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  • INAUGURATION
    The act of installing or inducting into office with formal ceremonies, as the coronation of a sovereign, the inauguration of a president or governor, or the consecration of a prelate.
  • INBLAURA
    In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell.
  • INBOARD
    In maritime law, and particularly with reference to the stowage of cargo, this term is contrasted with "outboard/' It does not necessarily mean under deck, but is applied to a cargo so piled or stowed that .it doeB not project over the "board" (side or rail) of the vessel. See More...
  • INBORH
    In Saxon law. A security, pledge, or hypotheca, consisting of the chattels of a person unable to obtain a personal "borg," or surety.
  • INBOUND COMMON
    An uninclosed common, marked out however, by boundaries.
  • INCAPACITY
    Want of capacity; want of power or ability to take or dispose; want of legal ability to act Elllcott v. Ellicott 90 Md. 321, 45 Atl. 183, 48 L. It A. 68; Drews' Appeal, 58 N. H. 320; Appeal of Cleveland, 72 Conn. 340, 44 Atl. 476; In re Blinn, More...
  • INCARCERATION
    Imprisonment; confinement in a Jail or penitentiary. This term is seldom used in law, though found occasionally in statutes, (Rev. St. Old. 1903, f 2068.) When so used, it appears always to mean confinement by competent public au< thority or under due legal process, whereas "imprisonment" may be effected by More...
  • INCASTELLARE
    TO make a buOding serve as a castle. Jacob.
  • INCAUSTUM, OR ENCAUSTUM
    Ink. Fleta, L 2, c 27, J 5. Ineaute faotnm pro non faoto babe-tar. A thing done unwarily (or unadvisedly) will be taken as not done. Dig. 28, 4, L
  • INCENDIARY
    A house-burner; one guilty of arson; one "who maliciously and willfully sets another person's building on lire. Inoendinm sure alieno non exult deb* ftorem. Cod. 4, 2, 11. A fire does not release a debtor from his debt.
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