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  • INFRA CIVITATEM
    Within the state. 1 Camp. 23, 24.
  • INFRA CORPUS COMITATUS
    Within the body (territorial limits) of a county. In English law, waters which are infra corpus comitatus are exempt from the jurisdiction of the admiralty.
  • INFRA DIGNITATEM CURIAE
    Beneath the dignity of the court; unworthy of die consideration of the court Where a bill In equity is brought upon a matter too trifling to deserve the attention of the court it Is demurrable, as being infra dignitatem curies.
  • INFRA FUROREM
    During madness; while in a state of insanity. Bract fol. 196,
  • INFRA HOSPITIUM
    Within the inn. When a traveler's baggage comes infra hos-pitium, i. e., in the care and under the custody of the innkeeper, the latter's liability attaches.
  • INFRA JURISDICTIONEM
    Within the jurisdiction. 2 Strange, 827.
  • INFRA LIGEANTIAM REGIS
    Within the king's ligeance. Comb. 212. 9
  • INFRA METAS
    Within the bounds or limits. Infra metas forestw, within the bounds of the forest Fleta, lib. 2, c. 41, ? 12. infra metas hospitii, within the limits of the household; within the verge. Id. lib. 2, c. 2, ? 2.
  • INFRA PRAESIDIA
    Within the protection; within the defenses. In International law, when a prize, or other captured property, is brought into a port of the captors, or within their lines, or otherwise under their complete custody, so that the chance of rescue is lost it is said to be infra prwsidia.
  • INFRA QUATUOR MARIA
    Within the four seas; within the kingdom of England; within the jurisdiction.
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