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Innocence






Innocence

The absence of guilt.

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Guilt
Criminal law. That quality which renders criminal and liable to punishment; or it is that disposition to violate the law, which has manifested itself by some act already done. The opposite of innocence.



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Innocent conveyances
This term is used in England, technically, to signify those conveyances made by a tenant of his leasehold, which do not occasion a forfeiture these are conveyances by lease and release, bargain and sale, and a covenant to stand seised by a tenant for life.

Innominate contracts
Civil law. Contracts which have no particular names, as permutation and transaction, are so called.

Innotescimus
English law. An epithet used for letters-patent, which are always of a charter of feoffment, or some other instrument not of record, concluding with the words Innotescimus per praesentes.

Innovation
Scotch law. The exchange of one obligation for another, so that the second shall come in the place of the first.



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One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house.

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A house where a traveller is furnished with every thing he has occasion for while on his way.

Innavigable
Not capable of being navigated.

Innings
Estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining.

Innkeeper
He is defined to be the keeper of a common inn for the lodging and entertainment of travellers and passengers, their horses and attendants, for a reasonable compensation.

Innocence

Innocent conveyances
This term is used in England, technically, to signify those conveyances made by a tenant of his leasehold, which do not occasion a forfeiture these are conveyances by lease and release, bargain and sale, and a covenant to stand seised by a tenant for life.

Innominate contracts
Civil law. Contracts which have no particular names, as permutation and transaction, are so called.

Innotescimus
English law. An epithet used for letters-patent, which are always of a charter of feoffment, or some other instrument not of record, concluding with the words Innotescimus per praesentes.

Innovation
Scotch law. The exchange of one obligation for another, so that the second shall come in the place of the first.

Inns of court
English law. 1) The name given to the colleges of the English professors and students of the common law. 2) The four principal Inns of Court are the Inner Temple and Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.

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