Legal Term Dictionary

Search our free database of thousands of legal terms. The easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms.This dictionary is from the early 20th century and is not to be construed as legal advice.

Search
  • INVADIATIO
    A pledge or mortgage.
  • INVADIATUS
    One who is under pledge; one who has had sureties or pledges given for him. Spelman.
  • INVALID
    Vain; inadequate to its purpose; not of binding force or legal efficacy; lacking in authority or obligation. Hood v. Perry, 75 Ga. 312; State v. Casteel, 110 Ind. 174, 11 N. E. 219; Mutual Ben. L. Ins. Co. v. Winne, 20 Mont 20, 49 Pac. 446.
  • INVASION
    An encroachment upon tbe rights of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder. Webster. See jEt-na Ins. Co. v. Boon, 95 U. S. 129, 24 L. Ed. 395.
  • INVASIONES
    The inquisition of ser-jeantles and knights' fees. Cowell.
  • INVECTA ET ILLATA
    Lat. In the civil law. Things carried in and brought in. Articles brought Into a hired tenement by the hirer or tenant, and which became or were pledged to the lessor as security for the rent Dig. 2, 14, 4, pr. The phrase is adopted in Scotch law. See Bell. More...
  • INVENT
    To find out something new; to devise, contrive, and produce something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment; particularly applied to machines, mechanical appliances, compositions, and patentable inventions of every sort.
  • INVENTIO
    In the civil law. Finding ; one of the modes of acquiring title to property by occupancy. Helnecc. lib. 2, tit 1, | 350. In old English law. A thing found; as goods or treasure-trove. Cowell. The plural, "inventiones," is also used.
  • INVENTION
    In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriving and producing something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment Also the article or contrivance or composition so invented. See Lei-dersdorf v. Flint, 15 Fed. Cas. 260; Smith More...
  • INVENTOR
    One who finds out or contrives some new thing; one who devises some new art, manufacture, mechanical appliance, or process; one who invents a patentable contrivance. See Sparkman v. Higgins, 22 Fed. Cas. 879; Henderson v. Tompkins (C C.) 60 Fed. 764.
Showing 800 of 855