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  • INTRUDER
    One who enters upon land without either right of possession or color of title. Miller v. McCullough, 104 Pa. 630; Russel v. Chambers, 43 Ga. 479. In a more, restricted sense, a stranger who, on the death of the ancestor, enters on the land, unlawfully, before the heir can enter.
  • INTRUSION
    A species of injury by ouster or amotion of possession from the freehold, being an entry of a stranger, after a particular estate of freehold is determined,' before him in remainder or reversion. Hu-lick v. Scovil, 9 111. 170; Boylan v. Deinzer; 45 N. J. Eq. 485, 18 Atl. 121. More...
  • INTOLERABLE CRUELTY
    In the law of divorce, this term denotes extreme cruelty, cruel and inhuman treatment, barbarous, savage, and inhuman conduct, and is equivalent to any of those phrases. Shaw v. Shaw, 17 Conn. 193; Morehouse v. Morehouse, 70 Conn. 420, 39 Atl. 516; Blain v. Blain, 45 Vt. 544.
  • INTUITUS
    Lat. A view; regard; contemplation. Diverso intuitu, (q. v.,) with a different view.
  • INURE
    To take effect; to result. Cedar Rapids Water Co. v. Cedar Rapids, 118 Iowa, 234, 91 N. W. 1081; Hinson v. Booth, 39 Fla. 333, 22 South. 687; Holmes v. Tallada, 125 Pa. 133, 17 Atl. 238, 3 L. R. A. 219, ll Am, St. Rep. 880.
  • INUREMENT
    Use; riser; service to the use or benefit of a person. Dickerson v. Colgrove, 100 U. S. 583, 25 L. Ed. 618. Inntilis labor et sine frnctn non est effeotns legis. Useless and fruitless labor is not the effect of law. Co. Litt 127b. The law forbids such recoveries whose More...
  • INVADIARE
    To pledge or mortgage lands.
  • INVADIATIO
    A pledge or mortgage.
  • INVADIATUS
    One who is under pledge; one who has had sureties or pledges given for him. Spelman.
  • INVALID
    Vain; inadequate to its purpose; not of binding force or legal efficacy; lacking in authority or obligation. Hood v. Perry, 75 Ga. 312; State v. Casteel, 110 Ind. 174, 11 N. E. 219; Mutual Ben. L. Ins. Co. v. Winne, 20 Mont 20, 49 Pac. 446.
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