Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

IPSO FACTO

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INVENTORY

INVITO DEBITORE. Against the wffl of the debtor. INVITO DOMINO. The owner being unwilling; against the will of the owner; without the owner's consent. In order to constitute larceny, the property must be tak en invito domino. INVOICE. In commercial law. An ao» count of goods or merchandise sent by mer chants to their correspondents at home or abroad, in which the marks of each package, with other particulars, are set forth. Marsh. Ins. 408; Dane, Abr. Index. A list or account of goods or merchandise sent or shipped by a merchant to his corre spondent, factor, or consignee, containing the particular marks of each description of goods, the value, charges, and other particulars. Jac. Sea Laws, 302. A writing made on behalf of an importer, specifying the merchandise imported, and its true cost or value. And. Rev. Law, § 294. INVOICE BOOK. A book in which in voices are copied. INVOICE PRICE of goods means the prime cost. 7 Johns. 343. INVOLUNTARY. An involuntary act is that which is performed with constraint (q. v.) or with repugnance, or without the will to do it. An action is involuntary, then, which is performed under duress. Wolff. Inst. Nat. § 5. IN VOLUN TARY MANSLAUGH TER. The unintentional killing of a person by one engaged in an unlawful, but not fe lonious, act. 4 Steph. Comm. 52. IOTA. The minutest quantity possible. Iota is the smallest Greek letter. The word "jot" is derived therefrom. Ipsae leges cupiunt ut jure regantur. Co. Litt. 174. The laws themselves require that they should be governed by right. IFSE. Lat. He himself; the same; the very person. IFSE DIXIT. He himself said it; a bare assertion resting on the authority of an in dividual. IPSISSIMIS VERBIS. In the identical words; opposed to "substantially." 7How. 719; 5 Ohio St. 346. IPSO FACTO. By the fact itself; by the mere fact. By the mere effect of an act or a fact.

or process; one who invents a patentable con trivance. INVENTORY. A detailed list of articles of property; a list or schedule of property, containing a designation or description of each specific article; an itemized list of the various articles constituting a collection, estate, stock in trade, etc., with their estimated or actual values. In law, the term is particularly ap plied to such a list made by an executor, ad ministrator, or assignee in bankruptcy. INVENTUS. Lat. Found. Thesaurus inventus, treasure-trove. Non est inventus, [he] is not found. INVERITARE. To make proof of a thing. Jacob. INVEST. To loan money upon securi ties of a more or less permanent nature, or to place it in business ventures or real estate, or otherwise lay it out, so that it may produce a revenue or income. To clothe one with the possession of a fief or benefice. See INVESTITURE. INVESTITIVE FACT. The fact by means of which aright comes into existence; e.g., a, grant of a monopoly, the death of one's ancestor. Holl. Jur. 132. INVESTITURE. A ceremony which accompanied the grant of lands in the feudal ages, and consisted in the open and notorious delivery of possession in the presence of the other vassals, which perpetuated among them the cera of their new acquisition at the time when the art of writing was very little known; and thus the evidence of the property was reposed in the memory of the neighborhood, who, in case of disputed title, were after wards called upon to decide upon it. Brown. In ecclesiastical law. Investiture is one of the formalities by which the election of a bishop is confirmed by the archbishop. See Phillim. Ecc. Law, 42, et seq. INVESTMENT. Money invested. INVIOLABILITY. The attribute of being secured against violation. The persons of ambassadors are inviolable. INVITO. Lat. Being unwilling. Against or without the assent or consent. Invito beneficium non datur. A ben efit is not conferred on one who is unwilling to receive it; that is to say, no one can be compelled to accept a benefit. Dig. 50, 17, 69; Broom, Max. 699, note.

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