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  • INTRA MENIA
    Within the walls (of a house.) A term applied to domestic or menial servants. 1 Bl. Comm. 425.
  • INTRA PARIETES
    Between walls; among friends; out of court; without litigation. Calvin.
  • INTRA PRAESIDIA
    Within the defenses. See INFRA PRAESIDIA.
  • INTRA QUATUOR MARIA
    Within the four seas. Shep. Touch. 378.
  • INTRA VIRES
    An act is said to be intra vires ("within the power") of a person or corporation when it is within the scope of his or its powers or authority. It is the opposite of ultra vires, (q. v.) Pittsburgh, etc., R. Co. v. Dodd, 115 Ky. 176, 72 S. W. More...
  • INTRALIMINAL
    In mining law, the term "intraliminal rights" denotes the right to mine, take, and possess all such bodies or deposits of ore as lie within the four planes formed by the vertical extension downward of the boundary lines of the claim; as distinguished from "extraliminal," or more commonly "extralateral," rights. More...
  • INTRARE MARISCUM
    L. Lat. To drain a marsh or low ground, and convert it into herbage or pasture.
  • INTRASTATE COMMERCE
    See COMMERCE.
  • INTRINSECUM SERVITIUM
    Lat. Common and ordinary duties with the lord's court.
  • INTRINSIC VALUE
    Tbe intrinsic value of a thing is its true, Inherent, and essential value, not depending upon accident, place, or person, but the same everywhere and to every one. Bank of North Carolina v. Ford, 27 N. C. 698.
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