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INNOMINATE
In the civil law. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class; ranking under a general head. A term applied to those contracts for which no certain or precise remedy was appointed, but a general action on the case only. Dig. 2, 1, 4, 7, 2; Id. 19, 4, More...

In the civil law. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class; ranking under a general head. A term applied to those contracts for which no certain or precise remedy was appointed, but a general action on the case only. Dig. 2, 1, 4, 7, 2; Id. 19, 4, 5. -Innominate contracts, literally, are the "unclassified" contracts of Roman law. They are contracts which are neither re, verbis, liter-is, nor consensu simply, but some mixture of or variation upon two or more of such contracts. They are principally the contracts of permutatio, de wstunato, precarium, and transaction Brown. Less...
INNONIA
In old English law. A close or inclosure, (clausum, inclausura.) Spelman.

In old English law. A close or inclosure, (clausum, inclausura.) Spelman. Less...
INNOTESCIMUS
Lat. We make known. A term formerly applied to letters patent, derived from the emphatic word at the conclusion of the Latin forms. It was a species of exemplification of charters of feoffment or other instruments not of record. 5 Coke, 54a.

Lat. We make known. A term formerly applied to letters patent, derived from the emphatic word at the conclusion of the Latin forms. It was a species of exemplification of charters of feoffment or other instruments not of record. 5 Coke, 54a. Less...
INNOVATION
In Scotch law. The exchange of one obligation for another, so as to make the second obligation come in the place of the flrst, and be the only subsisting obligation against the debtor. Bell. The same with "novation," (q. v.)

In Scotch law. The exchange of one obligation for another, so as to make the second obligation come in the place of the flrst, and be the only subsisting obligation against the debtor. Bell. The same with "novation," (q. v.) Less...
INNOXIARE
In old English law. To purge one of a fault and make him Innocent.

In old English law. To purge one of a fault and make him Innocent. Less...
INNS OF CHANCERY
So called because anciently inhabited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursltors, who were officers of the court of chancery. There are nine of them,-Clement's, Clifford's, and Lyon's Inn; Furnival's, Thavies,' and Sy-mond's Inn; New Inn; and Barnard's and Staples' Inn. More...

So called because anciently inhabited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursltors, who were officers of the court of chancery. There are nine of them,-Clement's, Clifford's, and Lyon's Inn; Furnival's, Thavies,' and Sy-mond's Inn; New Inn; and Barnard's and Staples' Inn. These were formerly preparatory colleges for students, and many entered them before they were admitted into the inns of court. They consist chiefly of solicitors, and possess corporate property, hall, chambers, etc., but perform no public functions like the inns of court Wharton. Less...
INNS OF COURT
These are certain private unincorporated associations, in the nature of collegiate houses, located iu London, and invested with the exclusive privilege of calling men to the bar; that is, conferring the rank or degree of a barrister. They were founded probably about the beginning of the fourteenth century. The principal More...

These are certain private unincorporated associations, in the nature of collegiate houses, located iu London, and invested with the exclusive privilege of calling men to the bar; that is, conferring the rank or degree of a barrister. They were founded probably about the beginning of the fourteenth century. The principal inns of court are the Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn. (The two former originally belonged to the Knights Templar; the two latter to the earls of Lincoln and Gray respectively.) These bodies now have a "common council of legal education," for giving lectures and holding examinations. The inns of chancery, distinguishable from the foregoing, but generally classed with them under the general name, are the buildings known as "Clifford's Inn," "Clement's Inn," "New Inn," "Staples' Inn," and "Barnard's Inn." They were formerly a sort of collegiate houses in which law students learned the elements of law before being admitted into the inns of court, but they have long ceased to occupy that position. Less...
INNUENDO
This Latin word (commonly translated "meaning") was the technical beginning of that clause in a declaration or indictment for slander or libel in which the meaning of the alleged libelous words was explained, or the application of the language charged to the plaintiff was pointed out. Hence it gave its More...

This Latin word (commonly translated "meaning") was the technical beginning of that clause in a declaration or indictment for slander or libel in which the meaning of the alleged libelous words was explained, or the application of the language charged to the plaintiff was pointed out. Hence it gave its name to the whole clause; and this usage is still retained, although an equivalent English word is now substituted. Thus, it may be charged that the defendant said "he {meaning the said plaintiff) is a perjurer." The word is also used, (though more rarely,) in other species of pleadings, to introduce an explanation of a preceding word, charge, or averment. It is Bald to mean no more than the words "id cut" "scilicet" or "meaning," or "aforesaid," as explanatory of a subject-matter sufficiently expressed before; as "such a one, meaning the defendant," or "such a subject, meaning the subject in question." Cowp. 683. It is only explanatory of some matter already expressed. It serves to point out where there is precedent matter, but never for a new charge. It may apply what is already expressed, but caunot add to or enlarge or change the sense of the previous words. 1 Chit PI. 422. See Grand v. Dreyfus, 122 Cal. 58, 54 Pac. 380; Naulty v. Bulletin Co., 206 Pa. 128, 55 Atl. 862; Cheet-ham v. Tillotson, 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 438; Quinn v. Prudential Ins. Co., 116 Iowa, 522, 90 N. YV. 349; Dickson v. State, 34 Tex. Cr. R. 1, 30 S. V. 807, 53 Am. St. Rep. 694. Less...
INOFFICIOSUM
In the civil law. Inofficious; contrary to natural duty or affection. Used of a will of a parent which disinherited a child without just cause, or that of a child which disinherited a parent, and which could be contested by querela inofjtci-osi testament),. Dig. 2, 5, 3, 13; Paul us, More...

In the civil law. Inofficious; contrary to natural duty or affection. Used of a will of a parent which disinherited a child without just cause, or that of a child which disinherited a parent, and which could be contested by querela inofjtci-osi testament),. Dig. 2, 5, 3, 13; Paul us, lib. 4, tit 5, i L Less...
INOFFICIOUS TESTAMENT
A will not in accordance with the testator's natural affection and moral duties. Williams, Ex'ra, (7th Ed.) 38; Stein v. Wilzinski, 4 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 450; In re Willford's Will (N. J.) 51 Atl. 502. But particularly, in the civil law, a will which deprives the heirs of that More...

A will not in accordance with the testator's natural affection and moral duties. Williams, Ex'ra, (7th Ed.) 38; Stein v. Wilzinski, 4 Redf. Sur. (N. Y.) 450; In re Willford's Will (N. J.) 51 Atl. 502. But particularly, in the civil law, a will which deprives the heirs of that portion of the estate to which the law entitles them, and of which they cannot legally be disinherited. Mackeld. Rom. Law, i 714; Civ. Code La. 1900, art 3556, subd. 16. Less...

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