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which would reasonably inflict a course ol great mental anguish upon an innocent party* Civil Code Cal. § 106. INTEND. To design, resolve, purpose. To apply a rule of law in the nature of pre sumption; to discern and follow the proba bilities of like cases. INTENDANT. One who has the charge, management, or direction of some office, de partment, or public business. INTENDED TO BE RECORDED. This phrase is frequently used in conveyances, when reciting some other conveyance which has not yet been recorded, but which forms a link in the chain of title. In Pennsylva nia, it has been construed to be a covenant, on the part of the grantor, to procure the deed to be recorded in a reasonable time. 2 Eawle, 14. INTENDENTE. In Spanish law. The immediate agent of the minister of finance, or the chief and principal director of the dif ferent branches of the revenue, appointed in the various departments in each of the prov inces into which the Spanish monarchy is di vided. Escriche. INTENDMENT OF LAW. The true meaning, the correct understanding or inten tion of the law; a presumption or inference made by the courts. Co. Litt. 78. INTENT. In criminal law and the law of evidence. Purpose; formulated design; a resolve to do or forbear a particular act; aim; determination. In its literal sense, the stretching of the mind or will towards a par ticular object. "Intent" expresses mental action at its most advanced point, or as it actually ac companies an outward, corporal act which has been determined on. Intent shows the presence of will in the act which consum mates a crime. It is the exercise of intelli gent will, the mind being fully aware of the nature and consequences of the act which is about to be done, and with such knowledge, and with full liberty of action, willing and electing to do it. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 284, and notes. INTENTIO. Lat. In the civH law. The formal complaint or claim of a plaintiff before the praetor. In old English law. A count or decla ration in a real action, (narratio.) Bract, lib. 4, tr. 2, c. 2; Fleta, lib. 4, c. 7; Du Cange.

INSURANCE POLICY. See POLICY. INSURE. To engage to indemnify a per son against pecuniary loss from specified perils. To act as an insurer. INSURED. The person who obtains in surance on his property, or upon whose life an insurance is effected. INSURER. The underwriter or insur ance company with whom a contract of in surance is made. The person who undertakes to indemnify another by a contract of insurance is called the "insurer," and the.person indemnified is called the "insured." Civil Code Cal. § 2538. INSURGENT. One who participates in an insurrection; one who opposes the execu tion of law by force of arms, or who rises in revolt against the constituted authorities. A distinction is often taken between " insurgent" and "rebel," in this: that the former term is not necessarily to be taken in a bad sense, inasmuch as an insurrection, though extralegal, may be just and timely in itself; as where it is undertaken for the overthrow of tyranny or the reform of gross abuses. According to Webster, an insurrection is an incipient or early stage of a rebellion. INSURRECTION. A rebellion, or ris ing of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government. See INSURGENT. Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the state, with intent to the denial thereof, when the same is manifested, or intended to be mani fested, by acts of violence. Code Ga. 1882, §4315. INTAKERS. In old English law. A kind of thieves inhabiting Redesdale, on the extreme northern border of England; so called because they took in or received such booties of cattle and other things as their ac complices, who were called "outparters," brought in to them from the borders of Scot land. Spelman; Coweil. INTAKES. Temporary inclosures made by customary tenants of a manor under a special custom authorizing them to inclose part of the waste until one or more crops have been raised on it. Elton, Common, 277. I N T E G E R . Whole; untouched. Res integra means a question which is new and undecided. 2 Kent, Com in. 177. INTEMPERANCE. Habitual intem perance is that degree of intemperance from the use of intoxicating drinks which dis qualifies the person a great portion of the time from properly attending to business, or

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