Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

IMPROPER NAVIGATION

IMPOTENTIAM, ETC.

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stituted authorities, giving permission to print and publish a book. This allowance was formerly necessary, in England, before any book could lawfully be printed, and in some other countries is still required. IMPRIMERE. To press upon; to Im press or press; to imprint or print. IMPRIMERY. In some of the ancient English statutes this word is used to signify a printing-office, the art of printing, a print or impression. IMPRIMIS. Lat. In the first place; first of all. IMPRISON. To put in a prison; to put in a place of confinement. To confine a person, or restrain his liberty, in any way. IMPRISONMENT. The act of putting or confining a man in prison; the restraint of a man's personal liberty; coercion exer cised upon a person to prevent the free exer cise of his powers of locomotion. It is not a necessary part of the definition that the confinement should be in a place usually appropriated to that purpose; it may be in a locality used only for the specific oc casion; or it may take place without the actu al application of any physical agencies of re straint, (such as locks or bars,) but by verbal compulsion and the display of available force. See 9 N. H. 491. Any forcible detention of a man's person, or control over his movements, is imprisonment. 8 Har. (Del.) 416. IMPRISTI. Adherents; followers. Those who side with or take the part of another, either in his defense or otherwise. IMPROBATION. In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false and forged. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 4, p. 161. The verb "im prove" (q. v.) was used in the same sense. IMPROPER. Not suitable; unfit; not suited to the character, time, and place. 48 N. H. 199. Wrongful. 53 Law J. P. D. 65. IMPROPER FEUDS. These were de rivative feuds; as, for instance, those that were originally bartered and sold to the feud atory for a price, or were held upon base or less honorable services, or upon a rent in lieo of military service, or were themselves alien able, without mutual license, or descended indifferently to males or females. Wharton. IMPROPER NAVIGATION. Any thing improperly done with the ship or part

quired by the law excuses from the perform ance. IMPOTENTIAM, PROPERTY PROPTER. A qualified property, which may subsist in animals fertt naturce on ac count of their inability, as where hawks, herons, or other birds build in a person's trees, or conies, etc., make their nests or bur rows in a person's land, and have young there, such person has a qualified property in them till they can fly or run away, and then such property expires. 2 Steph. Gomm. (7th Ed.) 8. IMPOUND. To shut up stray animals or distrained goods in a pound. To take into the custody of the law or of a court. Thus, a court will sometimes im pound a suspicious document produced at a trial. IMPRESCRIPTIBILITY. The state or quality of being incapable of presciiption; not of such a character that a right to it can be gained by prescription. IMPRESCRIPTIBLE RIGHTS. Such rights as a person may use or not, at pleasure, since they cannot be lost to him by the claims of another founded on prescrip tion. IMPRESSION. A "case of the first im pression" is one without a precedent; one presenting a wholly new state of facts; one involving a question never before deter mined. IMPRESSMENT. A power possessed by the English crown of taking persons or property to aid in the defense of the country, with or without the consent of the persons concerned. It is usually exercised to obtain hands for the queen's ships in time of war, by taking seamen eng.iged in meichant ves sels, (1 Bl. Comm. 420; Maud & P. Shipp. 123;) but in former times impressment of merchant ships was also practiced. The ad miralty issues protections against impress ment in certain cases, either under statutes passed in favor of certain callings (e. g., per sons employed in the Greenland fisheries) or voluntarily. Sweet. IMPREST MONEY. Money paid on enlisting or impressing soldiers or sailors. IMPRETIABIIiIS. Lat. Beyond price; invaluable. IMPRIMATUR. Lat. Let it be printed. A license or allowance, granted by the con

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