; Howard v. Bartlett, 70 Vt 314. 40 Atl. 825. To take Into the custody of the law or of a court Thus, a court will More...
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