INVENTORY. A list, schedule, or enumeration in writing, containing, article by article, the goods and chattels, rights and credits, and, in some cases...
INTRUSION, remedies. The name of a writ, brought by the owner of a fee simple, &c., against an intruder. New Nat. Br. 453.INUNDATION. The overflow...
INTESTATE. One who, having lawful power to make a will, has made none, or one which is defective in form. In that case, he is said to die intestate, a...
INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's.2. Interruption of the use of...
INTERPRETER. One employed to make a translation. (q v.)2. An interpreter should be sworn before he translates the testimony of a witness. 4 Mass. 81; ...
INTERPRETATION. The explication of a law, agreement, will, or other instrument, which appears obscure or ambiguous.2. The object of interpretation is ...
INTERLOCUTORY. This word is applied to signify something which is done between the commencement and the end of a suit or action which decides some poi...
INTEREST, MARITIME. By maritime interest is understood the profit of money lent on bottomry or respondentia, which is allowed to be greater than simpl...
INTEREST FOR MONEY, contracts. The compensation which is paid by the borrower to the lender or b the debtor to the creditor for its use.2. It is propo...
INTERESSE TERMINI, estates. An interest in the term. The demise of a term in land does not vest any estate in the lessee, but gives him a mere right o...