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  • INTRODUCTION
    The part of a writing which sets forth preliminary matter, or facts tending to explain the subject.
  • INTROMISSION
    In Scotch law. The assumption of authority over another's property, either legally or illegally. The irregular intermeddling with the effects of a deceased person, which subjects the party to the whole debts of the deceased, is called "vitious intromission." Karnes, Eq. fo. 3, c. 8,|2. -Necessary intromission. That kind of More...
  • INTRONISATION
    In French ecclesiastical law. Enthronement. The installation of a bishop In his episcopal see.
  • INTRUDER
    One who enters upon land without either right of possession or color of title. Miller v. McCullough, 104 Pa. 630; Russel v. Chambers, 43 Ga. 479. In a more, restricted sense, a stranger who, on the death of the ancestor, enters on the land, unlawfully, before the heir can enter.
  • INTRUSION
    A species of injury by ouster or amotion of possession from the freehold, being an entry of a stranger, after a particular estate of freehold is determined,' before him in remainder or reversion. Hu-lick v. Scovil, 9 111. 170; Boylan v. Deinzer; 45 N. J. Eq. 485, 18 Atl. 121. More...
  • INTOLERABLE CRUELTY
    In the law of divorce, this term denotes extreme cruelty, cruel and inhuman treatment, barbarous, savage, and inhuman conduct, and is equivalent to any of those phrases. Shaw v. Shaw, 17 Conn. 193; Morehouse v. Morehouse, 70 Conn. 420, 39 Atl. 516; Blain v. Blain, 45 Vt. 544.
  • INTUITUS
    Lat. A view; regard; contemplation. Diverso intuitu, (q. v.,) with a different view.
  • INURE
    To take effect; to result. Cedar Rapids Water Co. v. Cedar Rapids, 118 Iowa, 234, 91 N. W. 1081; Hinson v. Booth, 39 Fla. 333, 22 South. 687; Holmes v. Tallada, 125 Pa. 133, 17 Atl. 238, 3 L. R. A. 219, ll Am, St. Rep. 880.
  • INUREMENT
    Use; riser; service to the use or benefit of a person. Dickerson v. Colgrove, 100 U. S. 583, 25 L. Ed. 618. Inntilis labor et sine frnctn non est effeotns legis. Useless and fruitless labor is not the effect of law. Co. Litt 127b. The law forbids such recoveries whose More...
  • INVADIARE
    To pledge or mortgage lands.
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