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  • IPSE
    Lat. He himself; the same; the very person.
  • IPSE DIXIT
    He himself said it; a bare assertion resting on the authority of an individual.
  • IPSISSIMIS VERBIS
    In the identical words; opposed to "substantially." Town-send v. Jemison, 7 How. 719, 12 L. Ed. 880; Summons v. State, 5 Ohio St 346.
  • IPSO FACTO
    By the fact itself; by the mere fact. By the mere effect of an act or a fact. In English ecclesiastical law. A censure of excommunication in the ecclesiastical court, immediately incurred for divers offenses, after lawful trial.
  • IPSO JURE
    By the law itself; by the mere operation of law. Calvin. Ira furor brevis est. Anger is a short insanity. Beardsley v. Maynard, 4 Wend. (N. Y.) 336, 355. IRREMOVABILITY
  • IRA MOTUS
    Lat. Moved or excited by anger or passion. A term sometimes formerly used in the plea of eon assault demesne. "1 Tidd, Pr. 645."
  • IRE AD LARGUM
    Lat. To go at large; to escape; to be set at liberty.
  • IRENARCHA
    In Roman law. An officer whose duties are described in Dig. 5, 4, 18, 7. See Id. 48, 8, 6; Cod. 10, 75. Literally, a peace-ofilcer or magistrate.
  • IRREGULAR
    Not according to rule; improper or insufficient by reason of departure from the prescribed course As to irregular "Deposit" "Indorsement" "Process," and "Succession," see those titles.
  • IRREGULARITY
    Violation or non-observance of established rules and practices. The want of adherence to some prescribed rule or mode of proceeding; consisting either in omitting to do something that is necessary for the due and orderly conducting of a suit, or doing it in an unseasonable time or Improper manner. 1 More...
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