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Indecency
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IndecencyAn 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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Behaviour
In old English, haviour without the prefix be. It is the manner of having, holding, or keeping one's self or the carriage of one's self with respect to propriety, morals, and the requirements of law. Surety to be of -good behaviour is a larger requirement than surety to keep the peace.
Just
This epithet is applied to that which agrees with a given law which is the test of right and wrong. It is that which accords with the perfect rights of others. By just is also understood full and perfect, as a just weight.
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.
General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
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.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Mere
This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
Evidence
Proof of fact(s) presented at a trial. The best and most common method is by oral testimony; where you have an eye-witness swear to tell the truth and to then relate to the court (or jury) their experience. Evidence is essential in convincing the judge or jury of your facts as the judge (or jury) is expected to start off with a blank slate; no preconceived idea or knowledge of the facts. So it is up to the opposing parties to prove (by providing evidence), to the satisfaction of the court (or jury), the facts needed to support their case. Besides oral testimony, an object can be deposited with the court (eg. a signed contract). This is sometimes called "real evidence." In other rarer cases, evidence can be circumstantial.
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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.
Indefeasible
That which cannot be defeated or undone. This epithet is usually applied to an estate or right which cannot be defeated.
Indefensus
One sued or impleaded, who refuses or has nothing to answer.
Indefinite
That which is undefined; uncertain.
Indefinite failure of issue
Executory devise. A general failure of issue, whenever it may happen, without fixing a time, or certain or definite period, within which it must take place. The issue of the first taker must be extinct, and the issue of the issue ad infinitum, without regard to the time or any particular event.
Indefinite legacy
A request of things which are not enumerated or ascertained as to numbers or quantities; as, a bequest by a testator of all his goods, all his stocks in the funds.
Indefinite payment
Contracts. That which a debtor who owes several debts to a creditor, makes without making an appropriation; in that case the creditor has a right to make such appropriation.
Indefinite, number
A number which may be increased or diminished at pleasure.
Indemnification-hold harmless clause
A term providing for the obligation by one party in a contract to defend another party against a stated loss or liability covered by the contract, such as copyright infringement or defamation.
Indemnity
That which is given to a person to prevent his suffering damage. Sometimes it signifies diminution; a tenant who has been interrupted in the enjoyment of his lease may require an indemnity from the lessor, that is, a reduction of his rent.
Indemnity policy
A liability insurance policy that provides protection from claims arising from injury or damage to other people or their property. An indemnity policy is less adapted to direct action than a liability policy because it requires that the insured have already paid the claim (“pay first” or “pay to be paid”), before the insurer is obliged to indemnify the insured.
Indenture
Conveyancing. An instrument of writing containing a conveyance or contract between two or more persons, usually indented or cut unevenly, or in and out, on the top or, side.
Independence
A state of perfect irresponsibility to any superior.
Independent contract
One in which the mutual acts or promises have no relation to each other, either as equivalents or considerations.
Independent contractor
A self-employed person who contracts with others to perform a service. Contractors are not "employees" under federal and state law and are not guaranteed the same benefits given to regular, or employees.
Independent executor
A special kind of executor, permitted by the laws of certain states, who performs the duties of an executor without intervention by the court.
Indeterminate
That which is uncertain or not particularly designated.
Indeterminate sentence
A sentence of imprisonment to a specified minimum and maximum period of time, specifically authorized by statute, subject to termination by a parole board or other authorized agency after the prisoner has served the minimum term.
Indeterminate sentencing
In most US states, convicted offenders (with few exceptions) are given a minimum and a maximum portion to their sentences. The maximum is usually determined by law, and the minimum is set by a judge with the legal restriction that it is not to exceed two-thirds of the maximum. The Parole Board has jurisdiction over the prisoner when he or she has served the minimum portion of the sentence.
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Incumbent
Ecclesiastical 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.
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
Indefeasible
That which cannot be defeated or undone. This epithet is usually applied to an estate or right which cannot be defeated.
Indefensus
One sued or impleaded, who refuses or has nothing to answer.
Indefinite
That which is undefined; uncertain.
Indefinite failure of issue
Executory devise. A general failure of issue, whenever it may happen, without fixing a time, or certain or definite period, within which it must take place. The issue of the first taker must be extinct, and the issue of the issue ad infinitum, without regard to the time or any particular event.
Indefinite legacy
A request of things which are not enumerated or ascertained as to numbers or quantities; as, a bequest by a testator of all his goods, all his stocks in the funds.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Behaviour
In old English, haviour without the prefix be. It is the manner of having, holding, or keeping one's self or the carriage of one's self with respect to propriety, morals, and the requirements of law. Surety to be of -good behaviour is a larger requirement than surety to keep the peace.
Just
This epithet is applied to that which agrees with a given law which is the test of right and wrong. It is that which accords with the perfect rights of others. By just is also understood full and perfect, as a just weight.
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.
General
1) A principal officer, particularly in the army. 2) Something opposed to special; as, a general verdict, the general issue, which expressions are used in contradistinction to special verdict, special issue. 3) Principal, as the general post office. 4) Not select, as a general ship. 5) Not particular, as a general custom. 5) Not limited, as general jurisdiction. 7) This word is sometimes annexed or prefixed to other words to express or limit the extent of their signification; as Attorney General, Solicitor General, the General Assembly.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
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.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Mere
This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
Evidence
Proof of fact(s) presented at a trial. The best and most common method is by oral testimony; where you have an eye-witness swear to tell the truth and to then relate to the court (or jury) their experience. Evidence is essential in convincing the judge or jury of your facts as the judge (or jury) is expected to start off with a blank slate; no preconceived idea or knowledge of the facts. So it is up to the opposing parties to prove (by providing evidence), to the satisfaction of the court (or jury), the facts needed to support their case. Besides oral testimony, an object can be deposited with the court (eg. a signed contract). This is sometimes called "real evidence." In other rarer cases, evidence can be circumstantial.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Indefeasible
That which cannot be defeated or undone. This epithet is usually applied to an estate or right which cannot be defeated.
Indefensus
One sued or impleaded, who refuses or has nothing to answer.
Indefinite
That which is undefined; uncertain.
Indefinite failure of issue
Executory devise. A general failure of issue, whenever it may happen, without fixing a time, or certain or definite period, within which it must take place. The issue of the first taker must be extinct, and the issue of the issue ad infinitum, without regard to the time or any particular event.
Indefinite legacy
A request of things which are not enumerated or ascertained as to numbers or quantities; as, a bequest by a testator of all his goods, all his stocks in the funds.
Indefinite payment
Contracts. That which a debtor who owes several debts to a creditor, makes without making an appropriation; in that case the creditor has a right to make such appropriation.
Indefinite, number
A number which may be increased or diminished at pleasure.
Indemnification-hold harmless clause
A term providing for the obligation by one party in a contract to defend another party against a stated loss or liability covered by the contract, such as copyright infringement or defamation.
Indemnity
That which is given to a person to prevent his suffering damage. Sometimes it signifies diminution; a tenant who has been interrupted in the enjoyment of his lease may require an indemnity from the lessor, that is, a reduction of his rent.
Indemnity policy
A liability insurance policy that provides protection from claims arising from injury or damage to other people or their property. An indemnity policy is less adapted to direct action than a liability policy because it requires that the insured have already paid the claim (“pay first” or “pay to be paid”), before the insurer is obliged to indemnify the insured.
Indenture
Conveyancing. An instrument of writing containing a conveyance or contract between two or more persons, usually indented or cut unevenly, or in and out, on the top or, side.
Independence
A state of perfect irresponsibility to any superior.
Independent contract
One in which the mutual acts or promises have no relation to each other, either as equivalents or considerations.
Independent contractor
A self-employed person who contracts with others to perform a service. Contractors are not "employees" under federal and state law and are not guaranteed the same benefits given to regular, or employees.
Independent executor
A special kind of executor, permitted by the laws of certain states, who performs the duties of an executor without intervention by the court.
Indeterminate
That which is uncertain or not particularly designated.
Indeterminate sentence
A sentence of imprisonment to a specified minimum and maximum period of time, specifically authorized by statute, subject to termination by a parole board or other authorized agency after the prisoner has served the minimum term.
Indeterminate sentencing
In most US states, convicted offenders (with few exceptions) are given a minimum and a maximum portion to their sentences. The maximum is usually determined by law, and the minimum is set by a judge with the legal restriction that it is not to exceed two-thirds of the maximum. The Parole Board has jurisdiction over the prisoner when he or she has served the minimum portion of the sentence.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Incumbent
Ecclesiastical 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.
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
Indefeasible
That which cannot be defeated or undone. This epithet is usually applied to an estate or right which cannot be defeated.
Indefensus
One sued or impleaded, who refuses or has nothing to answer.
Indefinite
That which is undefined; uncertain.
Indefinite failure of issue
Executory devise. A general failure of issue, whenever it may happen, without fixing a time, or certain or definite period, within which it must take place. The issue of the first taker must be extinct, and the issue of the issue ad infinitum, without regard to the time or any particular event.
Indefinite legacy
A request of things which are not enumerated or ascertained as to numbers or quantities; as, a bequest by a testator of all his goods, all his stocks in the funds.
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