TO IMPANEL, practice. The writing the names of a jury on a schedule, by the sheriff or other officer lawfully authorized.IMPARLANCE, pleading and prac...
IMMORAL CONSIDERATION. One contrary to good morals, and therefore invalid. See Moral obligation.IMMORALITY. that which is contra bonos mores. In Engla...
IMMATERIAL. What is not essential; unimportant what is not requisite; what is informal; as, an immaterial averment, an immaterial issue.2. When a witn...
ILLITERATE. This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters.2. When an ignorant man, unable to read, signs a deed or agreement, or makes his mar...
ILLICITE. Unlawfully.2. This word has a technical meaning, and is requisite in an indictment where the act charged is unlawful; as, in the case of a r...
ILL FAME. This is a technical expression, that which means not only bad character as generally understood, but every person, whatever may be his condu...
IGNORANCE. The want of knowledge.2. Ignorance is distinguishable from error. Ignorance is want of knowledge; error is the non-conformity or opposition...
IDIOT, Persons. A person who has been without understanding from his nativity, and whom the law, therefore, presumes never likely to attain any. Shelf...
IDES, NONES and CALENDS, civil law. This mode of computing time, formerly in use among the Romans, is yet used in several chanceries in, Europe, parti...
IBIDEM. This word is used in references, when it is intended to say that a thing is to be found in the same place, or that the reference has for its o...