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  • IDENTIFICATION
    Proof of identity; the proving that a person, subject, or article before the court is the very same that he or it is alleged, charged, or reputed to be; as where a witness recognizes the prisoner at the bar as the same person whom he saw committing the crime; or More...
  • IDENTITATE NOMINIS
    In English law. An ancient writ (now obsolete) which lay for one taken and arrested in any personal action, and committed to prison, by mistake for another man of the same name. Fitzh. Nat Brer. 267.
  • IDENTITY
    In tbe law of evidenoe. Sameness; the fact that a subject, person, or thing before a court is the same as it Is represented, claimed, or charged to be. See Burrill, Circ. Ev. 382, 453, 631, 644. In patent law. Such sameness between two designs, inventions, combinations, etc., .as will More...
  • IDEO
    Lat. Therefore. Calvin.
  • IDEO CONSIDERATUM EST
    Lat. Therefore it is considered. These were the words used at the beginning ef the entry of judgment in an action, when the forms were in Latin. They are also used as a name for that portion of the record.
  • IDES
    A division of time among the Romans. In March, May, July, and October, the Ides were on the 15th of the month; in the remaining months, on the 13th. This method of reckoning is still retained in the chancery of Rome, and in the calendar of the breviary. Wharton.
  • IDIOCHIRA
    Gmco-Lat. In the civil law. Ah instrument privately executed, as* distinguished from such as were executed before a public officer. Cod. 8, 18, 11; Calvin.
  • IDIOCY
    See INSANITY.
  • IDIOT
    A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whom the law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any. Shelf. Lun. 2. See INSANITY.
  • IDIOTA
    In' tbe civil law. An unlearned, illiterate, or simple person. Calvin. A private man; one not in office. In common law. An idiot or fool.
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