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Incumbent
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IncumbentEcclesiastical law. A clerk resident on his benefice with cure; he is so called because he does, or ought to, bend the whole of his studies to his duties. In common parlance, it signifies one who is in the possession of an office.
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Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Clerk
1) Commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. 2) Ecclesiastical law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk. 3) A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Cure
A restoration to health.
Duties
In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs or imposts.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Possession
International law. By possession is meant a country which is held by no other title than mere conquest.
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
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Inculpate
To inculpate. To accuse one of a crime or misdemeanor.
Incumbrance
Whatever is a lien upon an estate. The right of a third person in the land in question to the diminution of the value of the land, though consistent with the passing of the fee by the deed of conveyance, is an incumbrance.
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Incorporeal
Not consisting of matter.
Incorporeal hereditament
Title, estates. A right issuing out of, or annexed unto a thing corporeal.
Incorporeal property
Civil law. That which consists in legal right merely; or, as the term is, in the common law, of choses in actions.
Incoterms 2000
Incoterms, the internationally accepted and employed terms for contracts of sale, were first published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1936. They were revised in 1953 and reprinted in 1974, including two new terms that had been adopted in 1967, and again in 1976, 1980 and 1990. The latest revision, known as "Incoterms 2000", came into force on January 1, 2000. It modifies some of the existing terms in an updated format for ease of use, providing traders, lawyers, transport officials and insurers with a modern text reflecting the latest changes in the trading environment.
Inculpate
To inculpate. To accuse one of a crime or misdemeanor.
Incumbent
Incumbrance
Whatever is a lien upon an estate. The right of a third person in the land in question to the diminution of the value of the land, though consistent with the passing of the fee by the deed of conveyance, is an incumbrance.
Indebitatus assumpsit
Remedies, pleadings. That species of action of assumpsit, in which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration, first a debt, and then a promise in consideration of the debt, that the defendant, being indebted, he promised the plaintiff to pay him.
Indebiti solutio
Civil law. The payment to one of what is not due to him.
Indebtedness
The state, of being in debt, without regard to the ability or inability of the party to pay the same.
Indecency
An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. The law, in general, will repress indecency as being contrary to good morals, but, when the public good requires it, the mere indecency of disclosures does not suffice to exclude them from being given in evidence.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Clerk
1) Commerce, contract. A person in the employ of a merchant, who attends only to a part of his business, while the merchant himself superintends the whole. 2) Ecclesiastical law. Every individual, who is attached to the ecclesiastical state, and who has submitted to the ceremony of the tonsure, is a clerk. 3) A person employed in an office, public or private, for keeping records or accounts. His business is to write or register, in proper form, the transactions of the tribunal or body to which he belongs. Some clerks, however, have little or no writing to do in their offices, as, the clerk of the market, whose duties are confined chiefly to superintending the markets.
Resident
International law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it is confined to ministers of this class. 2) Persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or shorter period.
Benefice
Ecclesiastical law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity.
Cure
A restoration to health.
Duties
In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs or imposts.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Possession
International law. By possession is meant a country which is held by no other title than mere conquest.
Office
An office is a right to exercise a public function or employment, and to take the fees and emoluments belonging to it
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Inculpate
To inculpate. To accuse one of a crime or misdemeanor.
Incumbrance
Whatever is a lien upon an estate. The right of a third person in the land in question to the diminution of the value of the land, though consistent with the passing of the fee by the deed of conveyance, is an incumbrance.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Incorporeal
Not consisting of matter.
Incorporeal hereditament
Title, estates. A right issuing out of, or annexed unto a thing corporeal.
Incorporeal property
Civil law. That which consists in legal right merely; or, as the term is, in the common law, of choses in actions.
Incoterms 2000
Incoterms, the internationally accepted and employed terms for contracts of sale, were first published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in 1936. They were revised in 1953 and reprinted in 1974, including two new terms that had been adopted in 1967, and again in 1976, 1980 and 1990. The latest revision, known as "Incoterms 2000", came into force on January 1, 2000. It modifies some of the existing terms in an updated format for ease of use, providing traders, lawyers, transport officials and insurers with a modern text reflecting the latest changes in the trading environment.
Inculpate
To inculpate. To accuse one of a crime or misdemeanor.
Incumbent
Incumbrance
Whatever is a lien upon an estate. The right of a third person in the land in question to the diminution of the value of the land, though consistent with the passing of the fee by the deed of conveyance, is an incumbrance.
Indebitatus assumpsit
Remedies, pleadings. That species of action of assumpsit, in which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration, first a debt, and then a promise in consideration of the debt, that the defendant, being indebted, he promised the plaintiff to pay him.
Indebiti solutio
Civil law. The payment to one of what is not due to him.
Indebtedness
The state, of being in debt, without regard to the ability or inability of the party to pay the same.
Indecency
An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. The law, in general, will repress indecency as being contrary to good morals, but, when the public good requires it, the mere indecency of disclosures does not suffice to exclude them from being given in evidence.
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