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  • INTAKES
    Temporary inclosures made by customary tenants of a manor under a special custom authorizing them to inclose part of the waste until one or more crops have been raised on it Elton, Common, 277.
  • INTANGIBLE PROPERTY
    Used chiefly in the law of taxation, this term means such property as has no intrinsic and marketable value, but is merely the representative or evidence of value, such as certificates of stock, bonds, promissory notes, and franchises. See Western Union Tel. Co. v. Norman (C. C.) 77 Fed. 26.
  • INTEGER
    Lat. Whole; untouched. Res Integra means a question which is new and undecided. 2 Kent Comm. 177.
  • INTEGRITY
    As occasionally used in statutes prescribing the qualifications of public officers, trustees, etc., this term means soundness of moral principle and character, as shown, by one person dealing with others In the making and performance of contracts, and fidelity and honesty in the discharge of trusts; it is synonymous with More...
  • INTELLIGIBILITY
    In pleading. The statement of matters of fact directly (excluding the necessity of inference or argument to arrive at the meaning) and in such appropriate terms, so arranged, as to be comprehensible by a person of common or ordinary understanding. See Merrill v. Everett 38 Conn. 48; Davis v. Trump, More...
  • INTEMPERANCE
    Habitual intemperance is that degree of intemperance from the Use of intoxicating drinks which disqualifies the person a great portion of the time from properly attending to business, or which would reasonably inflict a course of great mental anguish upon an Innocent party. Civ. Code Cal % 106. And see More...
  • INTEND
    To design, resolve, purpose. To apply a rule of law in the nature of presumption; to discern and follow the probabilities of like cases.
  • INTENDANT
    One who has the charge, management, or direction of some office, department, or public business. Used in the constitutional and statutory law of some European governments to designate a principal officer of state correspond- ing to the cabinet ministers or secretaries Of the various departments of the United States government, More...
  • INTENDED TO BE RECORDED
    This phrase is frequently used in conveyances, when reciting some other conveyance which has not yet been recorded, but which forms a link in the chain of title. In Pennsylvania, it has been construed to be a covenant, on the part of the grantor, to procure the deed to be More...
  • INTENDENTE
    In Spanish law. The Immediate agent of the minister of finance, or the chief and principal director of the different branches of the revenue, appointed in the various departments in each of the provinces into which the Spanish monarchy is divided. Escrlche.
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