KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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INFECTION

INFIDELITAB

or more remotely through inhalation, ab sorption of food or liquid tainted with ex cremental matter, contact with contaminated clothing or bedding, or other agencies. A distinction is sometimes made between "in fection" and "contagion," by restricting the lat ter term to the communication of disease by direct contact See Grayson v. Lynch, 163 U. S. 468, 16 Sup. Gt. 1064, 41 L. Ed. 230; Wirth v. State, 63 Wis. 51, 22 N. W. 860; Stryker v. Crane, 33 Neb. 690, 50 N. W. 1133. But "infection" is the wider term and in proper use includes "contagion," and is frequently extended so as to include the local inaugura tion of disease from other than human sources, as, from miasmas, poisonous plants, etc. In another, and perhaps more accurate sense, con tagion is the entrance or lodgment of patho genic germs in the system as a result of direct contact; infection is their fixation in the sys tem or the inauguration of disease as a conse quence. In this meaning, infection does not always result from contagion, and on the other hand it may result from the introduction of disease germs into the system otherwise than by contagion. —Auto-infection. The communication of disease from one part of the body to another by mechanical transmission of virus from a diseased to a healthy part.—Infectious dis ease. One capable of being transmitted or communicated by means of infection. INFEFT. In Scotch law. To give seisin or possession of lands; to invest or enfeoff. 1 Karnes, Eq. 215. INFEFTMENT. In old Scotch law. Investiture or infeudation, including both charter and seisin. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 2, p. 110. In later law. Saisine, or the instrument of possession. Bell. INFENSARE CURIAM. Lat. An ex pression applied to a court when it suggest ed to an advocate something which he had omitted through mistake or ignorance. Spel man. INFEOFFMENT. The act or Instru ment of feoffment. In Scotland it is synony mous with "saistne," meaning the instru ment of possession. Formerly it was synon ymous with "investiture." ' Bell. INFERENCE. In the law of evidence. A truth or proposition drawn from another which is supposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to be established is de duced as a logical consequence from other facts, or a state of facts, already proved or admitted. Gates v. Hughes, 44 Wis. 336; Whitehouse v. Bolster, 95 Me. 458, 50 Atl. 240; Joske v. Irvine, 91 Tex. 574, 44 S. W. 1059. An inference Is a deduction which the rea son of the jury makes from the facts proved, without an express direction of law to that effect. Code Civil Proc. Cal. § 1958. INFERENTIAL. In the law of evi dence. Operating in the way of inference;

argumentative. Presumptive evidence is sometimes termed "inferential." Com. T. Harman, 4 Pa. 272. —Inferential facts. See FACT. INFERIOR. One who, in relation to an other, has less power and is below him; one who is bound to obey another. He who makes the law is the superior; he who is bound to obey it, the inferior. 1 Bouv. Inst no. 8. INFERIOR COURT. This term may de note any court subordinate to the chief ap pellate tribunal in the particular judicial sys tem; hut it is commonly used as the designa tion of a court of special, limited, or statuto ry jurisdiction, whose record must show the existence and attaching of jurisdiction in any given case, in order to give presumptive va lidity to its judgment. See Ex parte Cuddy, 131 U. S. 280, 9 Sup. Ct. 703, 33 L. Ed. 154; Kempe v. Kennedy, 5 Cranch, 185, 3 L. Ed. 70; Grignon v. Astor, 2 How. 341, 11 L. E