日期：2008-03-15 INGRATITUDE . The forgetfulness of a kindness or benefit. 2. In the civil law, ingratitude on the part of a legatee, was sufficient to defeat a legacy in his favour. In Louisiana, donations inter vivos are liable to be revoked or dissolved on accoun... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INFRA CORPUS COMITATUS . Within the body of the countt. 2. The common law courts have jurisdiction infra corpus comitatus; the admiralty, on the contrary, has no such jurisdiction, unless, indeed, the tide water may extend within such county. 5 Howa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INFORMATION IN THE NATURE OF A WRIT OF QUO WARRANTO , remedies. The name of a proceeding against any one who usurps a franchise or office. 2. Informations of this kind are filed in the highest courts of ordinary jurisdiction in the several states, e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INFIRM . Weak, feeble. 2. When a witness is infirm to an extent likely to destroy his life, or to prevent his attendauce at the trial, his testimony de bene esge may be taken at any age. 1 P. Will. 117; see Aged witness.; Going witness. INFLUENCE .... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INFANTICIDE , med. juris. The murder of a new born infant, Dalloz, Dict. Homicide, 4; Code Penal, 300. There is a difference between this offence and those known by the name of prolicide, (q. V.) and foeticide. (q. v.) 2. To commit infanticide the c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INFANCY . The state or condition of a person under tho age of twenty-one years. Vide Infant. INFANT , persons. One under the age of twenty-one years. Co. Litt. 171. 2. But he is reputed to be twenty-one years old, or of full age, the first instant o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INELIGIBILITY . The incapacity to be lawfully elected. 2. This incapacity arises from various, causes, and a person may be incapable of being elected to one office who may, be elected to another; the incapacity may also be perpetual or temporary. 3.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INDORSER , contracts. The person who makes an indorsement. 2. The indorser of a bill of exchange, or other negotiable paper, by his indorsement undertakes to be responsible to the holder for the amount of the bill or note, if the latter shall make a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INDORSEMENT , crin. law, practice. When a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a crime has been issued by a justice of the peace of one county, which is to be executed in another county, it is necessary in some states, as in Pennsylvania,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INDICTOR . He who causes another to be indicted. The latter is sometimes called the indictee. INDIFFERENT . To have no bias nor partiality. 7 Conn. 229. A juror, an arbitrator, and a witness, ought to be indifferent, and when they are not so, they m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INDICIA , civil law. Signs, marks. Example: in replevin, the chattel must possess indicia, or earmarks, by which it can be distinguished from all others of the same description. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3556. This term is very nearly synonymous with the com... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INDEPENDENCE . A state of perfect irresponsibility to any superior; the United States are free and independent of all earthly power. 2. Independence may be divided into political and natural independence. By the former is to be understood that we ha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INDEFINITE, NUMBER . A number which may be increased or diminished at pleasure. 2. When a corporation is composed of an indefinite number of persons, any number of them consisting of a majority of those present may do any act unless it be otherwise... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INDEBITI SOLUTIO , civil law. The payment to one of what is not due to him. If the payment was made by mistake, the civilians recovered it back by an action called condictio indebiti; with us, such money may be recovered by an action of assumpsit. I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INCORPOREAL PROPERTY , civil law. That which consists in legal right merely; or, as the term is, in the common law, of choses in actions. Vide Corporeal property. TO INCULPATE . To accuse one of a crime or misdemeanor. INCUMBENT , eccles. law. A cle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INCOMPETENCY , evidence. The want of legal fitness, or ability in a witness to be heard as such on the trial of a cause. 2. The objections to the competency (q. v.) of a witness are four-fold. The first ground is the want of understanding; a second... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INCOMPATIBILITY . offices, rights. This term is used to show that two or more things ought not to exist at the same time in the same person; for example, a man cannot at the same time be landlord and tenant of the same land; heir and devise of the s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 INCENDIARY , crim. law. One who maliciously and wilfully sets another person's house on fire; one guilty of the crime of arson. 2. This offence is punished by the statute laws of the different states according to their several provisions. The civil... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 IN WITNESS WHEREOF . These words, which, when conveyancing was in the Latin language, were in cujus rei testimonium, are the initial words of the concluding clause in deeds. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands, c. INADE... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-15 IN TRANSITU . During the transit, or removal from one place to another. 2. The transit continues until the goods have arrived at their place of destination, and nothing remains to be done to complete the delivery; or until the goods have been delive... 阅读全文>>