INDICIA, civil law. Signs, marks. Example: in replevin, the chattel must possess indicia, or earmarks, by which it can be distinguished from all other...
INDEPENDENCE. A state of perfect irresponsibility to any superior; the United States are free and independent of all earthly power.2. Independence may...
INDEFINITE, NUMBER. A number which may be increased or diminished at pleasure.2. When a corporation is composed of an indefinite number of persons, an...
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 a...
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 Corporea...
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 compet...
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 exampl...
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 p...
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. These words, which, when conveyancing was in the Latin language, were in cujus rei testimonium, are the initial words of the concl...
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 destinat...