Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

INSINUATION OF WILL

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of public records and documents; or of the books and papers of his opponent in an ac tion, for the purpose of better preparing his own case for trial. INSPECTION LAWS. Laws authoriz ing and directing the inspection and exami nation of various kinds of merchandise intend ed for sale, especially food, with a view to ascertaining itsfitnessfor use, and excluding unwholesome or unmarketable goods from sale, and directing the appointment of of ficial inspectors for that purpose. See Const. U. S. art. 1, § 10, cl. 2; Story, Const. § 1017, et seq. INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS. This phrase refers to the right of a party, in a civil action, to inspect and make copies of documents which are essential or material to the maintenance of his cause, and which are either in the custody of an officer of the law or in the possession of the adverse party. INSPECTION, TRIAL BY. A mode of trial formerly in use in England, by which the judges of a court decided a point in dis pute, upon the testimony of their own senses, without the intervention of a jury. This took place in cases where the fact upon which issue was taken must, from its nature, be evi dent to the court from ocular demonstration, or other irrefragable proof; and was adopted for the greater expedition of a cause. 3 Bl. Coinm. 331. INSPECTORS. Officers whose duty it is to examine the quality of certain articles of merchandise, food, weights and measures, etc. INSPECTORSHIP, DEED OF. In English law. An instrument entered into between an insolvent debtor and his credit ors, appointing one or more persons to in spect and oversee the winding up of such in solvent's affairs on behalf of the creditors. INSPEXIMUS. Lat. In old English law. We have inspected. An exemplifica tion of letters patent, so called from the em phatic word of the old forms. 5 Coke, 536. INSTALLATION. The ceremony of in ducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as the placing a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary into his stall or seat, or a knight into his order. Wharton. INSTALLMENTS. Different portions of the same debt payable at different succes sive periods as agreed. Brown.

INSINUATION OP A WILL. In the eivil law. The first production of a will, or the leaving it with the registrar, in order to its probate. Cowell; Blount. INSOLVENCY. The condition of a per son who is Insolvent; inability to pay one's debts; lack of means to pay one's debts. Such a relative condition of a man's assets and liabilities that the former, if all made immediately available, would not be sufficient to discharge the latter. Or the condition of a person who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business. See 2 Kent, Comra. 389; 4 Hill, 652; 15 N. Y. 141, 200; 3 Gray, 600; 2 Bell, Comm. 162. As to the distinction between bankruptcy and insolvency, see BANKRUPTCY. INSOLVENCY FUND. In English law. A fund, consisting of moneys and se curities, which, at the time of the passing of the bankruptcy act, 1861, stood, in the Bank of England, to the credit of the commission ers of the insolvent debtors' court, and was, by the twenty-sixth section of that act, di rected to be carried by the bank to the account of the accountant in bankruptcy. Provision has now been made for its transfer to the commissioners for the reduction of the na tional debt. Bobs. Bankr. 20, 56. INSOLVENT. One who cannot or does not pay; one who 13 unable to pay his debts; one who is not solvent; one who has not means or property sufficient to pay his debts. A debtor is "insolvent," within the meaning of the bankrupt act, when he is unable to pay his debts and meet his engagements in the ordinary course of business, as persons in trade usually do. 3 Ben. 153; Id. 520; 1 Abb. (U. S.) 4-10; 1 Dill. 186. A trader is insolvent when he is not in a condi tion to meet his engagements or pay his debts in the usual and ordinary course of business. His solvency or insolvency does not depend upon the simpie question whether his assets at the date al leged will or will not satisfy all the demands against him, due and to become due. 33 Cal. 625. INSOLVENT LAW. A term applied to a law, usually of one of the states, regulating the settlement of insolvent estates, and ac cording a certain measure of relief to insolv ent debtors. INSPECTATOR. A prosecutor or adver sary. INSPECTION. The examination or testing of food, fluids, or other articles made Bubject by law to such examination, to as certain their fitness for use or commerce. Also the examination by a private person

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