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  • INEWARDUS
    A guard; a watchman. Domesday.
  • INFALISTATUS
    In old English law. Exposed upon the sands, or sea-shore. A species of punishment mentioned in Heng-ham. Cowell.
  • INFAMIA
    Lat Infamy; ignominy or disgrace. By infamia juris is meant infamy established by Uw as the consequence of crime; infamia facti is where the party is supposed to be guilty of such crime, but it has not been judicially proved. Comm. v. Green, 17 Mass. 515, 541.
  • INFAMIS
    Lat In Roman law. A person whose right of reputation was diminished (involving the loss of some of the rights of citizenship) either on account of his infamous avocation or because of conviction for crime. Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 135.
  • INFAMOUS CRIME
    See CRIME.
  • INFAMY
    A qualification of a man's legal status produced by his conviction of an infamous crime and the consequent loss of honor and credit, which, at common law, rendered him incompetent as a witness, and by statute in some jurisdictions entails other disabilities. McCafferty v. Guyer. 59 Pa. 116; Ex parte More...
  • INFANCY
    Minority; the state of a person who is under the age of legal majority, -at common law, twenty-one years. According to the sense in which this term is used, it may denote the condition of the person merely with reference to his years, or the contractual disabilities which non-age entails, More...
  • INFANGENTHEF
    In old English law. A privilege of lords of certain manors to judge any thief taken within their fee.
  • INFANS
    Lat. In the civil law. A child under the age of seven years; so called "quasi impos fandi," (as not having the faculty of speech.) Cod. Theodos, 8, 18, 8. Infans non mnltum a farioso distat. An infant does not differ much from a lunatic. Bract. 1. 8, c. 2, More...
  • INFANT
    A person within age, not of age, or not of full age; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Co.'Litt. 171b; 1 Bl. Comm. 463-466; 2 Kent Comm. 233.
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