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InstanceCivil and French law. It signifies, generally, all sorts of actions and judicial demands.
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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.
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.
Judicial
Belonging, or emanating from a judge, as such.
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Installation
Installation or instalment. The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill.
Instalment
1) Instalment or installation. The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill. 2) Contracts. A part of a debt due by contract, and agreed to be paid at a time different from that fixed for the, payment of the other part.
Instance court
English law. The English court of admiralty is divided into two distinct tribunals; the one having, generally, all the jurisdiction of the admiralty, except in prize cases, is called the instance court; the other, acting under a special commission, distinct from the usual commission given to judges of the admiralty, to enable the judge in time of war to assume the jurisdiction of prizes, and called Prize court.
Instant
An indivisible space of time.
Instanter
Immediately; presently. This term, it is said, means that the act to which it applies, shall be done within twenty-four hours but a doubt has been suggested by whom is the account of the hours to be kept, and whether the term instanter as applied to the subject-matter may not be more properly taken to mean "before, the rising of the court," when the act is to be done in court; or, "before the shutting of the office the same night," when the act is to be done there.
Instar
Likeness; resemblance; equivalent as, instar dentium, like teeth; instar omnium, equivalent to all.
Instigation
The act by which one incites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to coramence a suit or to prosecute a criminal.
Institor
Civil law. A clerk in a store an agent. He was so called because he watched over the business with which he was charged; and it is immaterial whether he was employed in making a sale in a store, or whether charged with any other business.
Institute
Scotch law. The person first called in the tailzie; the rest, or the heirs of tailzie, are called substitutes.
Institute of international container lessors
The trade association for the international container and chassis leasing industry and leading publisher of inspection and repair publications for container and chassis.
Institute of marine and environmental law
A specialized institute within the University of Cape Town, South Africa, which provides teaching and research facilities in regard to the public law of the sea.
Institute of maritime law
A specialized institute within the Faculty of Law of the University of Southampton, whi ch provides maritime law courses for practitioners and students.
Institution
1) Ecclesiastical law. The act by which the ordinary commits the cure of souls to a person presented to a benefice. 2) Political law. That which has been established and settled by law for the public good; 3) Practice. The commencement of an action.
Institution of heir
Civil law. The act by which a testator nominates one or more persons to succeed him in all his rights, active and passive.
Instruction
French law. This word signifies the meaus used and formality employed to prepare a case for trial. it is generally applied to criminal cases, and is then called criminal, instruction; it is then defined the acts and proceedings which tend to prove positively a crime or delict, in order to inflict on the guilty person the punishment which he deserves.
Instructional text
A literary pictorial, or graphic work prepared for publication and with the purpose of use in systematic instructional activities.
Instructions
1) Practice. The statements of a cause of action, given by a client to his attorney, and which, where such is the practice, are sent to his pleader to put into legal form of a declaration. 2) Common law, Contracts. Orders given by a principal to his agent in relation to the business of his agency.
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.
Instrumenta
This word is properly applied to designate that kind of evidence, which consists of writings not under seal, as court rolls, accounts, and the like.
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Inspection
1) Common law. The examination of certain articles made by law subject to such examination, so that they may be declared fit for commerce. The decision of the inspectors is not final; the object' of the law is to protect the community from fraud, and to preserve the character of the merchandise abroad. 2) Practice. Examination.
Inspector
The name given to certain officers whose duties are to examine and inspect things over which they have jurisdiction.
Inspeximus
We have seen. A word sometimes used in letters-patent, reciting a grant, inspeximus such former grant, and so reciting it verbatim; it then grants such further privileges as are thought convenient.
Installation
Installation or instalment. The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill.
Instalment
1) Instalment or installation. The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill. 2) Contracts. A part of a debt due by contract, and agreed to be paid at a time different from that fixed for the, payment of the other part.
Instance
Instance court
English law. The English court of admiralty is divided into two distinct tribunals; the one having, generally, all the jurisdiction of the admiralty, except in prize cases, is called the instance court; the other, acting under a special commission, distinct from the usual commission given to judges of the admiralty, to enable the judge in time of war to assume the jurisdiction of prizes, and called Prize court.
Instant
An indivisible space of time.
Instanter
Immediately; presently. This term, it is said, means that the act to which it applies, shall be done within twenty-four hours but a doubt has been suggested by whom is the account of the hours to be kept, and whether the term instanter as applied to the subject-matter may not be more properly taken to mean "before, the rising of the court," when the act is to be done in court; or, "before the shutting of the office the same night," when the act is to be done there.
Instar
Likeness; resemblance; equivalent as, instar dentium, like teeth; instar omnium, equivalent to all.
Instigation
The act by which one incites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to coramence a suit or to prosecute a criminal.
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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.
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.
Judicial
Belonging, or emanating from a judge, as such.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Installation
Installation or instalment. The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill.
Instalment
1) Instalment or installation. The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill. 2) Contracts. A part of a debt due by contract, and agreed to be paid at a time different from that fixed for the, payment of the other part.
Instance court
English law. The English court of admiralty is divided into two distinct tribunals; the one having, generally, all the jurisdiction of the admiralty, except in prize cases, is called the instance court; the other, acting under a special commission, distinct from the usual commission given to judges of the admiralty, to enable the judge in time of war to assume the jurisdiction of prizes, and called Prize court.
Instant
An indivisible space of time.
Instanter
Immediately; presently. This term, it is said, means that the act to which it applies, shall be done within twenty-four hours but a doubt has been suggested by whom is the account of the hours to be kept, and whether the term instanter as applied to the subject-matter may not be more properly taken to mean "before, the rising of the court," when the act is to be done in court; or, "before the shutting of the office the same night," when the act is to be done there.
Instar
Likeness; resemblance; equivalent as, instar dentium, like teeth; instar omnium, equivalent to all.
Instigation
The act by which one incites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to coramence a suit or to prosecute a criminal.
Institor
Civil law. A clerk in a store an agent. He was so called because he watched over the business with which he was charged; and it is immaterial whether he was employed in making a sale in a store, or whether charged with any other business.
Institute
Scotch law. The person first called in the tailzie; the rest, or the heirs of tailzie, are called substitutes.
Institute of international container lessors
The trade association for the international container and chassis leasing industry and leading publisher of inspection and repair publications for container and chassis.
Institute of marine and environmental law
A specialized institute within the University of Cape Town, South Africa, which provides teaching and research facilities in regard to the public law of the sea.
Institute of maritime law
A specialized institute within the Faculty of Law of the University of Southampton, whi ch provides maritime law courses for practitioners and students.
Institution
1) Ecclesiastical law. The act by which the ordinary commits the cure of souls to a person presented to a benefice. 2) Political law. That which has been established and settled by law for the public good; 3) Practice. The commencement of an action.
Institution of heir
Civil law. The act by which a testator nominates one or more persons to succeed him in all his rights, active and passive.
Instruction
French law. This word signifies the meaus used and formality employed to prepare a case for trial. it is generally applied to criminal cases, and is then called criminal, instruction; it is then defined the acts and proceedings which tend to prove positively a crime or delict, in order to inflict on the guilty person the punishment which he deserves.
Instructional text
A literary pictorial, or graphic work prepared for publication and with the purpose of use in systematic instructional activities.
Instructions
1) Practice. The statements of a cause of action, given by a client to his attorney, and which, where such is the practice, are sent to his pleader to put into legal form of a declaration. 2) Common law, Contracts. Orders given by a principal to his agent in relation to the business of his agency.
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.
Instrumenta
This word is properly applied to designate that kind of evidence, which consists of writings not under seal, as court rolls, accounts, and the like.
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Inspection
1) Common law. The examination of certain articles made by law subject to such examination, so that they may be declared fit for commerce. The decision of the inspectors is not final; the object' of the law is to protect the community from fraud, and to preserve the character of the merchandise abroad. 2) Practice. Examination.
Inspector
The name given to certain officers whose duties are to examine and inspect things over which they have jurisdiction.
Inspeximus
We have seen. A word sometimes used in letters-patent, reciting a grant, inspeximus such former grant, and so reciting it verbatim; it then grants such further privileges as are thought convenient.
Installation
Installation or instalment. The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill.
Instalment
1) Instalment or installation. The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill. 2) Contracts. A part of a debt due by contract, and agreed to be paid at a time different from that fixed for the, payment of the other part.
Instance
Instance court
English law. The English court of admiralty is divided into two distinct tribunals; the one having, generally, all the jurisdiction of the admiralty, except in prize cases, is called the instance court; the other, acting under a special commission, distinct from the usual commission given to judges of the admiralty, to enable the judge in time of war to assume the jurisdiction of prizes, and called Prize court.
Instant
An indivisible space of time.
Instanter
Immediately; presently. This term, it is said, means that the act to which it applies, shall be done within twenty-four hours but a doubt has been suggested by whom is the account of the hours to be kept, and whether the term instanter as applied to the subject-matter may not be more properly taken to mean "before, the rising of the court," when the act is to be done in court; or, "before the shutting of the office the same night," when the act is to be done there.
Instar
Likeness; resemblance; equivalent as, instar dentium, like teeth; instar omnium, equivalent to all.
Instigation
The act by which one incites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to coramence a suit or to prosecute a criminal.
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