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  • IN FORMA PAUPERIS
    In the character or manner of a pauper. Describes permission given to a poor person to sue without liability for costs.
  • IN FORO
    In a (or the) forum, court, or tribunal. -In foro oonscientise. In the tribunal of conscience: conscientiously; considered from a moral, rather than a legal, point of view.-In foro contentioso. In the forum of contention or litigation.-In foro ecolesiastioo. In an ecclesiastical forum; in the ecclesiastical court Fleta, lib. 2, More...
  • IN FRAUDEM CREDITORUM
    In fraud of creditors; with intent to defraud creditors. Inst 1, 6, pr. 8.
  • IN FRAUDEM LEGIS
    In fraud of the law. 3 Bl. Comm. 94. With the intent or view of evading the law. Jackson v. Jackson, 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 424, 432.
  • IN FULL
    Relating to the whole or fuU amount; as a receipt in full. Complete; giving all details. Bard v. Wood, 8 Mete. (Mass.) 75.
  • IN FULL LIFE
    Continuing in both physical and civil existence; that is, neither actually dead nor civiliter mortuus.
  • IN FUTURO
    In future; at a future time; the opposite of in press enti. 2 BL Comm. 166, 175.
  • IN GENERALI PASSAGIO
    In the general passage; that is, on the journey to Palestine with the general company or body of Crusaders. This term was of frequent oc--currence in the old law of essoins, as a means of accounting for the absence of the party, and was distinguished from simplex passagU am, which More...
  • IN GENERE
    In kind; in the same genus or class; the same in quantity and quality* but not individually the same. In the Roman law, things which may be given or restored in genere are distinguished from each as must be given or restored in specie; that is, identically. Mackeld. Rom. Law, More...
  • IN GREMIO LEGIS
    In the bosom of the law; in the protection of the law; in abeyance. 1 Coke, 131a; T. Raym. 819.
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