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  • INCOPOLITUS
    A proctor or vicar. Inoorporalia beUo non adqniruntur* Incorporeal things are not acquired by war. 6 Maule & S. 104.
  • INCORPORAMUS
    We incorporate. One of the words by which a corporation may be created in England. 1 Bl. Comm. 473; 8 Steph. Comm. .173.
  • INCORPORATE
    1. To create a corporation ; to confer a corporate franchise upon determinate persons. 2. To declare that another document shall be taken as part of the document in which the declaration is made as much as if it were set out at length therein. Railroad Co. v. Cupp, 8 More...
  • INCORPORATION
    1. The act or process of forming or creating a corporation; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation. "2. The method of making one document of any kind become a part of another separate More...
  • INCORPOREAL
    Without body; not of materia] nature; the opposite of "corporeal," (9. v.) -Incorporeal chattels. A class of incorporeal rights growing out of or incident to things personal; such as patent-rights and copyrights. 2 Steph. Comm. 72. See Boreel v. New York, 2 Sandf. (N. Y.) 559.-Incorporeal hereditaments. See HEREDITAMENTS.-Incorporeal property. More...
  • INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE
    A species of rogue or offender, described in the statutes 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, and 1 A 2 Vict c 38. 4 Steph. Comm. 309.
  • INCREASE
    (I) The produce of land; (2) the offspring of animals. -^oIncrease, affidavit of. Affidavit of payment of increased costs, produced on taxation. -Increase, costs of. In English law. It was formerly a practice with the jury to award to the successful party in an action tne nominal sum of 40s. More...
  • INCREMENTUM
    Lat. Increase or improvement, opposed to deorementum or abatement
  • INCRIMINATE
    To charge with crime; to expose to an accusation or charge of crime; to involve oneself or another in a criminal prosecution or the danger thereof; as, in the rule that a witness is not bound to give testimony which would tend to incriminate him. -Incriminating clronmstanoe. A fact or More...
  • INCROACHMENT
    An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another. See ENCROACHMENT.
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