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  • INCORPORATION
    1. The act or process of forming or creating a corporation; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation. "2. The method of making one document of any kind become a part of another separate More...
  • INCORPOREAL
    Without body; not of materia] nature; the opposite of "corporeal," (9. v.) -Incorporeal chattels. A class of incorporeal rights growing out of or incident to things personal; such as patent-rights and copyrights. 2 Steph. Comm. 72. See Boreel v. New York, 2 Sandf. (N. Y.) 559.-Incorporeal hereditaments. See HEREDITAMENTS.-Incorporeal property. More...
  • INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE
    A species of rogue or offender, described in the statutes 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, and 1 A 2 Vict c 38. 4 Steph. Comm. 309.
  • INCREASE
    (I) The produce of land; (2) the offspring of animals. -^oIncrease, affidavit of. Affidavit of payment of increased costs, produced on taxation. -Increase, costs of. In English law. It was formerly a practice with the jury to award to the successful party in an action tne nominal sum of 40s. More...
  • INCREMENTUM
    Lat. Increase or improvement, opposed to deorementum or abatement
  • INCRIMINATE
    To charge with crime; to expose to an accusation or charge of crime; to involve oneself or another in a criminal prosecution or the danger thereof; as, in the rule that a witness is not bound to give testimony which would tend to incriminate him. -Incriminating clronmstanoe. A fact or More...
  • INCROACHMENT
    An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another. See ENCROACHMENT.
  • INCULPATE
    To impute blame or guilt; to accuse; to involve in guilt or crime.
  • INCULPATORY
    In the law of evidence. Going or tending to establish guilt; intended to establish guilt; criminative. Burrill, Clrc. Ev. 251, 252.
  • INCUMBENT
    A person who is in present possession of an office; one who is legally authorized to discharge the duties of an office. State v. McCollister, 11 Ohio, 50; gtate v. Blakemore, 104 Mo. 840, 15 S. W. 960. In ecclesiastical law, the term signifies a clergyman who is in possession More...
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