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 i...
INFRA CORPUS COMITATUS. Within the body of the countt.2. The common law courts have jurisdiction infra corpus comitatus; the admiralty, on the contrar...
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. Informatio...
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 ...
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 t...
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....
INELIGIBILITY. The incapacity to be lawfully elected.2. This incapacity arises from various, causes, and a person may be incapable of being elected to...
INDORSER, contracts. The person who makes an indorsement.2. The indorser of a bill of exchange, or other negotiable paper, by his indorsement undertak...
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 coun...
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. ...