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Impunity
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ImpunityNot being punished for a crime or misdemeanor committed. The impunity of crimes is one of the most prolific sources whence they arise.
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Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Misdemeanor
In most US states, a crime less serious than a felony for which the maximum sentence is usually not more than one year in a county jail. A sentence usually involves probation, jail time, a fine, or a combination of any or all of these three. Except in certain specific instances, persons convicted of a misdemeanor cannot be sentenced to prison.
Impunity
Not being punished for a crime or misdemeanor committed. The impunity of crimes is one of the most prolific sources whence they arise.
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Impuber
Civil law. One who is more than seven years old, or out of infancy, and who has not attained the age of an adult and who is not yet in his puberty that is, if a boy, till he has attained his full age of fourteen years, and, if a girl, her full age of twelve years.
Imputation
The judgment by which we declare that an agent is the cause of his free action, or of the result of it, whether good or ill.
Imputation of payment
This term is used in Louisiana to signify the appropriation which is made of a payment, when the debtor owes two debts to the creditor.
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Improbation
The act by which perjury or falsehood is proved.
Impropriation
Ecclesiastical law. The act, of employing the revenues of a church living to one's own use; it is also a parsonage or ecclesiastical living in the hands of a layman, or which descends by inheritance.
Improprieties
A polite word for Frauds and wrongdoings.
Improvement
1) Estates. This term is of doubtful meaning It would seem to apply principally to buildings, though generally it extends to amelioration of every description of property, whether real or personal; it is generally explained by other words. 2) Rights. An addition of some useful thing to a machine, manufacture or composition of matter.
Impuber
Civil law. One who is more than seven years old, or out of infancy, and who has not attained the age of an adult and who is not yet in his puberty that is, if a boy, till he has attained his full age of fourteen years, and, if a girl, her full age of twelve years.
Impunity
Imputation
The judgment by which we declare that an agent is the cause of his free action, or of the result of it, whether good or ill.
Imputation of payment
This term is used in Louisiana to signify the appropriation which is made of a payment, when the debtor owes two debts to the creditor.
In alio loco
In another place.
In articulo mortis
In the article of death; at the point of death.
In autre droit
In another's right. An executor, administrator or trustee, is said to have the property confided to him in such character, in autre droit.
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Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law. Each state sets out a limited series of acts (crimes) which are prohibited and punishes the commission of these acts by a fine, imprisonment or some other form of punishment. In exceptional cases, an omission to act can constitute a crime, such as failing to give assistance to a person in peril or failing to report a case of child abuse.
Misdemeanor
In most US states, a crime less serious than a felony for which the maximum sentence is usually not more than one year in a county jail. A sentence usually involves probation, jail time, a fine, or a combination of any or all of these three. Except in certain specific instances, persons convicted of a misdemeanor cannot be sentenced to prison.
Impunity
Not being punished for a crime or misdemeanor committed. The impunity of crimes is one of the most prolific sources whence they arise.
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Impuber
Civil law. One who is more than seven years old, or out of infancy, and who has not attained the age of an adult and who is not yet in his puberty that is, if a boy, till he has attained his full age of fourteen years, and, if a girl, her full age of twelve years.
Imputation
The judgment by which we declare that an agent is the cause of his free action, or of the result of it, whether good or ill.
Imputation of payment
This term is used in Louisiana to signify the appropriation which is made of a payment, when the debtor owes two debts to the creditor.
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Improbation
The act by which perjury or falsehood is proved.
Impropriation
Ecclesiastical law. The act, of employing the revenues of a church living to one's own use; it is also a parsonage or ecclesiastical living in the hands of a layman, or which descends by inheritance.
Improprieties
A polite word for Frauds and wrongdoings.
Improvement
1) Estates. This term is of doubtful meaning It would seem to apply principally to buildings, though generally it extends to amelioration of every description of property, whether real or personal; it is generally explained by other words. 2) Rights. An addition of some useful thing to a machine, manufacture or composition of matter.
Impuber
Civil law. One who is more than seven years old, or out of infancy, and who has not attained the age of an adult and who is not yet in his puberty that is, if a boy, till he has attained his full age of fourteen years, and, if a girl, her full age of twelve years.
Impunity
Imputation
The judgment by which we declare that an agent is the cause of his free action, or of the result of it, whether good or ill.
Imputation of payment
This term is used in Louisiana to signify the appropriation which is made of a payment, when the debtor owes two debts to the creditor.
In alio loco
In another place.
In articulo mortis
In the article of death; at the point of death.
In autre droit
In another's right. An executor, administrator or trustee, is said to have the property confided to him in such character, in autre droit.
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