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Infeoffment
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InfeoffmentEstates. 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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Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Feoffment
1) The gift of a feud; infeudation. 2) The gift of any corporeal hereditament by delivery of possession upon or within view of the land.
Possession
International law. By possession is meant a country which is held by no other title than mere conquest.
Investiture
Estates. The act of giving possession of lands by actual seisin. When livery of seisin was made to a person by the common law he was invested with the whole fee; this, the foreign feudists and sometimes 'our own law writers call investiture, but generally speaking, it is termed by the common law writers, the seisin of the fee.
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Inference
1) A conclusion drawn by reason from premises established by proof. 2) It is the province of the judge who is to decide upon the facts to draw the inference. When the facts are submitted to the court, the judges draw the inference; when they are to be ascertained by a jury, it is their duty to do so. The witness is not permitted as a general rule to draw an inference, and testify that to the court or jury. It is his duty to state the facts simply as they occurred.
Inferior
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior.
Inferior courts
By this term are understood all courts except the supreme courts. An inferior court is a court of limited jurisdiction, and it must appear on the face of its proceedings tliat it has jurisdiction, or its proceedings. will be void.
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Infamis
Among 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.
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
Inference
1) A conclusion drawn by reason from premises established by proof. 2) It is the province of the judge who is to decide upon the facts to draw the inference. When the facts are submitted to the court, the judges draw the inference; when they are to be ascertained by a jury, it is their duty to do so. The witness is not permitted as a general rule to draw an inference, and testify that to the court or jury. It is his duty to state the facts simply as they occurred.
Inferior
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior.
Inferior courts
By this term are understood all courts except the supreme courts. An inferior court is a court of limited jurisdiction, and it must appear on the face of its proceedings tliat it has jurisdiction, or its proceedings. will be void.
Infidel
Persons, evidence. One who does not believe in the existence of a God, who will reward or punish in this world or that which is to come.
Infirm
Weak, feeble.
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Instrument
Contracts. The writing which contains some agreement, and is so called because it has been prepared as a memorial of what has taken place or been agreed upon.
Feoffment
1) The gift of a feud; infeudation. 2) The gift of any corporeal hereditament by delivery of possession upon or within view of the land.
Possession
International law. By possession is meant a country which is held by no other title than mere conquest.
Investiture
Estates. The act of giving possession of lands by actual seisin. When livery of seisin was made to a person by the common law he was invested with the whole fee; this, the foreign feudists and sometimes 'our own law writers call investiture, but generally speaking, it is termed by the common law writers, the seisin of the fee.
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Inference
1) A conclusion drawn by reason from premises established by proof. 2) It is the province of the judge who is to decide upon the facts to draw the inference. When the facts are submitted to the court, the judges draw the inference; when they are to be ascertained by a jury, it is their duty to do so. The witness is not permitted as a general rule to draw an inference, and testify that to the court or jury. It is his duty to state the facts simply as they occurred.
Inferior
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior.
Inferior courts
By this term are understood all courts except the supreme courts. An inferior court is a court of limited jurisdiction, and it must appear on the face of its proceedings tliat it has jurisdiction, or its proceedings. will be void.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Infamis
Among 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.
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
Inference
1) A conclusion drawn by reason from premises established by proof. 2) It is the province of the judge who is to decide upon the facts to draw the inference. When the facts are submitted to the court, the judges draw the inference; when they are to be ascertained by a jury, it is their duty to do so. The witness is not permitted as a general rule to draw an inference, and testify that to the court or jury. It is his duty to state the facts simply as they occurred.
Inferior
One who in relation to another has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior.
Inferior courts
By this term are understood all courts except the supreme courts. An inferior court is a court of limited jurisdiction, and it must appear on the face of its proceedings tliat it has jurisdiction, or its proceedings. will be void.
Infidel
Persons, evidence. One who does not believe in the existence of a God, who will reward or punish in this world or that which is to come.
Infirm
Weak, feeble.
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