Legal Term Dictionary

To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to give security for the reimbursement of a person in case of an anticipated loss falling upon him. Also to make good; to compensate; to make, reimbursement to one of a loss already incurred by him. Cousins v. Paxton & Gallagher More...

To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to give security for the reimbursement of a person in case of an anticipated loss falling upon him. Also to make good; to compensate; to make, reimbursement to one of a loss already incurred by him. Cousins v. Paxton & Gallagher Co., 122 Iowa, 465, 98 N. W. 277; Weller v. Eames, 15 Minn. 467 (Gil. 376), 2 Am. Rep. 150; Frye v. Bath Gas Co., 97. Me, 241, 54 Ati. 395, 50 L. R. A, 444, 94 Am. St. Rep. 500. Less...

Lat Without hurt harm, or damage; harmless.

Lat Without hurt harm, or damage; harmless. Less...

The person who, in a contract of indemnity, Is to be indemnified or protected by the other.

The person who, in a contract of indemnity, Is to be indemnified or protected by the other. Less...

The person who Is bound, by an Indemnity contract to Inderal nify or protect the other.

The person who Is bound, by an Indemnity contract to Inderal nify or protect the other. Less...

An indemnity Is a collateral contract or assurance, by which one person engages to secure another against an anticipated loss or to prevent him from being damnified by the legal consequences of an act or forbearance on the part of one of the parties or of some third person. See More...

An indemnity Is a collateral contract or assurance, by which one person engages to secure another against an anticipated loss or to prevent him from being damnified by the legal consequences of an act or forbearance on the part of one of the parties or of some third person. See Civ. Code CaL ? 2772, Davis v. Phoenix Ins. Co., Ill Cal. 409, 43 Pac. 1115; Vandiver v. Pollak, 107 Ala, 547, 19 South. 180, 54 Am. St Rep. 118; Henderson-Achert Lithographic Co. v. John Shiilito Co., 64 Ohio St 236, 60 N. B. 295, 83 Am. St Rep. 745. Thus, insurance is a contract of indemnity. So an indemnifying bond is given to a sheriff who fears to proceed under an execution where the property is claimed by a stranger. The term is also used to denote a compensation given to make the person whole from a loss already sustained; as where the government gives indemnity for private property taken by it for public use. A legislative act, assuring a general dispensation from punishment or exemption from prosecution to persons involved in offenses, omissions of ofilcial duty, or acts in excess of authority, Is called an indemnity; strictly it is an act of indemnity. -'Indemnity bond. A bond for the payment of a penal sum conditioned to be void if the obligor shall indemnify and save harmless the obligee against some anticipated loss or liability.-Indemnity contract. A contract between two parties whereby the one undertakes and agrees to indemnify the other against loss or damage arising from some contemplated act on the part of the indemnitor, or from some responsibility assumed by the indemnitee, or from the claim or demand of a third person, that is, to make good to him such pecuniary damage as he may suffer. See Wicker v. Hoppock, 6 Wall. 99, 18 Li Ed. 752.-Indemnity lands. Lands granted to railroads, in aid of their construction, being portions of the public domain, to be selected in lieu of other parcels embraced within the original grant, but which were lost to the railroad by previous disposition or by reservation for other purposes. See Wisconsin Cent R. Co. v. Price County, 133 U. S. 496, 10 Sup. Ct 341, 33 L. Ed. 687; Barney v. Winona A St P. R. Co., 117 U. S. 228, 6 Sup. Ct. 654, 29 LL Ed. 858; Altschul v. Clark, 39 Or. 315, 65 Pac 991. Less...

The old form of writing indemnis. Townsh. PI. 19. So, indempni-flcatua for indemnificatus.

The old form of writing indemnis. Townsh. PI. 19. So, indempni-flcatua for indemnificatus. Less...

The act of making a denizen, or of naturalizing.

The act of making a denizen, or of naturalizing. Less...

n. In American law. A certificate or indented certificate issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt Webster. See U. S. v. Irwin, 26 Fed. Cas. 546.

n. In American law. A certificate or indented certificate issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt Webster. See U. S. v. Irwin, 26 Fed. Cas. 546. Less...

v. To cut in a serrated or waving line. In old conveyancing, if a deed was made by more parties than one, it was usual to make as many copies of it as there were parties, and each was cut or indented (either in acute angles, like the teeth of More...

v. To cut in a serrated or waving line. In old conveyancing, if a deed was made by more parties than one, it was usual to make as many copies of it as there were parties, and each was cut or indented (either in acute angles, like the teeth of a saw, or in a waving line) at the top or side, to tally or correspond with the others, and the deed so made was called an "Indenture." Anciently, both parts were written on the same piece of parchment, with some word or letters written between them through which the parchment was cut, but afterwards, the word or letters being omitted, indenting came Into use, the idea of which was that the genuineness of each part might be proved by its fitting into the angles cut in the other. But at length even this was discontinued, and at present the term serves only to give name to the species of deed executed by two or more parties, as opposed to a deed-poll, (q. v.) 2 BL Comm. 295. To bind by indentures; to apprentice; as to indent a young man to a shoe-maker. Webster. Less...

A deed to which two or more persons are parties, and in which these enter into reciprocal and corresponding grants or obligations towards each other; whereas a deed-poll is properly one in which only the party making it executes it or binds himself by it as a deed, though the More...

A deed to which two or more persons are parties, and in which these enter into reciprocal and corresponding grants or obligations towards each other; whereas a deed-poll is properly one in which only the party making it executes it or binds himself by it as a deed, though the grantors or grantees therein may be several in number. 3 Washb. Real Prop. 311; Scott v. Mills, 10 N. Y. St Rep. 358; Bowen v. Beck, 94 N. Y. 89, 46 Am. Rep. 124; Hopewell Tp. v. Am-well Tp., 6 N. J. Law, 175. See INDENT, V. -Indenture of apprenticeship. A contract in two parts, by which a person, generally a minor, is bound to serve another in his trade, art or occupation for a stated time, on condition of being instructed in the same. Less...