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Invoice

Commerce. An account of goods or merchandise sent by merchants to their correspondents at home or abroad, in which the marks of each package, with other particulars, are set forth. An invoice ought to contain a detailed statement, which should indicate the nature, quantity, quality, and price of the things sold, deposited

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Commerce
Latin commercium. In its simplest signification, an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labor, transportation, itelligence, care and various mediums of exchange, become commodities and enter into commerce. Gibbens v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 229 (1824), Marshall, Chief Justice. The interchange or mutual change of goods, productions, or property of any kind, between nations or individuals.

Account
Practice. 1) A statement of the receipts and payments of an executor, administrator, or other trustee, of the estate confided to him. 2) An account is also the statement of two merchants or others who have dealt together, showing the debits and credits between them.

Merchandise
By this term is understood all those things which merchants sell either wholesale or retail, as dry goods, hardware, groceries, drugs, &c. It is usually applied to personal chattels only, and to those which are not required for food or immediate support, but such as remain after having been used or which are used only by a slow consumption.

Home
Where a person takes up his abode, without any present intention to remove therefrom permanently.

Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.

Particulars
Practice. The items of which the accounts of one of the parties is composed, and which are frequently furnished to the opposite party in a bill of particulars.

Invoice
Commerce. An account of goods or merchandise sent by merchants to their correspondents at home or abroad, in which the marks of each package, with other particulars, are set forth. An invoice ought to contain a detailed statement, which should indicate the nature, quantity, quality, and price of the things sold, deposited

Statement
Pleading and in practice. In the courts of Pennsylvania, by the act to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in courts of justice, is enacted, "that in all cases where a suit may be brought in any court of record for the recovery of any debt founded on a verbal promise, book account, note, bond, penal or single bill, or all or any of them, and which from the amount thereof may not be cognizable before a justice of the peace, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff, either by himself, his agent or attorney, to file in the office of the pro-thonotary a statement of his, her or their demand, on or before the third day of the term to which the process issued is returnable, particularly specifying the date of the promise, book account, note, bond, penal or single bill or all or any of them, on which the demand is founded, and the whole amount which he, she, or they believe is justly due to him, her or them from the defendant."

Quantity
Pleading. That which is susceptible of measure.

Quality
1) Persons. The state or condition of a person. 2) pleading. That which distinguishes one thing from another of the same kind.

Price
contracts. The consideration in money given for the purchase of a thing.

Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.



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Invoice book
Commerce, accounts. One in which invoices are copied.

Involuntary
An involuntary act is that which is performed with constraint or with repugnance, or without the will to do it. An action is involuntary then, which is performed under duress.

Involuntary bankruptcy
A proceeding initiated by creditors requesting the bankruptcy court to place a debtor in liquidation.



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Invest
To invest. 1) Contracts. To lay out money in such a manner that it may bring a revenue; as, to invest money in houses or stocks; to give possession. 2) This word, which occurs frequently in the canon law, comes from the Latin word investire, which signifies to clothe or adorn and is used, in that system of jurisprudence, synonymously with enfeoff.

Investigation
A structured gathering of Documentary Evidence and Testimony to solve a reported Fraud.

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.

Inviolability
That which is not to be violated. The persons of ambassadors are inviolable.

Invito domino
Criminal law. Without the consent of the owner.

Invoice

Invoice book
Commerce, accounts. One in which invoices are copied.

Involuntary
An involuntary act is that which is performed with constraint or with repugnance, or without the will to do it. An action is involuntary then, which is performed under duress.

Involuntary bankruptcy
A proceeding initiated by creditors requesting the bankruptcy court to place a debtor in liquidation.

Iou
Greek hypothesis, a placing under; supposition. "I owe you". A popular designation of a due-bill or memorandum of debt. Consist's of those letters, a sum of money, and the debtor's signature. As it contains no direct promise to pay, it is not a promissory note, but a mere acknowledgment of indebtedness.

Ipse
He, himself; the very man.

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