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  • INFANGENTHEF
    In old English law. A privilege of lords of certain manors to judge any thief taken within their fee.
  • INFANS
    Lat. In the civil law. A child under the age of seven years; so called "quasi impos fandi," (as not having the faculty of speech.) Cod. Theodos, 8, 18, 8. Infans non mnltum a farioso distat. An infant does not differ much from a lunatic. Bract. 1. 8, c. 2, More...
  • INFANT
    A person within age, not of age, or not of full age; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Co.'Litt. 171b; 1 Bl. Comm. 463-466; 2 Kent Comm. 233.
  • INFANTIA
    Lat. In the civil law. The period of infancy between birth and the age of seven years. Calvin.
  • INFANTICIDE
    The murder or killing of an infant soon after its birth. The fact of the birth distinguishes this act from "foeticide" or "procuring abortion," which terms denote the destruction of the foetus in the womb.
  • INFANTS' MARRIAGE ACT
    The statute 18 & 19 Vict. c. 43. By virtue of this act every infant, (if a male, of twenty, or, if a female, of seventeen, years,-section 4,) upon or in contemplation of marriage, may, with the sanction of the chancery division of the high court, make a valid settlement More...
  • INFANZON
    In Spanish law. A person of noble birth, who exercises within his domains and inheritance no other rights and privileges than those conceded to him. Es-criche.
  • INFECTION
    In medical jurisprudence. The transmission of disease or disease germs from one person to another, either directly by contact with morbidly affected surfaces, or more remotely through inhalation, absorption of food or liquid tainted with ex-cremental matter, contact with contaminated clothing or bedding, or other agencies. A distinction is sometimes More...
  • INFEFT
    In Scotch law. To give seisin or possession of lands; to invest or enfeoff., 1 Karnes, Eq. 215.
  • INFEFTMENT
    In old Scotch law. Investiture or infeudation, including both charter and seisin. . 1 Forb. Inst pt. 2, p. "110. . :" In later law. Saisine, or the instrument of possession. Bell.
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