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  • INVASION
    An encroachment upon tbe rights of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. Webster. See jEt-na Ins. Co. v. Boon, 95 U. S. 129, 24 L. Ed. 395.
  • INVASIONES
    The inquisition of ser-jeantles and knights' fees. Cowell.
  • INVECTA ET ILLATA
    Lat. In the civil law. Things carried in and brought in. Articles brought Into a hired tenement by the hirer or tenant, and which became or were pledged to the lessor as security for the rent Dig. 2, 14, 4, pr. The phrase is adopted in Scotch law. See Bell. More...
  • INVENT
    To find out something new; to devise, contrive, and produce something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment; particularly applied to machines, mechanical appliances, compositions, and patentable inventions of every sort.
  • INVENTIO
    In the civil law. Finding ; one of the modes of acquiring title to property by occupancy. Helnecc. lib. 2, tit 1, | 350. In old English law. A thing found; as goods or treasure-trove. Cowell. The plural, "inventiones," is also used.
  • INVENTION
    In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriving and producing something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment Also the article or contrivance or composition so invented. See Lei-dersdorf v. Flint, 15 Fed. Cas. 260; Smith More...
  • INVENTOR
    One who finds out or contrives some new thing; one who devises some new art, manufacture, mechanical appliance, or process; one who invents a patentable contrivance. See Sparkman v. Higgins, 22 Fed. Cas. 879; Henderson v. Tompkins (C C.) 60 Fed. 764.
  • INVENTORY
    A detailed list of articles of property; a list or schedule of property, containing a designation or description of each specific article; an itemized list of the various articles constituting a collection, estate, stock in trade, etc., with their estimated or actual values. In law, the term Is particularly applied More...
  • INVENTUS
    Lat. Found. Thesaurus inventus, treasure-trove. Non est inventus, [he] is not found.
  • INVERITARE
    To make proof of a thing. Jacob.
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