Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

INFRA TRIDUUM

OHERETRIX

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with respect to the first case. But the En glish law has left the matter entirely to the moral sense. INGRESS, EGRESS, AND RE GRESS. These words express the right of a lessee to enter, go upon, and return fromth* lands in question. INGRESSU. In English law. An an cient writ of entry, by which the plaintiff or complainant sought an entry into his lands. Abolished in 1833. INGRESSUS. In old English law. In gress; entry. The relief paid by an heir to the lord was sometimes so called. Cowell. INGROSSATOR. An engrosser. In grossator magni rotuli, engrosser of the great roll; afterwards called "clerk of the pipe." Spelman; Cowell. INGROSSING. The act of making a fair and perfect copy of any document from a rough draft of it, in order that it may be executed or put to its final purpose. INHABITANT. One who resides actu ally and permanently in a given place, and has his domicile there. "The words 'inhabitant,' 'citizen,' and 'resi dent,' as employed in different constitutions to de fine the qualifications of electors, mean substan tially the same thing; and one is an inhabitant, resident, or citizen at the place where he has his domicile or home." Cooley, Const. Lim. *800. But the terms "resident" and "inhabitant" have also been held not synonymous, the latter implying a more fixed and permanent abode than the former, and importing privileges and duties to which a mere resident would not be subject. 4011L 197. INHABITED HOUSE DUTY. A tax assessed in England on inhabited dwelling houses, according to their annual value, (St. 14 & 15 Viet. c. 36; 32 & 33 Viet. c. 14, § 11,) which is payable by the occupier, the landlord being deemed the occupier where the house is let to several persons, (St. 43 Geo. III. c. 55, Schedule B.) HOUST occu pied solely for business purposes are exempt from duty, although a care-taker may dwell therein, and houses partially occupied for business purposes are to that extent exempt. Sweet. INHERENT POWER. An authority possessed without its being derived from an other. A right, ability, or faculty of doing a thing, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. INHERETRIX. The old term for " heir ess." Co. Litt. 13a.

INFRA TBIDTJTTM. Within three days. Formal words in old appeals. Fleta, lib. 1, o. 81, 8 6; Id. c. 85, § 8. INFRACTION. A breach, violation, or infringement; as of a law, a contract, aright or duty. In French law, this term is used as a gen eral designation of all punishable actions. INFRINGEMENT. A breaking into; a trespass or encroachment upon; a viola tion of a law, regulation, contract, or right. Used especially of invasions of the rights se cured by patents* copyrights, and trade marks. INFUGARE. To put to flight. INFULA. A coif, or a cassock. Jacob. INFUSION. In medical jurisprudence. The process of steeping in liquor; an opera tion by which the medicinal qualities of a substance may be extracted by a liquor with out boiling. Also the product of this opera tion. "Infusion" and "decoction," though not identical, are ejusdem generis in law. 3 Camp. 74. See DECOCTION. INGE. Meadow, or pasture. Jacob. INGENIUM. (1) Artifice, trick, fraud; (2) an engine, machine, or device. Spelman. INGENUITAS. Liberty given to a serv ant by manumission. INGENUITAS REGNI. In old En glish law. The freemen, yeomanry, or com monalty of the kingdom. Cowell. Applied sometimes also to the barons. INGENUUS. In Roman law. A per son who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libertus, who, having been born a slave, was afterwards manumitted or made free. It is not the same as the English law term "generosus," which denoted a person not merely free, but of good family. There were no distinctions among ingenui; but among libertini there were (prior to Justin ian's abolition of the distinctions) three vari eties, namely: Those of the highest rank, called "Cives Romani;" those of the second rank, called "Latini Juniani;" and those of the lowest rank, called "Dediticii." Brown. INGRATITUDE. In Roman law, in gratitude was accounted a sufficient cause for revoking a gift or recalling the liberty of a freedman. Such is also the law of Fiance,

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