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  • INTER CAETEROS
    Among others; in a general clause; not by name, (notninatim.) A term applied in the civil law to clauses of disinheritance in a will. Inst. 2, 13, 1; Id. 2, 13, 3.
  • INTER CANEM ET LUPUM
    (Lat. Between the dog and the wolf.) The twilight; because then the dog seeks his rest, and the wolf his prey. 3 Inst. 63.
  • INTER CONJUGES
    Between husband and wife.
  • INTER CONJUNCTAS PERSONAS
    Betwee conjunct persons. By the act 1621, c 18, all conveyances or alienations between conjunct persons, unless granted for onerous causes, are declared, as in a question with creditors, to be null and of no avail. Conjunct persons are those standing in a certain degree of relationship to each other; More...
  • INTER FAUCES TERRAE
    (Between the jaws of the land.) A term used to describe a roadstead or arm of the sea enclosed between promontories or projecting headlands.
  • INTER PARES
    Between peers; between those who stand on a level or equality, as respects diligence, opportunity, responsibility, etc.
  • INTER PARTES
    Between parties. Instruments in which two persons unite, each making conveyance to, or engagement with, the other, are called "papers inter partes." Smith v. Emery, 12 N. J. Law, 60.
  • INTER QUATUOR PARIETES
    Between four walls. Fleta, lib. 6, c. 55, ? 4.
  • INTER REGALIA
    In English law. Among the things belonging to the sovereign. Among these are rights of salmon fishing, mines of gold and silver, forests, forfeitures, casualties of superiority, etc., which are called "regalia minora," and may be conveyed to a subject. The regalia majora include the several branches of the royal More...
  • INTER RUSTICOS
    Among the illiterate or unlearned.
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