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Inquisitor
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Inquisitor"1) A designation of sheriffs, coroners, super visum corporis, and the like, who have power to inquire into certain matters. 2) The name, of an officer, among ecclesiastics, who is authorized to inquire into heresies, and the like, and to punish them. An ecclesiastical judge.
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Designation
Wills. The expression used by a testator, instead of the name of the person or the thing he is desirous to name.
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
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Inquest
A body of men appointed by law to inquire into certain matters; as, the inquest examined into the facts connected with the alleged murder; the grand jury, is sometimes called the grand inquest. The judicial inquiry itself is also called an inquest. The finding of such men, upon an investigation, is also called an inquest or an inquisition.
Inquest of office
An examination into a matter by an officer in virtue of his office.
Inquiry, writ of
A writ of inquiry is one issued where a judgment has been entered in a case sounding in damages, without any particular amount being ascertained; this writ is for the purpose of ascertaining the amount to which the plaintiff is entitled.
Inquisition
Practice. An examination of certain facts by a jury impannelled by the sheriff for the purpose; the instrument of writing on which their decision is made is also called an inquisition.
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Inops consilii
Destitute or without counsel. In the construction of wills a greater latitude is given, because the testator is supposed to have been inops consilii.
Inquest
A body of men appointed by law to inquire into certain matters; as, the inquest examined into the facts connected with the alleged murder; the grand jury, is sometimes called the grand inquest. The judicial inquiry itself is also called an inquest. The finding of such men, upon an investigation, is also called an inquest or an inquisition.
Inquest of office
An examination into a matter by an officer in virtue of his office.
Inquiry, writ of
A writ of inquiry is one issued where a judgment has been entered in a case sounding in damages, without any particular amount being ascertained; this writ is for the purpose of ascertaining the amount to which the plaintiff is entitled.
Inquisition
Practice. An examination of certain facts by a jury impannelled by the sheriff for the purpose; the instrument of writing on which their decision is made is also called an inquisition.
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Inrollment
The act of putting upon a roll. Formerly, the record of a suit was kept on skins of parchment, which, best to preserve them, were kept upon a roll or in the form of a roll; what was written upon them was called the inrollment. After, when such records came to be kept in books, the making up of the record retained the old name of inrollment.
Insane
One deprived of the use of reason, after he has arrived at the age when he ought to have it, either by a natural defect or by accident.
Inscription
1) Civil law. An engagerment which a person, who makes a solemn accusation of a crime against another, enters into, that he will suffer the same punishment, if he has accused, the other falsely, which would have been inflicted upon him had he been guilty. 2) Evidence. Something written or engraved.
Inscriptiones
The name given by the old English law to any written instrument by which anything was granted. Blount.
Insensible
In the language of pleading, that which is unintelligible is said to be insensible.
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Designation
Wills. The expression used by a testator, instead of the name of the person or the thing he is desirous to name.
Power
This is either inherent or derivative. The former is the right, ability, or faculty of doing something, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. The people have the power to establish a form of govemment, or to change one already established. A father has the legal power to chastise his son; a master, his apprentice.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Ecclesiastics
Canon law. Those persons who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular.
Ecclesiastical
Belonging to, or set apart for the church.
Judge
An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law.
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Inquest
A body of men appointed by law to inquire into certain matters; as, the inquest examined into the facts connected with the alleged murder; the grand jury, is sometimes called the grand inquest. The judicial inquiry itself is also called an inquest. The finding of such men, upon an investigation, is also called an inquest or an inquisition.
Inquest of office
An examination into a matter by an officer in virtue of his office.
Inquiry, writ of
A writ of inquiry is one issued where a judgment has been entered in a case sounding in damages, without any particular amount being ascertained; this writ is for the purpose of ascertaining the amount to which the plaintiff is entitled.
Inquisition
Practice. An examination of certain facts by a jury impannelled by the sheriff for the purpose; the instrument of writing on which their decision is made is also called an inquisition.
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Inops consilii
Destitute or without counsel. In the construction of wills a greater latitude is given, because the testator is supposed to have been inops consilii.
Inquest
A body of men appointed by law to inquire into certain matters; as, the inquest examined into the facts connected with the alleged murder; the grand jury, is sometimes called the grand inquest. The judicial inquiry itself is also called an inquest. The finding of such men, upon an investigation, is also called an inquest or an inquisition.
Inquest of office
An examination into a matter by an officer in virtue of his office.
Inquiry, writ of
A writ of inquiry is one issued where a judgment has been entered in a case sounding in damages, without any particular amount being ascertained; this writ is for the purpose of ascertaining the amount to which the plaintiff is entitled.
Inquisition
Practice. An examination of certain facts by a jury impannelled by the sheriff for the purpose; the instrument of writing on which their decision is made is also called an inquisition.
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Inrollment
The act of putting upon a roll. Formerly, the record of a suit was kept on skins of parchment, which, best to preserve them, were kept upon a roll or in the form of a roll; what was written upon them was called the inrollment. After, when such records came to be kept in books, the making up of the record retained the old name of inrollment.
Insane
One deprived of the use of reason, after he has arrived at the age when he ought to have it, either by a natural defect or by accident.
Inscription
1) Civil law. An engagerment which a person, who makes a solemn accusation of a crime against another, enters into, that he will suffer the same punishment, if he has accused, the other falsely, which would have been inflicted upon him had he been guilty. 2) Evidence. Something written or engraved.
Inscriptiones
The name given by the old English law to any written instrument by which anything was granted. Blount.
Insensible
In the language of pleading, that which is unintelligible is said to be insensible.
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