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Illusion
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IllusionA species of mania in which the sensibility of the nervous system is altered, excited, weakened or perverted. The patient is deceived by the false appearance of things, and his reason is not sufficiently active and powerful to correct the error, and this last particular is what distinguishes the sane from the insane.
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Mania
Medical jurisprudence. This subject will be considered by examining it, first, in a medical point of view; and, secondly, as to its legal consequences. Mania may be divided into intellectual and moral.
False
Not true; as, false pretences; unjust, unlawful, as, false imprisonment. This his word, is frequently used in composition.
Appearance
The act of showing up in court as either plaintiff, defendant, accused or any other party to a civil or criminal suit. It implies that you accept the power of the court to try the matter (i.e. "jurisdiction"). Appearances are most often made by lawyers on their clients behalf and any appearance by a lawyer binds the client. You can make a limited appearance called a "special appearance" in which your presence is not to imply acceptance of the court's jurisdiction but, rather, to challenge the jurisdiction of the court. An example of the usefulness of a "special appearance" would be where you want to raise the fact that you were never properly served with the court papers.
Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.
Reason
By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends
Active
The opposite of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us;passive debts are those we owe.
Insane
One deprived of the use of reason, after he has arrived at the age when he ought to have it, either by a natural defect or by accident.
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Illusory appointment
Chancery practice. Such an appointment or disposition of property under a power as is merely nominal and not substantial.
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Illegitimate
That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child.
Illeviable
A debt or duty that cannot or ought not to be levied. Nihil set upon a debt is a mark for illeviable.
Illicit
What is unlawful what is forbidden by the law.
Illicite
1) Unlawfully. 2) This word has a technical meaning, and is requisite in an indictment where the act charged is unlawful.
Illiterate
This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters.
Illusion
Illusory appointment
Chancery practice. Such an appointment or disposition of property under a power as is merely nominal and not substantial.
Imbecility
Medical jur. A weakness of the mind, caused by the absence or obliteration of natural or acquired ideas; or it is described to be an abnormal deficiency either in those faculties which acquaint us with the qualities and ordinary relations of things, or in those which furnish us with the moral motives that regulate our relations and conduct towards our fellow men. It is frequently attended with excessive activity. of one or more of the animal propensities.
Immaterial
What is not essential; unimportant what is not requisite; what is informal.
Immaterial issue
One taken on a point not proper to decide the action.
Immediate
That which is produced directly by the act to which it is ascribed, without the intervention or agency of any distinct intermediate cause.
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Mania
Medical jurisprudence. This subject will be considered by examining it, first, in a medical point of view; and, secondly, as to its legal consequences. Mania may be divided into intellectual and moral.
False
Not true; as, false pretences; unjust, unlawful, as, false imprisonment. This his word, is frequently used in composition.
Appearance
The act of showing up in court as either plaintiff, defendant, accused or any other party to a civil or criminal suit. It implies that you accept the power of the court to try the matter (i.e. "jurisdiction"). Appearances are most often made by lawyers on their clients behalf and any appearance by a lawyer binds the client. You can make a limited appearance called a "special appearance" in which your presence is not to imply acceptance of the court's jurisdiction but, rather, to challenge the jurisdiction of the court. An example of the usefulness of a "special appearance" would be where you want to raise the fact that you were never properly served with the court papers.
Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.
Reason
By reason is usually understood that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong; and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends
Active
The opposite of passive. We say active debts, or debts due to us;passive debts are those we owe.
Insane
One deprived of the use of reason, after he has arrived at the age when he ought to have it, either by a natural defect or by accident.
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Illusory appointment
Chancery practice. Such an appointment or disposition of property under a power as is merely nominal and not substantial.
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Illegitimate
That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child.
Illeviable
A debt or duty that cannot or ought not to be levied. Nihil set upon a debt is a mark for illeviable.
Illicit
What is unlawful what is forbidden by the law.
Illicite
1) Unlawfully. 2) This word has a technical meaning, and is requisite in an indictment where the act charged is unlawful.
Illiterate
This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters.
Illusion
Illusory appointment
Chancery practice. Such an appointment or disposition of property under a power as is merely nominal and not substantial.
Imbecility
Medical jur. A weakness of the mind, caused by the absence or obliteration of natural or acquired ideas; or it is described to be an abnormal deficiency either in those faculties which acquaint us with the qualities and ordinary relations of things, or in those which furnish us with the moral motives that regulate our relations and conduct towards our fellow men. It is frequently attended with excessive activity. of one or more of the animal propensities.
Immaterial
What is not essential; unimportant what is not requisite; what is informal.
Immaterial issue
One taken on a point not proper to decide the action.
Immediate
That which is produced directly by the act to which it is ascribed, without the intervention or agency of any distinct intermediate cause.
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