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  • IRRITANT
    In Scotch law. Avoiding or making void; as an irritant clause. See IRRITANCY.
  • IRRITANT CLAUSE
    In Scotch law. A provision by which certain prohibited acts specified In a deed are, if committed, declared to be null and void. A resolutive clause dissolves and puts an end to the right of a proprietor on his committing the acts so declared void.
  • IRROGARE
    Lat. In the civil law. To impose or set upon, as a fine. Calvin. To inflict, as a punishment. To make or ordain, as a law.
  • IRROTULATIO
    L. Lat An enrolling; a record.
  • IS QUI COGNOSCIT
    Lat. The cognizor in a fine. Is cui cognoscitur, the cognizee.
  • ISH
    In Scotch law. The period of the termination of a tack or lease. 1 Bligh, 522.
  • ISLAND
    A piece of land surrounded by water. Webber v. Pere Marquette Boom Co.', 62 Mich. 626, 30 N. W. 469; Goff v. Cougle, 118 Mich. 307, 76 N. W. 489, 42 L. R. A. 161.
  • ISSINT
    A law French term, meaning "thus," "so," giving its name to part of a plea in debt.
  • ISSUABLE
    In practice. Leading to or producing an issue; relating to an issue or issues. See Colquitt v. Mercer, 44 Ga. 433. -Issuable plea. A plea to the merits; a traversable plea. A plea such that the adverse party can join issue upon it and go to trial. It is true More...
  • ISSUE
    v. To send forth; to emit; to promulgate; as, an officer issues orders, process issues from a court. To put into circulation; as, the treasury issues notes.
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