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  • IDIOCY
    See INSANITY.
  • IDIOT
    A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whom the law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any. Shelf. Lun. 2. See INSANITY.
  • IDIOTA
    In' tbe civil law. An unlearned, illiterate, or simple person. Calvin. A private man; one not in office. In common law. An idiot or fool.
  • IDIOTA INQUIRENDO, WRIT DE
    This is the name of an old writ which directs the sheriff to inquire whether a man be an idiot or not. The inquisition is to be made by a Jury of twelve men. Fltzb. Nat Brev. 232* >Jand, if the man were found an idiot, the profits of his More...
  • IDONEUM SE FACERE; IDONEARESE
    To purge one's self by oath of a crime of which one is accused.
  • IDONEUS
    Lat. In the civil and common law. Sufficient; competent; fit or proper; responsible; unimpeachable, /do-ncus homo, a responsible or solvent person; a good and lawful man. Sufficient; adequate; satisfactory. Idonea cautio, sufficient security.
  • IDONIETAS
    In old English law. Ability or fitness, (of a parson.) Artie. Cleri, c 13.
  • IF
    In deeds and wills, this word, as a rule, implies a condition precedent, unless it be controlled by other words. 2 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 800, ? 2152; Sutton v. West, 77 N. C. 431.
  • IFUNGIA
    In old English law. The finest white bread, formerly called "cocked bread." Blount
  • IGLISE
    L. Fr. A church. Kelham. Another form of "eglise."
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