KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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INDIVISIBLE

INDICTMENT

reputation. Cheatham v. Cheatham, 10 Mo. 298; Butler v. Butler, 1 Pars. Eq. Cas. (Pa.) 329; Kurtz v. Kurtz, 38 Ark. 123. But com pare Miller v. Miller, 78 N. C. 105. INDIRECT. A term almost always used in law in opposition to "direct," though not the only antithesis of the latter word, as the terms "collateral" and "cross" are sometimes used in contrast with "direct." As to indirect "Confession," "Contempt," "Evidence," and "Tax," see those titles. INDISPENSABLE. That which cannot be spared, omitted, or dispensed with. —Indispensable evidence. See EVIDENCE.— Indispensable parties. In a suit in equity, those who not only have an interest in the sub ject-matter of the controversy, but an interest of such a nature that a final decree cannot be made without either affecting their interests or leaving the controversy in such a condition that its final determination may be wholly incon sistent with equity and good conscience. Shields v. Barrow, 17 How. 139, 15 L. Ed. 158; Ken dig v. Dean, 97 U. S. 425, 24 L. Ed. 1061; Mal low v. Hinde, 12 Wheat. 193, 6 L. Ed. 599. INDISTANTER. Forthwith; without dela: INDITEE. L. Fr. In old English law. A person indicted. Mirr. c. 1, § 3; 9 Coke, pref. INDIVIDUAL. As a noun, this term de notes a single person as distinguished from a group or class, and also, very commonly, a private or natural person as distinguished from a partnership, corporation, or associa tion ; but it is said that this restrictive signi fication is not necessarily inherent in the word, and that it may, in proper cases, in clude artificial persons. See Bank of U. S. v. State, 12 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 460; State v. Bell Telephone Co., 36 Ohio St. 310, 38 Am. Rep. 583; Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Canal Com'rs, 21 Pa. 20. As an adjective, "individ ual" means pertaining or belonging to, or characteristic of, one single person, either in opposition to a firm, association, or corpora tion, or considered in his relation thereto. — Individual assets. In the law of partner ship, property belonging to a member of a part nership as his separate and private fortune, apart from the assets or property belonging to the firm as such or the partner's interest there in.— Individual debts. Such as are due from a member of a partnership in his private or personal capacity, as distinguished from those due from the firm or partnership. Goddard v. Hapgood, 25 Vt. 360, 60 Am. Dec. 272.— In dividual system of location. A term for merly used in Pennsylvania to designate the location of public lands by surveys, in which the land called for by each warrant was sepa rately surveyed. Ferguson v. Bloom, 144 Pa. 549, 23 Atl. 49. INDIVIDUUM. Lat In the civil law. That cannot be divided. Calvin. INDIVISIBLE. Not susceptible of di vision or apportionment; inseparable; en-

tor, he brings his charge in what is termed the "form of criminal letters." —Joint indictment. When several offenders are joined in the same indictment, such an in dictment is called a "joint indictment;' ? as when principals in the first and second degree, and accessaries before and after the fact, are all joined in the same indictment. 2 Hale, P. C. 173; Brown. Indictment de felony est contra pacem domini regis, coronam et dignitatem roam, in genere et non inindividno; quia in Anglia non est interregnum. Jenk. Cent. 205. Indictment for felony is against the peace of our lord the king, his crown and dignity in general, and not against his indi vidual person; because in England there is no interregnum. INDICTOR. He who causes another to be indicted. The latter is sometimes called the "indictee." INDIFFERENT. Impartial; unbiased; disinterested. People v. Vermilyea, 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 122; Fox v. Hills, 1 Conn. 307. INDIGENA. In old English law. A sub ject born; one born within the realm, or naturalized by act of parliament. Co. Litt 8a. The opposite of "alienigena," (q. v.) INDIGENT. In a general sense an "in digent" person is one who is needy and poor, or one who has not sufficient property to fur nish him a living nor any one able to support him and to whom he is entitled to look for support. See Storrs Agricultural School v. Whitney, 54 Conn. 342, 8 Atl. 141; Juneau County v. Wood County, 109 Wis. 330, 85 N. W. 387; City of Lynchburg v. Slaughter, 75 Va. 62. The laws of some of the states dis tinguish between "paupers" and "indigent persons," the latter being persons who have no property or source of income sufficient for their support aside from their own labor, though self-supporting when able to work and in employment. See In re Hybart, 119 N. C. 359, 25 S. E. 963; People v. Schoharie County, 121 N. Y. 345, 24 N. E. 830; Rev. St Mo. 1899, § 4894 (Am. St 1906, p. 2616). In the law of divorce, a species of cruelty addressed to the mind, sen sibilities, self-respect, or personal honor of the subject, rather than to the body, and de fined as "unmerited contemptuous conduct towards another; any action towards an other which manifests contempt for him; contumely, incivility, or injury accompanied with insult." Coble v. Coble, 55 N. C. 395; Erwin v. Erwin, 57 N. C. 84; Hooper v. Hooper, 19 Mo. 357; Goodman v. Goodman, 80 Mo. App. 281; 1 Bish. Mar. & Div. § 826. But the phrase "indignities to the person," as used in statutes, has reference to bodily indignities, as distinguished from such as may be offered to the mind, sensibilities, or INDIGNITY.