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  • INBORH
    In Saxon law. A security, pledge, or hypotheca, consisting of the chattels of a person unable to obtain a personal "borg," or surety.
  • INBOUND COMMON
    An uninclosed common, marked out however, by boundaries.
  • INCAPACITY
    Want of capacity; want of power or ability to take or dispose; want of legal ability to act Elllcott v. Ellicott 90 Md. 321, 45 Atl. 183, 48 L. It A. 68; Drews' Appeal, 58 N. H. 320; Appeal of Cleveland, 72 Conn. 340, 44 Atl. 476; In re Blinn, More...
  • INCARCERATION
    Imprisonment; confinement in a Jail or penitentiary. This term is seldom used in law, though found occasionally in statutes, (Rev. St. Old. 1903, f 2068.) When so used, it appears always to mean confinement by competent public au< thority or under due legal process, whereas "imprisonment" may be effected by More...
  • INCASTELLARE
    TO make a buOding serve as a castle. Jacob.
  • INCAUSTUM, OR ENCAUSTUM
    Ink. Fleta, L 2, c 27, J 5. Ineaute faotnm pro non faoto babe-tar. A thing done unwarily (or unadvisedly) will be taken as not done. Dig. 28, 4, L
  • INCENDIARY
    A house-burner; one guilty of arson; one "who maliciously and willfully sets another person's building on lire. Inoendinm sure alieno non exult deb* ftorem. Cod. 4, 2, 11. A fire does not release a debtor from his debt.
  • INCEPTION
    Commencement; opening; initiation. The beginning of. the operation of a contract or will, or of a note, mortgage, lien, etc.; the beginning of a cause or suit In court Oriental Hotel Co. v. Griffiths, 88 Tex. 574, 33 S. W. 652, 30 Lb R. A. 765, 53 Am. St Rep. More...
  • INCEST
    The crime of sexual Intercourse or cohabitation between a man and woman who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. People v. Stratton, 141 Cal. 604, 75 l"ac. 166; State v. Herges, 55 Minn. 464, 57 N. W. 205; Dinkey v. Com., 17 More...
  • INCH
    A measure of length, containing one-twelfth part of a foot; originally supposed equal to three barleycorns. -Inch of candle. A mode of sale at one time in use among merchants. A notice is first given upon, the exchange, or other public place, as to tae time of sale. The goods More...
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