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  • INFORMATUS NON SUM
    In practice. I am not informed. A formal answer made by the defendant's attorney in court to the effect that he has not been advised of any defense to be made to the action. Thereupon judgment by default passes.
  • INFORMER
    A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute. -Common informer. A common prosecutor. A person who habitually ferrets out crimes and Offenses and lays information thereof before the ministers of justice, in order to set a prosecution on More...
  • INFORTIATUM
    The name given by the glossators to the second of the tbr.ee parts or volumes into which the Pandects were divided. The glossators at Bologna had at first only two parts, the first called "Dkgeatum Vetua," (the old Digest,) and the last called "Digestum Novum,19 (the New Digest.) When tjiey More...
  • INFORTUNIUM, HOMICIDE PER
    Where a man doing a lawful act without intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another.
  • INFRA
    Lat. Below; underneath; within. This word occurring by itself in a book refers the reader to a subsequent part of the book, like "post." It is the opposite of "ante" and "supra," (q. v.)
  • INFRA AETATEM
    Under age; not of age. Applied to minors.
  • INFRA ANNOS NUBILES
    Under marriageable years; not yet of'marriageable age.
  • INFRA ANNUM
    Under or within a year. Bract fol. '7.
  • INFRA ANNUM LUCTUS
    (Within the year of mourning.) The phrase is used in reference to the marriage of a widow within a year after her husband's death, which was prohibited by the civil law.
  • INFRA BRACHIA
    Within her arms. Used of a husband de jure, as well as de facto. 2 Inst 817. Also inter brachia. Bract fol. 14.8b. It was in this sense that a woman could only have an appeal for murder of her husband inter brachia sua.
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