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  • INCHARTARE
    To give, or grant and assure anything by a written instrument.
  • INCHOATE
    Imperfect; unfinished; begun, but not completed; as a contract not executed by all the parties. -Inchoate instrument. Instruments which the law requires to be registered or recorded are said to be "inchoate" prior to registration, in .that they are then good only between the parties and privies and as to More...
  • INCIDENT
    This word, used as a noun, denotes anything which inseparably belongs to, or is connected with, or inherent in, another thing, called tbe "principal." In this sense, a court-baron is Incident to a manor. Also, less strictly, It denotes anything which is usually connected with another, or connected for some More...
  • INCIDERE
    Lat. In the civil and old English law. To fall into. Calvin. To fall out; to happen; to come to pass. Calvin. To fall upon or under; to become subject or liable to. Incidere in legem, to incur the penalty of a law. Brissonius.
  • INCILE
    Lat. In the civil law. A trench. A place sunk by the side of a stream, so called because it is.cut (incidatur) into or through the stone or earth. Dig. 43, 21, 1, 5. The term seems to have included ditches (fossa) and wells, (putei.)
  • INCINERATION
    Burning to ashes; destruction of a substance by fire, as, the corpse of a' murdered person.
  • INCIPITUR
    Lat. It is begun; it begins. In old practice, when the pleadings in an action at law, instead of being recited at large on the issue-roll, were set out merely by their commencements, this was described as entering the incipitur; i. e., the beginning.
  • INCISED WOUND
    In medical jurisprudence. A cut or incision on a human body; a wound made by a cutting instrument such as a razor. Burrill, Circ Ev. 693; Whart & S. Med. Jur. | 808.
  • INCITE
    To arouse; stir up; instigate; set in motion; as, to "incite" a riot Also, generally, in criminal law to instigate, persuade, or move another to commit a crime; in this sense nearly synonymous with "abet" See Long v. State, 23 Neb. 33, 36 N. W. 310.
  • INCIVILE
    Lat Irregular; improper; out of the due course of law. Incivlle est, nisi tota lege perspeota, una alioua partieula ejus proposita, ju-dieare, vol respondere. It is improper, without looking at the whole of a law, to give judgment or advice, upon a view of any one clause of it Dig. More...
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