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  • INDEPENDENCE
    The state or condition of being free from dependence, subjection, or control. Political Independence is the attribute of a nation or state which is entirely autonomous, and not subject to the government, control, or dictation of any exterior power.
  • INDEPENDENT
    Not dependent; not subject to control, restriction, modification, or limitation from a given outside source. -Independent contract. See CONTRACT.-Independent contractor. In the law of agency and of master and servant, an independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his More...
  • INDETERMINATE
    That which is uncertain, or not particularly designated; as if I sell you one hundred bushels of wheat, without stating what wheat 1 Bouv. Inst, no. 960.
  • INDEX
    A book containing references, alphabetically arranged, to the contents of a series or collection of volumes; or an addition to a single volume or set of volumes containing such references to its contents. Index animi lerao. Language is the exponent of the intention. The language of a statute or instrument More...
  • INDIANS
    The aboriginal inhabitants of North America. Frazee v. Spokane County, 29 Wash. 278, 69 Pac. 782. -Indian country. This term does not necessarily import territory owned and occupied by Indians, but it means all those portions of the United States'designated by this name in the legislation of congress. Waters v. More...
  • INDICARE
    Lat. in the civil law. To show or discover. To fix or tell the price of a thing. Calvin. To inform against; to accuse.
  • INDICATIF
    An abolished writ by which a prosecution was in some cases removed from a court-christian to the queen's bench. Enc. Lond.
  • INDICATION
    In the law of evidence. A sign or token; a fact pointing to some inference or conclusion. Burrill, Clrc. Ev. 251, 252, 263, 275.
  • INDICATIVE EVIDENCE
    This is not evidence properly so called, but the mere suggestion of evidence proper, which may possibly be procured if the suggestion is followed up. Brown.
  • INDICAVIT
    In English practice. A writ of prohibition that lies for a patron of a church, whose clerk is sued in the spiritual court by the clerk of another patron, for tithes amounting to a fourth part of the value of the living. 3 Bl. Comm. 91; 3 Steph. Comm. 711. More...
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