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  • INCOMPATIBLE
    Two or more relations, offices, functions, or rights which cannot naturally, or may not legally, exist in or be exercised by the same person at the same time, are said to be incompatible. Thus, the relations of lessor and lessee of the same land, in one person at the same More...
  • INCOMPETENCY
    Lack of ability, legal qualification, or fitness to discharge the required duty. In re Leonard's Estate, 95 Mich. 295, 54 N. W. 1082; In re Conn, 78 > Y. 252; Stephenson v. Stephenson, 49 N. C. 473; Nehrling v. State, 112 Wis. 637, 88 N. W. 610. In New York, More...
  • INCONCLUSIVE
    That which may be disproved or rebutted; not shutting out further proof or consideration. Applied to evidence and presumptions.
  • INCONSISTENT
    Mutually repugnant or contradictory; contrary, the one to the other, so that both cannot stand, but the accept* ance or establishment of the one implies the abrogation or abandonment of the other; as, in speaking of "inconsistent defenses," or the repeal by a statute of "all laws inconsistent herewith." See More...
  • INCONSULTO
    Lat In the civil law. Unadvisedly; unintentionally. Dig. 28, 4, L
  • INCONTINENCE
    Want of chastity; indulgence in unlawful carnal connection. Lucas v. Nichols, 52 N. C. 35; State v. Hewlin, 128 N. C. 571, 37 S. E. 952.
  • INCONVENIENCE
    In the rule that statutes should be so. construed as to avoid "inconvenience," this means, as applied to the public, the sacrifice or jeoparding of important public interests or hampering the legitimate activities of government or the transaction of public business, and, as applied to individuals, serious hardship or injustice. More...
  • INCOPOLITUS
    A proctor or vicar. Inoorporalia beUo non adqniruntur* Incorporeal things are not acquired by war. 6 Maule & S. 104.
  • INCORPORAMUS
    We incorporate. One of the words by which a corporation may be created in England. 1 Bl. Comm. 473; 8 Steph. Comm. .173.
  • INCORPORATE
    1. To create a corporation ; to confer a corporate franchise upon determinate persons. 2. To declare that another document shall be taken as part of the document in which the declaration is made as much as if it were set out at length therein. Railroad Co. v. Cupp, 8 More...
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