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  • INGENIUM
    (1) Artifice, trick, fraud; (2) an engine, machine, or device Spelman.
  • INGENUITAS
    Lat Freedom; liberty; the state or condition of one who is free. Also liberty given to a servant by manumission. -Ingennitas regnL In old English law. The Freemen, yeomanry, or commonalty of the kingdom. Cowell. Applied sometimes also to the barons.
  • INGENUUS
    In Roman law. A person who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libertus, who, having been born a slave, was afterwards manumitted or made free. It is not the same as the English law term "gvnerosus," which denoted a person not More...
  • INGRATITUDE
    In Roman law, in gratitude was accounted a sufficient cause for revoking a gift or recalling the liberty of a freedman. Such is also the law of France, with respect to the flrst case. But the English law has left the matter entirely to the moral sense.
  • INGRESS, EGRESS, AND REGRESS
    These words express the right of a lessee to enter, go upon, and return from the lands in question.
  • INGRESSU
    In English law. An ancient writ of entry" by which the plaintiff or complainant sought an entry into his lands. Abolished in 1833.
  • INGRESSUS
    In old English law. Ingress; entry The relief paid by an heir to the lord was sometimes so called. Cowell.
  • INGROSSATOR
    An engrosser. In grossator magni rotuli, engrosser of the great roll; afterwards called "clerk of the pipe." Spelman; Cowell.
  • INGROSSING
    The act of making a fair and perfect copy of any document from a rough draft of it, in order that It may be executed or put to its final purpose.
  • INHABITANT
    One who resides actually and permanently in a given place, and has his domicile there. Ex parte Shaw, 145 U. S. 444, 12 Sup. Ct. 935, 36 L. Ed. 768; The Pizarro, 2 Wheat. 245, 4 L. Ed. 226. "The words 'inhabitant,' 'citizen,' and 'resident,' as employed in different constitutions More...
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