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  • IMPROVEMENTS
    A term used in leases, of doubtful meaning. It would seem to apply principally to buildings, though generally it extends to the amelioration of every description of property, whether real or personal; but, when contained in any document, its meaning is generally explained by other words. 1 Chit Gen. Pr. More...
  • IMPROVIDENCE
    as used in a statute excluding one found Incompetent to execute the duties of an administrator by reason of improvidence, means that want of care and foresight in the management of property which would be likely to render the estate and effects of the intestate unsafe, and liable to be More...
  • IMPROVIDENTLY
    A judgment, decree, rule, injunction, etc., when given or rendered without adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as to all the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a mistaken assumption or misleading information or advice, is sometimes said to have been "improvidently" given or issued.
  • IMPRUIARE
    In old records. To improve land. Impruiamentum, the improvement so made of it Cowell.
  • IMPUBES
    Lat In the civil law. A minor under the age of puberty; a male under fourteen years of age; a female under twelve. Calvin; Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 188.
  • IMPULSE
    As to "irresistible" or "uncontrollable" impulse, see INSANITY. Impnnitas continuum affectum trlbuit delinauendi. 4 Coke, 45. Impunity confirms the disposition to commit crime. Impunities semper ad deteriora latitat. 5 Coke, 109. Impunity always invitee to greater crimes.
  • IMPUNITY
    Exemption or protection, from penalty or punishment Dillon v. Rogers, 36 Tex. 153.
  • IMPUTATIO
    Lat In the civil law. Legal liability.
  • IMPUTATION OP PAYMENT
    In the civil law. The application of a payment made by a debtor to his creditor.
  • IMPUTED
    As used in legal phrases, this word means attributed vicariously; that is, an act, fact, or quality is said to be "imputed" to a person when it is ascribed or charged to him, not because he is personally cognizant of it or responsible for it, but because another person is, More...
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