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INCOME
The return in money from one's business, labor, or capital invested; gains, profit, or private revenue. Braun's Appeal, 105 Pa. 415; People v. Davenport, 30 Hun (N. Y.) 177; In re Slocum, 169 N. Y. 153, 62 N. E. 130; Waring v. Savannah, 60 Ga. 99. "Income'* means that which More...

The return in money from one's business, labor, or capital invested; gains, profit, or private revenue. Braun's Appeal, 105 Pa. 415; People v. Davenport, 30 Hun (N. Y.) 177; In re Slocum, 169 N. Y. 153, 62 N. E. 130; Waring v. Savannah, 60 Ga. 99. "Income'* means that which comes in or is received from any business or investment of capi-ital, without reference to the outgoing expenditures ; while "profits" generally means the gain which is made upon any business or investment when both receipts and payments are taken into account "Income," when applied to the affairs of individuals, expresses the same idea that "revenue" does when applied to the affairs of a state or nation. People v. Niagara County, 4 Hill JN. Y.^20; Bates v. Porter, 74 Cal. 224, 15 -Income tax. A tax on the yearly profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices. 2 Steph. Comm. 573. Levi v. Louis? ville, 97 Ky. 394, 30 S. W. 973, 28 L, It A. 480; Parker v. Insurance Co., 42 La, Ann. 42% 7 South. 599. Ineommodum non solvit argumentum* An inconvenience does not destroy an argument Less...
INCOMMUNICATION
In Spanish law. The condition of a prisoner who is not permitted to see or to speak with any person visiting him during his confinement A person accused cannot be subjected to this treatment unless it be expressly ordered by the judge, for some grave offense, and it cannot be More...

In Spanish law. The condition of a prisoner who is not permitted to see or to speak with any person visiting him during his confinement A person accused cannot be subjected to this treatment unless it be expressly ordered by the judge, for some grave offense, and it cannot be continued for a longer period than is absolutely necessary. This precaution is resorted to for the purpose of preventing the accused from knowing beforehand the testimony of the witnesses, or from attempting to corrupt them and concert such measures < as will efface the traces of his guilt As soon, therefore, as the danger of his doing so has ceased, the interdiction ceases likewise. EBcriche. Less...
INCOMMUTABLE
Not capable of or entitled to be commuted. . See COMMUTATION,

Not capable of or entitled to be commuted. . See COMMUTATION, Less...
INCOMPATIBLE
Two or more relations, offices, functions, or rights which cannot naturally, or may not legally, exist in or be exercised by the same person at the same time, are said to be incompatible. Thus, the relations of lessor and lessee of the same land, in one person at the same More...

Two or more relations, offices, functions, or rights which cannot naturally, or may not legally, exist in or be exercised by the same person at the same time, are said to be incompatible. Thus, the relations of lessor and lessee of the same land, in one person at the same time, are incompatible. So of trustee and beneficiary of the same property. See People v. Green, 46 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 170; Com. v. Sheriff 4 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 276; Regents of University of Maryland v. Williams, 9 Gill A J. (Md.) 422, 31 Am. Dec. 72. Less...
INCOMPETENCY
Lack of ability, legal qualification, or fitness to discharge the required duty. In re Leonard's Estate, 95 Mich. 295, 54 N. W. 1082; In re Conn, 78 > Y. 252; Stephenson v. Stephenson, 49 N. C. 473; Nehrling v. State, 112 Wis. 637, 88 N. W. 610. In New York, More...

Lack of ability, legal qualification, or fitness to discharge the required duty. In re Leonard's Estate, 95 Mich. 295, 54 N. W. 1082; In re Conn, 78 > Y. 252; Stephenson v. Stephenson, 49 N. C. 473; Nehrling v. State, 112 Wis. 637, 88 N. W. 610. In New York, the word "incompetency" is used in a special sense to designate the condition or legal status of a person who is unable or unfitted to manage his own affairs by reason of insanity, imbecility, or feeble-mind-edness, and for Whom, therefore, a committee may be appointed; and such a person is designated an "incompetent." See Code Civ. Proc. N. Y. | 2320 et seq.; In re Curtiss, 134 App. Div. 547, 119 N. Y. Supp. 556; In re Fox, 138 App. Div. 43, 122 N. Y. Supp. 889. As applied to evidence, the word "incompetent" means not proper to be received; inadmissible, as distinguished from that which the court should admit for the consideration of the Jury, though they may not find it worthy of credence. - In French law. Inability or insufficiency of a judge to try a cause brought before him, proceeding from lack of jurisdiction. Less...
INCONCLUSIVE
That which may be disproved or rebutted; not shutting out further proof or consideration. Applied to evidence and presumptions.

That which may be disproved or rebutted; not shutting out further proof or consideration. Applied to evidence and presumptions. Less...
INCONSISTENT
Mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other, so that both cannot stand, but the accept* ance or establishment of the one implies the abrogation or abandonment of the other; as, in speaking of "inconsistent defenses," or the repeal by a statute of "all laws inconsistent herewith." See More...

Mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other, so that both cannot stand, but the accept* ance or establishment of the one implies the abrogation or abandonment of the other; as, in speaking of "inconsistent defenses," or the repeal by a statute of "all laws inconsistent herewith." See In re Hickory Tree Road, 43 Pa. 142; Irwin v. Holbrook, 32 Wash. 349, 73 Pac. 361; Swan v. U. S., 3 Wyo. 151, 9 Pac. 931. Less...
INCONSULTO
Lat In the civil law. Unadvisedly; unintentionally. Dig. 28, 4, L

Lat In the civil law. Unadvisedly; unintentionally. Dig. 28, 4, L Less...
INCONTINENCE
Want of chastity; indulgence in unlawful carnal connection. Lucas v. Nichols, 52 N. C. 35; State v. Hewlin, 128 N. C. 571, 37 S. E. 952.

Want of chastity; indulgence in unlawful carnal connection. Lucas v. Nichols, 52 N. C. 35; State v. Hewlin, 128 N. C. 571, 37 S. E. 952. Less...
INCONVENIENCE
In the rule that statutes should be so. construed as to avoid "inconvenience," this means, as applied to the public, the sacrifice or jeoparding of important public interests or hampering the legitimate activities of government or the transaction of public business, and, as applied to individuals, serious hardship or injustice. More...

In the rule that statutes should be so. construed as to avoid "inconvenience," this means, as applied to the public, the sacrifice or jeoparding of important public interests or hampering the legitimate activities of government or the transaction of public business, and, as applied to individuals, serious hardship or injustice. See Black, Interp. Laws, 102.; Betts V. U. S., 132 Fed. 237, 65 C. C A. 452. Less...

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