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  • INFIDELIS
    In old English law. An infidel or heathen. In feudal law. One who violated fealty.
  • INFIDELITAS
    In feudal law. Infidelity ; faithlessness to one's feudal oath. Spelman.
  • INFIDUCIARE
    In old European law. To pledge property. Spelman.
  • INFIGHT
    Sax. An assault made on a person inhabiting the same dwelling. Infinitum in jnre reprobatnr.- That which is endless is reprobated in law. 12 Coke, 24. Applied to litigation. o
  • INFIRM
    Weak, feeble. The testimony of an "infirm" witness may be taken de bene esse in some circumstances. See 1- P. Wms. 117.
  • INFIRMATIYE
    In the law of evidence; Having the quality of diminishing force; having a tendency to weaken or render infirm. 3 Benth. Jud. Ev. 14; Best, Pres. % 217. **InnraatlTe consideration. In the law of evidence. A consideration, supposition, or hypothesis of which the criminative facts of a case admit and More...
  • INFLUENCE
    See UNDUE INFLUENCE.
  • INFORMAL
    Deficient in legal form; inartlflciaUy drawn up.
  • INFORMALITY
    Want of legal form. See State v. Galiimon, 24 N. C. 377; Franklin y. Mackey, 16 Serg. A It (Pa.) 113; Hunt v. Curry, 37 ,Ark. 108.
  • INFORMATION
    In practice. An accusation exhibited against a person for some criminal offense, without an indictment. 4 Bl. Comm. 308. An accusation in the nature of an indictment, from which it differs only in being presented by a competent public officer on his oath of office, Instead of a grand jury More...
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