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  • INTIMATION
    In tne civil law. A notification to a party that some step in a legal proceeding is asked or will be taken. Particularly, a notice given by the party taking an appeal, to the other party, that the court above will hear the appeal. In Scotch law. A formal written More...
  • INTIMIDATION
    In English law. Every person commits a misdemeanor, punishable with a fine or imprisonment, who wrongfully uses violence to or intimidates any other person, or his wife or children, with a view to compel him to abstain from doing, or to do, any act which he has a legal right More...
  • INTITLE
    An old form of "entitle." 6 Mod. 304.
  • INTOL AND UTTOL
    In old records. Toll or custom paid for things Imported and exported, or bought in and sold out CowelL
  • INTOXICATION
    The state of being poisoned; the condition produced by the administration or introduction into the human system of a poison. But in its popular use this term is restricted to alcoholic intoxication, that is, drunkenness or inebriety, or the mental and physical condition induced by drinking excessive quantities of alcoholic More...
  • INTOXICATING LIQUOR
    Any liquor used as a beverage, and which, when so used in sufficient quantities, ordinarily or commonly produces entire or partial intoxication; any liquor Intended for use as a beverage or capable of being so used, which contains alcohol, either obtained by fermentation or by the additional process of distillation, More...
  • INTRA
    Lat. In; near; within. "Infra" or "inter" has taken the place of "intra." In many of the more modern Latin phrases.
  • INTRA ANNI SPATIUM
    Within the space of a year. Cod. 5, 9, 2. Intra annate tcmpus. Id. 6, 80, 19.
  • INTRA FIDEM
    Within belief; credible. Calvin.
  • INTRA LUCTUS TEMPUS
    Within the time of mourning. Cod. 9, 1, auth.
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