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Infamis
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InfamisAmong the Romans was of a general rule, and not by virtue of an arbitrary decision of the censors, lost his political rights, but preserved his civil rights.
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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.
Rule
This is a metaphorical expression borrowed from mechanics. The rule, in its proper and natural sense, is an instrument by means of which may be drawn from one point to another, the shortest possible line, which is called a straight line.
Arbitrary
What depends on the will of the judge, not regulated or established by law.
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Lost
What was once possessed and cannot now be found.
Political
Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
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Infancy
1) Criminal law, evidence. That state which is produced by the conviction of crime and the loss of honor, which renders the infamous person incompetent as a witness. 2) The state or condition of a person under tho age of twenty-one years.
Infant
Persons. One under the age of twenty-one years.
Infanticide
Murder of an infant soon after its birth.
Infasticide
Medical juris. The murder of a new born infant.
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Induction
Ecclesiastical law. The giving a clerk, instituted to a benefice, the actual possession of its temporalties, in the nature of livery of seisin.
Indulgence
A favor granted. It is a general rule that where a creditor gives .indulgence, by entering into a binding contract with a principal debtor, by which the surety is or may be damnified, such surety is discharged, because the creditor has put it out of his power to enforce immediate payment; when the surety would have a right to require him to do so.
Industrial tribunal
Industrial Tribunals have powers to hear unfair dismissal, discrimination and other cases in relation to statutory employment rights as well as some breach of contract actions.
Ineligibility
The incapacity to be lawfully elected.
Inevitable accident
A term used in the civil law, nearly synonymous with fortuitous. event. In the common law commonly called the ad of God.
Infamis
Infancy
1) Criminal law, evidence. That state which is produced by the conviction of crime and the loss of honor, which renders the infamous person incompetent as a witness. 2) The state or condition of a person under tho age of twenty-one years.
Infant
Persons. One under the age of twenty-one years.
Infanticide
Murder of an infant soon after its birth.
Infasticide
Medical juris. The murder of a new born infant.
Infeoffment
Estates. The act or instrument of feoffment. In Scotland it is synonymous with saisine, meaning the instrument of possession; formerly it was synonymous with investiture.
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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.
Rule
This is a metaphorical expression borrowed from mechanics. The rule, in its proper and natural sense, is an instrument by means of which may be drawn from one point to another, the shortest possible line, which is called a straight line.
Arbitrary
What depends on the will of the judge, not regulated or established by law.
Decision
Practice. A judgment given by a competent tribunal. The French lawyers call the opinions which they give on questions propounded to them, decisions.
Lost
What was once possessed and cannot now be found.
Political
Pertaining to policy, or the administration of the government. Political rights are those which may be exercised in the formation or administration of the government they are distinguished from civil, rights, which are the rights which a man enjoys, as regards other individuals, and not in relation to the government. A political corporation is one which has principally for its object the administration of the government, or to which the powers of government, or a part of such powers, have been delegated.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
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Infancy
1) Criminal law, evidence. That state which is produced by the conviction of crime and the loss of honor, which renders the infamous person incompetent as a witness. 2) The state or condition of a person under tho age of twenty-one years.
Infant
Persons. One under the age of twenty-one years.
Infanticide
Murder of an infant soon after its birth.
Infasticide
Medical juris. The murder of a new born infant.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Induction
Ecclesiastical law. The giving a clerk, instituted to a benefice, the actual possession of its temporalties, in the nature of livery of seisin.
Indulgence
A favor granted. It is a general rule that where a creditor gives .indulgence, by entering into a binding contract with a principal debtor, by which the surety is or may be damnified, such surety is discharged, because the creditor has put it out of his power to enforce immediate payment; when the surety would have a right to require him to do so.
Industrial tribunal
Industrial Tribunals have powers to hear unfair dismissal, discrimination and other cases in relation to statutory employment rights as well as some breach of contract actions.
Ineligibility
The incapacity to be lawfully elected.
Inevitable accident
A term used in the civil law, nearly synonymous with fortuitous. event. In the common law commonly called the ad of God.
Infamis
Infancy
1) Criminal law, evidence. That state which is produced by the conviction of crime and the loss of honor, which renders the infamous person incompetent as a witness. 2) The state or condition of a person under tho age of twenty-one years.
Infant
Persons. One under the age of twenty-one years.
Infanticide
Murder of an infant soon after its birth.
Infasticide
Medical juris. The murder of a new born infant.
Infeoffment
Estates. The act or instrument of feoffment. In Scotland it is synonymous with saisine, meaning the instrument of possession; formerly it was synonymous with investiture.
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