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  • INNAVIGABILITY
    In insurance law. The condition of being innavigable, (q. v.) The foreign writers distinguish "innaviga-billty" from "shipwreck." 3 Kent, Comm. 323, and note, The term is also applied to the condition of streams which are not large enough or deep enough, or are otherwise un-suited, for navigation.
  • INNAVIGABLE
    As applied to streams, not capable of or suitable for navigation; impassable by ships or vessels. As applied to vessels in the law of marine insurance, it means unfit for navigation; so damaged by misadventures at sea as to be no longer capable of making a voyage. See 3 Kent, More...
  • INNER BARRISTER
    A Serjeant or king's counsel, in England, who is admitted to plead within the bar. '
  • INNER HOUSE
    The name given to the chambers in which the first and second divisions of the court of session in Scotland hold their sittings. See OUTER HOUSE.
  • INNINGS
    In old records. Lands recovered from the sea by draining and banking. Cowell.
  • INNKEEPER
    On who keeps an inn or house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers. The keeper of a common Inn for the lodging and entertainment of travelers and passengers, their horses and attendants, for a reasonable compensation. Story, Bailm. I 475. One who keeps a tavern or coffeehouse in which More...
  • INNOCENT
    Free from guilt; acting in good faith and without knowledge of Incriminatory circumstances, or of defects or objections. -Innocent agent, in criminal law. One who, being ignorant of any unlawful intent on the part of his principal, is merely the instrument of the guilty party in committing an offense; one More...
  • INNOMINATE
    In the civil law. Not named or classed; belonging to no specific class; ranking under a general head. A term applied to those contracts for which no certain or precise remedy was appointed, but a general action on the case only. Dig. 2, 1, 4, 7, 2; Id. 19, 4, More...
  • INNONIA
    In old English law. A close or inclosure, (clausum, inclausura.) Spelman.
  • INNOTESCIMUS
    Lat. We make known. A term formerly applied to letters patent, derived from the emphatic word at the conclusion of the Latin forms. It was a species of exemplification of charters of feoffment or other instruments not of record. 5 Coke, 54a.
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