Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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INTER VIVOS

INTENTIO

Intentio cseca mala. A blind or obscure meaning is bad or ineffectual. 2 Bulst. 179. Said of a testator's intention. Intentio inservire debet legibus, non leges intentioni. The intention [of a par ty] ought to be subservient to for in accord ance with] the laws, not the laws to the inten tion. Go. Litt. 314a, 3146. Intentio mea imponit nomen operi meo. Hob. 123. My intent gives a name to my act. INTENTION. Meaning; will; purpose; design. "The intention of the testator, to be collected from the whole will, is to gov ern, provided it be not unlawful or inconsist ent with the rules of law." 4 Kent, Comm. 534. "Intention,"when used with reference to the construction of wills and other documents, means the sense and meaning of it, as gathered from the words used therein. Parol evidence is not ordi narily admissible to explain this. When used with reference to civil and criminal responsibility, a person who contemplates any result, as not un likely to follow from a deliberate act of his own, may be said to intend that result, whether he desire it or not. Thus, if a man should, for a wager, discharge a gun among a multitude of peo ple, and any should be killed, he would be deemed guilty of intending the death of such person; for every man is presumed to intend the natural con sequence of his own actions. Intention is often confounded with motive, as when we speak of a man's "good intentions." Mozley & Whitley. INTENTIONE. A writ that lay against him who entered into lands after the death of a tenant in dower, or for life, etc., and held out to him in reversion or remainder. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 203. INTER. Lat. Among; between. INTER ALIA. Among other things. A term anciently used in pleading, especially in reciting statutes, where the whole statute was not set forth at length. Inter alia enactatum fuit, among other things it was enacted. See Plowd. 65. Inter alias causas acquisitionis, mag na, Celebris, et famosa est causa dona tionis. Among other methods of acquiring property, a great, much-used, and celebrated method is that of gift. Bract, fol. 11. INTER ALIOS. Between other per sons; between those who are strangers to a matter in question. INTER APICES JURIS. Among the •ubtleties of the law. See APEX JURIS.

INTER BRACHIA. Between herarms. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 35, §§ 1, 2. INTER OffiTEROS. Among others; in a general clause; not by name, (nomina Urn.) A term applied in the civil law to clauses of disinheritance in a will. Inst. 2* 13, 1; Id. 2, 13, 3. INTER CANEM ET LUPUM. (Lat. Between the dog and the wolf.) The twi light; because then the dog seeks his rest, and the wolf his prey. 3 Inst. 63. I N T E R CONJUGES. Between hus band and wife. INTER CONJUNCTAS PERSONAS. Between conjunct persons. By the act 1621, c. 18, all conveyances or alienations between conjunct persons, unless granted for oner ous causes, are declared, as in a question with creditors, to be null and of no avail. Conjunct persons are those standing in a certain degree of relationship to each other; such, for example, as brothers, sisters, sons, uncles, etc. These were formerly excluded as witnesses, on account of their relation ship; but this, as a ground ot exclusion, has been abolished. Tray. Lat. Max. INTER PARTES. Between parties. Instruments in which two persons unite, each making conveyance to, or engagement with, the other, are called "papers inter paries. n INTER QUATUOR PARIETES. Be tween four walls. Fleta, lib. 6, c. 55, § 4. INTER REGALIA. In English law. Among the things belonging to the sover eign. Among these are rights of salmon fishing, mines of gold and silver, forests, for feitures, casualties of superiority, etc., which are called "regalia minora," and may be conveyed to a subject. The regalia majora include the several branches of the royal pre rogative, which are inseparable from the per son of the sovereign. Tiay. Lat. Max. INTER RTTSTICOS. Among the illit erate or unlearned. I N T E R SE, INTER SESE. Among themselves. Story, Partn. § 405. INTER VIRUM ET UXOREM. Be tween husband and wife. INTER VIVOS. Between the living; from one living person to another. Where property passes by conveyance, the transac tion is said to be inter vivos, to distinguish it from a case of succession or devise. So

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