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  • INFANTIA
    Lat. In the civil law. The period of infancy between birth and the age of seven years. Calvin.
  • INFANTICIDE
    The murder or killing of an infant soon after its birth. The fact of the birth distinguishes this act from "foeticide" or "procuring abortion," which terms denote the destruction of the foetus in the womb.
  • INFANTS' MARRIAGE ACT
    The statute 18 & 19 Vict. c. 43. By virtue of this act every infant, (if a male, of twenty, or, if a female, of seventeen, years,-section 4,) upon or in contemplation of marriage, may, with the sanction of the chancery division of the high court, make a valid settlement More...
  • INFANZON
    In Spanish law. A person of noble birth, who exercises within his domains and inheritance no other rights and privileges than those conceded to him. Es-criche.
  • INFECTION
    In medical jurisprudence. The transmission of disease or disease germs from one person to another, either directly by contact with morbidly affected surfaces, or more remotely through inhalation, absorption of food or liquid tainted with ex-cremental matter, contact with contaminated clothing or bedding, or other agencies. A distinction is sometimes More...
  • INFEFT
    In Scotch law. To give seisin or possession of lands; to invest or enfeoff., 1 Karnes, Eq. 215.
  • INFEFTMENT
    In old Scotch law. Investiture or infeudation, including both charter and seisin. . 1 Forb. Inst pt. 2, p. "110. . :" In later law. Saisine, or the instrument of possession. Bell.
  • INFENSARE CURIAM
    Lat An expression applied to a court when it suggested to an advocate something which he had omitted through mistake or ignorance. Spel-' man.
  • INFEOFFMENT
    The act or instru-' ment of feoffment In Scotland it is synonymous with 11saisine" meaning the instrument of possession. Formerly it was synonymous with "investiture." Bell.
  • INFERENCE
    In the law of evidence. A truth or proposition drawn from another which is supposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to be established is deduced as a logical consequence from other ' facts, or a state of facts, already More...
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