Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

INSINUATION

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INROLL

INSENSIBLE. In pleading. Unintel ligible; without sense or meaning, from the omission of material words, etc. Steph. PL 377. INSETENA. In old records. An in ditch; an interior ditch; one made within another, for greater security. Spelman. INSLDIATORES VIARUM. Lat. Highwaymen; persons who lie in wait in order to commit some felony or other mis demeanor. INSIGNIA. Ensigns or arms; distinctive marks; badges; indicia; characteristics. I N S I L I A R I U S . An evil counsellor. Cowell. INSILIUM. Evil advice or counsel. Cowell. INSIMUL. Lat. Together; jointly. Townsh. PL 44. INSIMUL COMPUTASSENT. They accounted together. The name of the count in assumpsit upon an account stated; it be ing averred that the parties had settled their accounts together, and defendant engaged to pay plaintiff the balance. INSIMUL TENUIT. One species of the writ of formedon brought against a stranger by a coparcener on the possession of the ancestor, etc. Jacob. INSINUACION. In Spanish law. The presentation of a public document to a com petent judge, in order to obtain his approba tion and sanction of the same, and thereby give it judicial authenticity. Escriche. INSINUARE. Lat. In the civil law. To put into; to deposit a writing in court, answering nearly to the modern expression "to file." 8i non mandatum actis insin uatum est, if the power or authority be not deposited among the records of the court. Inst. 4, 11, 3. To declare or acknowledge before a judicial officer; to give an act an official form. INSINUATIO. Lat. In old English law. Information or suggestion. Ex insin uatione, on the information. Beg. Jud. 25, 50. INSINUATION. In the civil law. The transcription of an act on the public registers, like our recording of deeds. It was not nec essary in any other alienation but that ap propriated to the purpose of donation. Inst. 2, 7, 2.

who have power to inquire into certain mat ters. INROLL. A form of "enroll," used in the old books. 8 Rep. Ch. 63, 73; 3 East, 410. INROLLMENT. See ENROLLMENT. INSANE. Unsound in mind; of unsound mind; deranged, disoidered, or diseased in mind. Violently deranged; mad. INSANITY. A manifestation of disease of the brain, characterized by a general or partial derangement of one or more faculties of the mind, and in which, while conscious ness is not abolished, mental freedom is per verted, weakened, or destroyed. Ham. Ner vous System, 332. The prolonged departure, without any adequate cause, from the states of feeling and modes of thinking usual to the individual in health. Bou vier. This is not, strictly speaking, a legal term, but it is commonly used to denote that state of mind which prevents a person from knowing right from wrong, and, therefore, from being responsible for acts which in a sane person would be criminal. Pope, Lun. 6, 19, 356. By insanity is not meant a total deprivation of reason, but only an inability, from defect of per ception, memory, and judgment, to do the act in question. So, by a lucid interval is not meant a perfect restoration to reason, but a restoration so far as to be able, beyond doubt, to comprehend and to do the act with such reason, memory, and judg ment as to make it a legal act. 2 DeL Ch. 263. Insanus est qui, abjecta ratione, omnia cum impetu et furore facit. He is insane who, reason being thrown away, does every thing with violence and rage. 4 Coke, 128. INSCRIBERE. Lat. In the civil law. To subscribe an accusation. To bind one's self, in case of failure to prove an accusation, to suffer the same punishment which the ac cused would have suffered had he been proved guilty. Calvin. INSCRIPTIO. Lat. In the civil law. A written accusation in which the accuser un dertakes to suffer the punishment appropriate to the offense charged, if the accused is able to clear himself of the accusation. Calvin.; Cod. 9, 1, 10; Id. 9, 2, 16, 17. INSCRIPTION. In evidence. Any thing written or engraved upon a metallic or other solid substance, intended for great du rability; as upon a tombstone, pillar, tablet, medal, ring, etc. INSCRIPTIONES. The name given by the old English law to any written instru ment by which anything was granted. Blounk

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