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  • INDUCTIO
    Lat In the civil law. Obliteration, by drawing the pen or stylus over the writing. Dig. 28, 4; Calvin.
  • INDUCTION
    In ecclesiastical law. Induction is the ceremony by which an incumbent who has been instituted to a benefice is vested with full possession of all the profits belonging to the church, so that he becomes seised of the temporalities of the church, and is then complete incumbent. It is performed More...
  • INDULGENCE
    In the Roman Catholic Church. A remission of the punishment due to sins, granted by the pope or church, and supposed to save the sinner from purgatory. Its abuse led to the Reformation in Germany. Wharton. Forbearance, (q. v.)
  • INDULTO
    In ecclesiastical law. A dispensation granted by the pope to do or obtain something contrary to the common law. In Spanish law. The condonation or remission of the punishment imposed on a criminal for his offense. This power is exclusively vested in the king.
  • INDUMENT
    Endowment, (q. v.)
  • INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES
    Societies formed in England for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land and also (but subject to certain restrictions) the business of banking.
  • INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
    Schools (established by voluntary contribution) in which Industrial training is provided, and in which children are lodged, clothed, and fed, as well as taught
  • INDUSTRIAM, PER
    Lat. A qualified property in animals feres natural may be acquired per industriam, i. e., by a man's re claiming and making them tame by art, industry, and ,education; or by so confining them within his own immediate power that they cannot escape and'use their natural liberty. 2 Steph. Comm. More...
  • INEBRIATE
    A person addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors; an habitual drunkard. Any person who habitually, whether continuously or periodically, indulges in the use of intoxicating liquors to such an extent as to stupefy his mind, and to render him incompetent to transact ordinary business with safety to his estate, More...
  • INELIGIBILITY
    Disqualification or legal incapacity to be elected to an office, Thus, an alien or naturalized citizen is ineligible to be elected president of the United States. Carroll v. Green, 148 Ind. 362, 47 N. E. 223; State v. Murray, 28 Wis. 99, 9 Am. Rep. 489.
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