Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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INDUSTRIAL, ETC., SOCIETIES

INDORSEMENT

INDUCXZE. In international law. A truce; a suspension of hostilities; an agree ment during war to abstain for a time from warlike acts. In old maritime law. A period of twen ty days after the safe arrival of a vessel un der bottomry, to dispose of the cargo, and raise the money to pay the creditor, with in terest. In old English practice. Delay or in dulgence allowed a party to an action; fur ther time to appear in a cause. Bract, foL 3526; Fleta, lib. 4, c. 5, § 8. In Scotch practice. Time allowed for the performance of an act. Time to appear to a citation. Time to collect evidence or prepare a defense. INDUCLS1 LEGALES. In Scotch law. The days between the citation of the defend ant and the day of appearance; the days be tween the test day and day of return of the writ. INDUCTIO. In the civil law. Obliter ation, by drawing the pen or stylus over the writing. Dig. 28, 4; Calvin. INDUCTION. In ecclesiastical la*w. Induction is the ceremony by which an in cumbent who has been instituted to a benefice is vested with full possession of all the profits belonging to the church, so that he becomes seised of the temporalities of the church, and is then complete incumbent. It is performed by virtue of a mandate of induction directed by the bishop to the archdeacon, who either performs it in person, or directs his precept to one or more other clergymen to do it. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 477. INDULGENCE. In the Roman Catholic Church. A remission of the punishment due to sins, granted by the pope or church, and supposed to save the sinner from purga tory. Its abuse led to the Reformation in Germany. Wharton. Forbearance, (q. t>.) INDULTO. In ecclesiastical law. A dispensation granted by the pope to do or ob tain something contrary to the common law. In Spanish law. The condonation or re mission of the punishment imposed on a criminal for his offense. This power is ex clusively vested in the king. INDUMENT. Endowment, (q. «.) INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES. Societies formed in Eng land for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, in

INDORSEMENT. The act of a payee, drawee, accommodation indorser, or holder of a bill, note, check, or other negotiable in strument, in writing his name upon the back of the same, with or without further or qual ifying words, whereby the property in the same is assigned and transferred to another. That which is so written upon the back of a negotiable instrument. One who writes his name upon a negotia ble instrument, otherwise than as a maker or acceptor, and delivers it, with his name thereon, to another person, is called an "in dorser," and his act is called "indorsement." Civil Code Cal. 8 31 08; Civil Code Dak. § 1836. An indorsement in full is one in which mention is made of the name of the indorsee. Chit. Bills, 170. A blank indorsement is one which does not mention the name of the indorsee, and con sists, generally, simply of the name of the indorser written on the back of the instru ment. 1 Daniel, Neg. Inst. § 693. A conditional indorsement is one by which the indorser annexes some condition (other than the failure of piior parties to pay) to his liability. The condition may be either pre cedent or subsequent. 1 Daniel, Neg. Inst. §697. A restrictive indorsement is one which is so worded as to restrict the further negotia bility of the instrument. A qualified indorsement is one which re strains or limits or qualifies or enlarges the liability of the indorser, in any manner differ ent from what the law generally imports as his true liability, deducible from the nature of the instrument. Chit. Bills, (8th Ed.) 261; 7 Taunt. 160. In criminal law. An entry made upon the back of a writ or warrant. INDORSER. He who indorses; i. c, being the payee or holder, writes his name on the back of a bill of exchange, etc. INDUCEMENT. In contracts. The benefit or advantage which the promisor is to receive from a contract is the inducement for making it. In criminal evidence. Motive; that which leads or tempts to the commission of crime. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 283. In pleading. That portion of a declara tion or of any subsequent pleading in an ac tion which is brought forwaid by way of ex planatory introduction to the mam allega tions. Brown.

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