Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

641

INTESTATO

INTRINSECUM SERVITIUM

condition produced by drinking intoxicating spirituous liquor, and is equivalent to "drunk." No additional word is needed to convey this idea. It is sometimes said that a person is intoxicated with opium, or with ether, or with laughing-gas; but this is an unusual or forced use of the word. A com plaint, under a statute authorizing proceed ings against persons found intoxicated, which avers that defendant was found intoxicated, is in this respect sufficient, and need not al lege upon what he became so. 47 Vt. 294. INTOXICATING LIQUORS. Those the use of which is ordinarily or commonly attended with entire or partial intoxication. 6 Park. Crim. R. 355. The terms "intoxicating liquor" and "spirituous liquor " are not syn onymous. All spirituous liquor is intoxicating, but all intoxicating liquor is not spirituous. Fermented liquor, though intoxicat ing, is not spirituous, because not distilled. 2 Gray, 501; 4 Gray, 18. INTRA. Lat. In; near; within. u In fra" or "inter" has taken the place of "in tra" in many of the more modern Latin phrases. INTRA ANNI SPATIUM. Within the space of a year. Cod. 5, 9, 2. Intra annale tempus. Id. 6, 30, 19. INTRA FIDEM. Within belief; credi ble. Calvin. INTRA LUCTUS TEMPUS. Within the time of mourning. Cod. 9, 1, auth. INTRA MCENIA. Within the walls (of a house.) A term applied to domestic or menial servants. 1 Bl. Comm. 425. INTRA PARIETES. Between walls; among friends; out of court; without litiga tion. Calvin. INTRA PR-S1SIDIA. Within the de fenses. See INFRA PR^SIDIA. INTRA QUATUOR MARIA. Within the four seas. Shep. Touch. 378. INTRA VIRES. An act to said to be intra vires ("within the power") of a person or corpoiation when it is within the scope of his or its powers or authority. It is the op posite of ultra vires, (g. v.) INTRARE MARISCUM. To drain a marsh or low ground, and convert it into herbage or pasture. INTRINSECUM SERVITIUM. Com. mon and ordinary duties with the lord's court.

TNTESTATO. In the civil law. tate; without a will. Calvin.

Intes

INTESTATUS. In the civil and old English law. An intestate; one who dies without a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. Intestatus decedit, qui aut omnino testamentuzn non fecit; aut non jure fecit; aut id quod fecerat ruptum irri tumve faotum est; aut nemo ex eo hseres exstitit. A person dies intestate who either bas made no testament at all or has made one not legally valid; or if the testament he has made be revoked, or made useless; or if no one becomes heir under it. Inst. 3, 1, pr. INTIMATION. In the civil law. A notification to a party that some step in a le gal proceeding is asked or will be taken. Particularly, a notice given by the party tak ing an appeal, to the other party, that the court above will hear the appeal. ^ In Scotch law. A formal written no tice, drawn by a notary, to be served on a party against whom a stranger has acquired a right or claim; e. g., the assignee of a debt must serve such a notice on the debtor, oth erwise a payment to the original ci editor will be good. INTIMIDATION. In English law. Ev ery person commits a misdemeanor, punish able with afineor imprisonment, who wrong fully uses violence to or intimidates any other person, or his wife or children, with a view to compel him to abstain from doing, or to do, any act which he lias a legal right to do, or abstain from doing. (St. 38 & 39 Viet. c. 86, § 7.) This enactment is chiefly directed against outrages by trades-unions. Sweet. There are simiJar statutes in many of the United States. INTIMIDATION OP VOTERS. This, by statute in several of the states, is made a criminal offense. Under an early Pennsyl vania act, it was held that, to constitute the offense of intimidation of voters, there must be a preconceived intention for the purpose of intimidating the officers or interrupting the election. 3 Yeates, 429. INTITLE. 6 Mod. 304. An old form of "entitle." INTOL AND UTTOL. In old records. Toll or custom paid for things imported and exported, or bought in and sold out. Gowell. INTOXICATE. Generally relates to the use of strong drink. "Intoxicated," used without words of qualification, signifies a AM. DICT. LAW—41

Archive CD Books USA