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  • INCISED WOUND
    In medical jurisprudence. A cut or incision on a human body; a wound made by a cutting instrument such as a razor. Burrill, Circ Ev. 693; Whart & S. Med. Jur. | 808.
  • INCITE
    To arouse; stir up; instigate; set in motion; as, to "incite" a riot Also, generally, in criminal law to instigate, persuade, or move another to commit a crime; in this sense nearly synonymous with "abet" See Long v. State, 23 Neb. 33, 36 N. W. 310.
  • INCIVILE
    Lat Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law. Incivlle est, nisi tota lege perspeota, una alioua partieula ejus proposita, ju-dieare, vol respondere. It is improper, without looking at the whole of a law, to give judgment or advice, upon a view of any one clause of it Dig. More...
  • INCIVISM
    Unfriendliness to the state or government of which one is a citizen.
  • INCLAUSA
    In old records. A home close or inclosure near the house. Paroch. Antiq. 31; CowelL
  • INCLOSE
    To shut up. "To inclose a jury," in Scotch practice, is to shut them up in a room by themselves. Bell. See Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Harris, 28 Kan. 210; Campbell v. Gilbert, 57 Ala. 569.
  • INCLOSED LANDS
    Lands which are actually inclosed and surrounded with fences. Tapsell v. Crosskey, 7 Mees. & W. 446; Kimball v. Carter, 95 Va. 77, 27 S. E. 823, 38 L. R. A. 570; Daniels v. State, 91 Ga. 1, 16 S. E. 97. See Haynie v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 75 More...
  • INCLOSURE
    In English law. Inclosure is the act of freeing land from rights of common, commonable rights, and generally all rights which obstruct cultivation and the productive employment of labor on the soil. Also, an artificial fence around one's estate. Porter v. Aldrich, 39 Vt 330; Taylor v. .Welbey, 36 Wis. More...
  • INCLUSIVE
    Embraced; comprehended; comprehending the stated limits or extremes. Opposed to "exclusive." -Inclusive surrey. In land law, one which includes within its boundaries prior claims excepted from the computation of the area within such boundaries and excepted in the grant Stockton v. Morris, 39 W. Va. 432, 19 S. E. 53L
  • INCOLA
    Lat In the civil law. An inhabitant; a dweller or resident Properly, one who has transferred his domicile to any country. Incolas domidlium faoit. Residence creates domicile. Arnold v. United Ins. Co* 1 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 363, 366.
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