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  • INTER QUATUOR PARIETES
    Between four walls. Fleta, lib. 6, c. 55, ? 4.
  • INTER REGALIA
    In English law. Among the things belonging to the sovereign. Among these are rights of salmon fishing, mines of gold and silver, forests, forfeitures, casualties of superiority, etc., which are called "regalia minora," and may be conveyed to a subject. The regalia majora include the several branches of the royal More...
  • INTER RUSTICOS
    Among the illiterate or unlearned.
  • INTER SE, INTER SESE
    Among themselves. Story, Partn. s 405.
  • INTER VIRUM ET UXOREM
    Between husband and wife
  • INTER VIVOS
    Between the living; from one living person to another. Where property passes by conveyance, the transact tion Is said to be inter vivos, to distinguish it from a case of succession or devise. So an ordinary gift from one person to another is called a "gift inter vivos," to distinguish More...
  • INTERCALARE
    Lat. In the civil law. To introduce or insert among or between others; to introduce a day or month into the calendar; to intercalate. Dig. 50, 16, 98, pr.
  • INTERCEDERE
    Lat. In the civil law. To become bound for another's debt
  • INTERCHANGEABLY
    By way of exchange or interchange. This term properly denotes the method of signing deeds, leases, contracts, etc., executed in duplicate, where each party signs the copy which he delivers to the other. Roosevelt v. Smith, 17 Misc. Rep. 323, 40 N. Y. Supp. 381.
  • INTERCOMMON
    To enjoy a common mutually or promiscuously with the inhabitants or tenants of a contiguous township, vill, or manor. 2 BL Comm. 33; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. p. 271, s 290. s"
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