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  • INFIGHT
    Sax. An assault made on a person inhabiting the same dwelling. Infinitum in jnre reprobatnr.- That which is endless is reprobated in law. 12 Coke, 24. Applied to litigation. o
  • INFIRM
    Weak, feeble. The testimony of an "infirm" witness may be taken de bene esse in some circumstances. See 1- P. Wms. 117.
  • INFIRMATIYE
    In the law of evidence; Having the quality of diminishing force; having a tendency to weaken or render infirm. 3 Benth. Jud. Ev. 14; Best, Pres. % 217. **InnraatlTe consideration. In the law of evidence. A consideration, supposition, or hypothesis of which the criminative facts of a case admit and More...
  • INFLUENCE
    See UNDUE INFLUENCE.
  • INFORMAL
    Deficient in legal form; inartlflciaUy drawn up.
  • INFORMALITY
    Want of legal form. See State v. Galiimon, 24 N. C. 377; Franklin y. Mackey, 16 Serg. A It (Pa.) 113; Hunt v. Curry, 37 ,Ark. 108.
  • INFORMATION
    In practice. An accusation exhibited against a person for some criminal offense, without an indictment. 4 Bl. Comm. 308. An accusation in the nature of an indictment, from which it differs only in being presented by a competent public officer on his oath of office, Instead of a grand jury More...
  • INFORMATUS NON SUM
    In practice. I am not informed. A formal answer made by the defendant's attorney in court to the effect that he has not been advised of any defense to be made to the action. Thereupon judgment by default passes.
  • INFORMER
    A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute. -Common informer. A common prosecutor. A person who habitually ferrets out crimes and Offenses and lays information thereof before the ministers of justice, in order to set a prosecution on More...
  • INFORTIATUM
    The name given by the glossators to the second of the tbr.ee parts or volumes into which the Pandects were divided. The glossators at Bologna had at first only two parts, the first called "Dkgeatum Vetua," (the old Digest,) and the last called "Digestum Novum,19 (the New Digest.) When tjiey More...
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