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  • INSTANTER
    Immediately; Instantly; forthwith without delay. Trial instanter was had where a prisoner between attainder and execution pleaded .that he was not the same who was attainted. When a party is ordered to plead instanter, he must, plead the same day. The term ia usually understood to mean within twenty-four hours. More...
  • INSTAR
    Lat. Likeness; the likeness, size, or equivalent of a thing. Instar den-tium, like teeth. 2 Bl. Comm. 295. Instar omnium, equivalent or tantamount to all. Id. 146; 8 Bl. Comm. 231.
  • INSTAURUM
    In old English deeds. A stock or store of cattle, and other things; the whole stock upon a farm, including cattle, wagons, plows, and all other implements of husbandry. 1 Mon. Angl. 5485; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 72, | 7. Terra instaurata, land ready stocked.
  • INSTIGATION
    Incitation; urging; solicitation. The act by which one incites another to do something, as to commit some crime or to commence a suit. State v. Frak-er, 148 Mo. 143, 49 S. W. 1017.
  • INSTIRPARE
    To plant or establish.
  • INSTITOR
    Lat. In the civil law. A clerk in a store; an agent
  • INSTITORIA ACTIO
    Lat. In the civil law. The name of an action given to those who had contracted with an institor (q. v.) to compel the principal to perform* ance. Inst 4, 7, 2; Dig. 14, 3, 1; 8tory, Ag. I 426.
  • INSTITORIAL POWER
    The charge given to a clerk to manage a shop or store. 1 Bell, Comm. 506, 507.
  • INSTITUTE
    v. To inaugurate or commence; as to institute an action. Com. v. Duane, 1 BInn. (Pa.) 608, 2 Am. Dec. 497; Franks v. Chapman, 61 Tex. 580; Post v: U. S., 161 U. S. 583, 16 Sup. Ct. 611, 40 L. Ed. 816. To nominate, constitute, or appoint; as to More...
  • INSTITUTE
    n. In the civil law. A person named in the will as heir, but with a direction that he shall pass over the estate to another designated person, called the "substitute." In Scotch law. The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation ; the others, More...
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