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  • INSURGENT
    One who participates in an Insurrection; one who opposes the execution of law by force of arms, or who rises in revolt against the constituted authorities. A distinction is often taken between "insurgent" and "rebel," in this: that the former term is not necessarily to be taken in a bad More...
  • INSURRECTION
    A rebellion, or rising of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government. See INSURGENT. Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the state, with intent to the denial thereof, when the same is manifested, or intended to be manifested, by acts of violence. Code More...
  • INTAKERS
    In old English law. A kind of thieves inhabiting Redesdale, on the extreme northern border of England; so called because they took in or received such booties of cattle and other things as their accomplices, who were called "outparters," brought in to them from the borders of Scotland. Spelman; CowelL
  • INTAKES
    Temporary inclosures made by customary tenants of a manor under a special custom authorizing them to inclose part of the waste until one or more crops have been raised on it Elton, Common, 277.
  • INTANGIBLE PROPERTY
    Used chiefly in the law of taxation, this term means such property as has no intrinsic and marketable value, but is merely the representative or evidence of value, such as certificates of stock, bonds, promissory notes, and franchises. See Western Union Tel. Co. v. Norman (C. C.) 77 Fed. 26.
  • INTEGER
    Lat. Whole; untouched. Res Integra means a question which is new and undecided. 2 Kent Comm. 177.
  • INTEGRITY
    As occasionally used in statutes prescribing the qualifications of public officers, trustees, etc., this term means soundness of moral principle and character, as shown, by one person dealing with others In the making and performance of contracts, and fidelity and honesty in the discharge of trusts; it is synonymous with More...
  • INTELLIGIBILITY
    In pleading. The statement of matters of fact directly (excluding the necessity of inference or argument to arrive at the meaning) and in such appropriate terms, so arranged, as to be comprehensible by a person of common or ordinary understanding. See Merrill v. Everett 38 Conn. 48; Davis v. Trump, More...
  • INTEMPERANCE
    Habitual intemperance is that degree of intemperance from the Use of intoxicating drinks which disqualifies the person a great portion of the time from properly attending to business, or which would reasonably inflict a course of great mental anguish upon an Innocent party. Civ. Code Cal % 106. And see More...
  • INTEND
    To design, resolve, purpose. To apply a rule of law in the nature of presumption; to discern and follow the probabilities of like cases.
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