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  • INFRA TRIDUUM
    Within three days. Formal words in old appeals. Fleta, lib. 1, c 31, 8 6; Id. c. 35, i 3.
  • INFRACTION
    A breach, violation, or infringement; as of a law, a contract a right or duty. In French law, this term is used as a general designation of all punishable actions.
  • INFRINGEMENT
    A breaking into; a trespass or encroachment upon; a violation of a law, regulation, contract, or right Used especially of invasions of the rights secured by patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Goodyear Shoe Machinery Co. v. Jackson, 112 Fed. 146. 50 C. C A. 159, 55 U R. A. 692; Thomson-Houston More...
  • INFUGARE
    Lat. To put to flight.
  • INFULA
    A coif, or a cassock. Jacob.
  • INFUSION
    In medical jurisprudence. The process of steeping In liquor; an operation by which the medicinal qualities of a substance may be extracted by a liquor without boiling. Also the product of this operation. "Infusion" and "decoction," though not identical, are ejusdem generis in law. 3 Camp. 74. See DECOCTION.
  • INGE
    Meadow, or pasture. Jacob.
  • INGENIUM
    (1) Artifice, trick, fraud; (2) an engine, machine, or device Spelman.
  • INGENUITAS
    Lat Freedom; liberty; the state or condition of one who is free. Also liberty given to a servant by manumission. -Ingennitas regnL In old English law. The Freemen, yeomanry, or commonalty of the kingdom. Cowell. Applied sometimes also to the barons.
  • INGENUUS
    In Roman law. A person who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libertus, who, having been born a slave, was afterwards manumitted or made free. It is not the same as the English law term "gvnerosus," which denoted a person not More...
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