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  • IMPEDIMENTO
    In Spanish law. A prohibition to contract marriage, established by law between certain persons.
  • IMPEDIMENTS
    Disabilities, or hindrances to the making of contracts, such as coverture, infancy, want of reason, etc. In the civil law. Bars to marriage. Absolute impediments are those which prevent the person subject to them from marrying at all, without either the nullity of marriage or its being punishable. Diri-mant impediments More...
  • IMPEDITOR
    In old English law. A disturber in the action of quare impedit. St Marlb. c 12.
  • IMPENSAE
    Lat. In the civil law. Expenses ; outlays. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 168; Calvin. Divided into necessary, (necessaries,) useful, (utiles,) and tasteful or ornamental, (voluptuaries.) Dig. 50, 16, 79. See Id. 25, L
  • IMPERATIVE
    See DIRECTORY.
  • IMPERATOR
    Emperor. The title of the Roman emperors, and also of the Kings of England before the Norman conquest Cod. 1, 14, 12; 1 BL Comm. 242. See EM-PEBOB.
  • IMPERFECT
    As used in various legal compound terms, this word means defective or incomplete; wanting in some legal or formal requisite; wanting in legal sanction or effectiveness; as in speaking of Imperfect "obligations," "ownership," "rights," "title," "usufruct," or "war." See those nouns. Imperii majestas est tutelss sains. Co. Litt 64. The More...
  • IMPERITIA
    Lat. Unsklllf ulness; want of skill. Imperitia culpa adnumeratur. Want of skill is reckoned as culpa; that is, as blam-able conduct or neglect Dig. 50, 17, 132. Imperitia est maxima mechanloorum poena. Unskillfulness is the greatest punishment of mechanics; [that is, from its effect in making them liable to those More...
  • IMPERIUM
    The right to command, which includes the right to employ the force of the state to enforce the laws. This is one of the principal attributes of the power ot the executive. 1 Toulller, no. 58.
  • IMPERSONALITAS
    Lat. Impersonality. A mode of expression where no reference is made to any person, such as the expression "ut dicitur," (as is said.) Co. Litt 352b. Impersonalitas non ooncludit nec ligat. Co. Litt 352b. Impersonality neither concludes nor binds.
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