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  • INCULPATE
    To impute blame or guilt; to accuse; to involve in guilt or crime.
  • INCULPATORY
    In the law of evidence. Going or tending to establish guilt; intended to establish guilt; criminative. Burrill, Clrc. Ev. 251, 252.
  • INCUMBENT
    A person who is in present possession of an office; one who is legally authorized to discharge the duties of an office. State v. McCollister, 11 Ohio, 50; gtate v. Blakemore, 104 Mo. 840, 15 S. W. 960. In ecclesiastical law, the term signifies a clergyman who is in possession More...
  • INCUMBER
    To incumber land Is to niake it subject to a charge or liability; e. g., by mortgaging it. Incumbrances include not only mortgages and other voluntary charges, but also liens, lites pendente, registered judgments, and writs of execution, etc. Sweet See Newhall v. Insurance Co., 52 Me 181.
  • INCUMBRANCE
    Any right to, or interest in, land which may subsist in third persons, to the diminution of the value of the estate of the tenant, but consistently with the passing of the fee. Fitch v. Seymour, 9 Mete. (Mass.) 467; Huyck v. Andrews, 118 N. Y. 81, 20 N. E. More...
  • INCUMBRANCER
    The holder of an incumbrance, e. g., a mortgage, on the estate of another. De Voe v. Rundle, 33 Wash. 604, 74 Pac 836; Shaeffer v. Weed, 8 111. 514; Newhall v. Insurance Co., 52 Me 181.
  • INCUR
    Men contract debts; they incur liabilities. In the one case, they act affirmatively ; in the other, the liability is incurred or cast upon them by act or operation of law. "Incur" means something beyond contracts, -something not embraced in the word "debts." Crandall v. Bryan, 5 Abb. Prac. (N. More...
  • INCURRAMENTUM
    L. Lat. The liability to a fine, penalty, or amercement. CowelL
  • INDE
    Lat. Thence; thenceforth; thereof; thereupon; for that cause. Inde data leges ne fortlor omnia posset. Laws are made to prevent the stronger from having the power to do everything. Dav. Ir. K. B. 36.
  • INDEBITATUS
    Lat. Indebted. Nunquam indebitatus, never indebted. The title of the plea substituted in England for nU debet -Indebitatus assumpsit. Lat Being indebted, he promised or undertook. 'This is the name of that form of the action of assumpsit in which the declaration alleges a debt or ob ligation to be More...
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