Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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INADEQUATE PRICE

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hereunto set their hands," etc. A transla tion of the Latin phrase "in cujus rei UstU monium. " INADEQUATE PRICE. A term ap plied to indicate the want of a sufficient con sideration for a thing sold, or such a price as would ordinarily be entirely incommensurate with its intrinsic value. INADMISSIBLE. That which, under the established rules of law, cannot be ad mitted or received; e. g., parol evidence to contradict a written contract. IN51DIFICATIO. Inthecivillaw. Building on another's land with one's own materials, or on one's own land with anoth er's materials. INALIENABLE. Not subject to aliena tion; the characteristic of those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred from one person to another, such as rivers and public highways, and certain personal rights; e. ff., liberty. INAUGURATION. The act of install ing or inducting into office with formal cere monies, as the coronation of a sovereign, the inauguration of a president or governor, or the consecration of a prelate. INBLAURA. In old records. Profit or product of ground. Cowell. INBORH. In Saxon law. A security, pledge, or hypotheca, consisting of the chat tels of a person unable to obtain a personal M borg," or surety. INBOUND COMMON. An uninclosed common, marked out, however, by bounda ries. INCAPACITY. Want of capacity; want of power or ability to take or dispose; want of legal ability to act. INCASTELLARE. To make a building serve as a castle. Jacob. INCAUSTUM, or ENCAUSTUM. Ink. Fleta, L 2, c. 27, § 5. Incaute factum pro non facto habe tur. A thing done unwarily (or unadvised ly) will be taken as not done. Dig. 28,4,1. INCENDIARY. A house-burner; one guilty of arson; one who maliciously and willfully sets another person's building on fire.

Incendlum sere alieno non exuit deb itorem. Cod. 4, 2, 11. A fire does not release a debtor from his debt. INCEPTION. Commencement; open ing; initiation. The beginning of the opera tion of a contract or will. Incerta pro nullis habentur. Uncer tain things are held for nothing. Dav. Ir. K. B. 33. Incerta quantitas vitiat aotum. 1 Rolle R. 465. An uncertain quantity vitiates the act. INCEST. The crime of sexual inter course or cohabitation between a man and woman who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. INCESTUOUS ADULTERY. The el ements of this offense are that defendant, be ing married to one person, has had sexual intercourse with another related to the de fendant within the prohibited degrees. 11 Ga. 53. INCESTUOUS BASTARDY. Incest uous bastards are those who are produced by the illegal connection of two persons who are relations within the degrees prohibited by law. Civil Code La. art. 183. INCH. A measure of length, containing one-twelfth part of a foot; originally sup posed equal to three barleycorns. INCH OF CANDLE. A mode of sale at one time in use among merchants. A no tice is first given upon the exchange, or oth er public place, as to the time of sale. The goods to be sold are divided into lots, printed papers of which, and the conditions of sale, are published. When the sale takes place, a small piece of candle, about an inch long, is kept burning, and the last bidder, when the candle goes out, is entitled to the lot or par cel for which he bids. Wharton. INCHARTARE. To give, or grant, and assure anything by a written instrument. INCHOATE. Imperfect; unfinished} begun, but not completed; as a contract not executed by all the parties. INCHOATE DOWER. A wife's inter est in the lands of her husband during his life, which may become a right of dower up on his death. INCIDENT. This word, used as a noun, denotes anything which inseparably belongs

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