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  • INTRA QUATUOR MARIA
    Within the four seas. Shep. Touch. 378.
  • INTRA VIRES
    An act is said to be intra vires ("within the power") of a person or corporation when it is within the scope of his or its powers or authority. It is the opposite of ultra vires, (q. v.) Pittsburgh, etc., R. Co. v. Dodd, 115 Ky. 176, 72 S. W. More...
  • INTRALIMINAL
    In mining law, the term "intraliminal rights" denotes the right to mine, take, and possess all such bodies or deposits of ore as lie within the four planes formed by the vertical extension downward of the boundary lines of the claim; as distinguished from "extraliminal," or more commonly "extralateral," rights. More...
  • INTRARE MARISCUM
    L. Lat. To drain a marsh or low ground, and convert it into herbage or pasture.
  • INTRASTATE COMMERCE
    See COMMERCE.
  • INTRINSECUM SERVITIUM
    Lat. Common and ordinary duties with the lord's court.
  • INTRINSIC VALUE
    Tbe intrinsic value of a thing is its true, Inherent, and essential value, not depending upon accident, place, or person, but the same everywhere and to every one. Bank of North Carolina v. Ford, 27 N. C. 698.
  • INTRODUCTION
    The part of a writing which sets forth preliminary matter, or facts tending to explain the subject.
  • INTROMISSION
    In Scotch law. The assumption of authority over another's property, either legally or illegally. The irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which subjects the party to the whole debts of the deceased, is called "vitious intromission." Karnes, Eq. fo. 3, c. 8,|2. -Necessary intromission. That kind of More...
  • INTRONISATION
    In French ecclesiastical law. Enthronement. The installation of a bishop In his episcopal see.
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