KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

IRREPARABLE INJURY

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ISSUE

he is receiving relief, notwithstanding that he has not acquired a settlement there. 3 Steph. Comm. 60.

specified in a deed are, if committed, declared to be null and void. A resolutive clause dis solves and puts an end to the right of a pro prietor on his committing the acts so declar ed void. Lat In the civil law. To impose or set upon, as a fine. Calvin. To inflict, as a punishment To make or ordain, as a law. IRROGARE.

IRREPARABLE INJURY.

See INJURY.

IRREPLEVIABLE.

That cannot be re

plevied or delivered on sureties. also, "irreplevisable." Co. Litt. 145.

Spelled,

IRRESISTIBLE FORCE. A term ap plied to such an interposition of human agency as is, from its nature and power, ab solutely uncontrollable; as the inroads of a hostile army. Story, Bailm. § 25. IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSE. Used chief ly in criminal law, this term means an im pulse to commit an unlawful or criminal act which cannot be resisted or overcome by the patient because insanity or mental disease has destroyed the freedom of his will and his power of self-control and of choice as to his actions. See McCarty v. Com., 114 Ky. 620, 71 S. W. 658; State v. Knight, 95 Me. 467, 50 Atl. 276, 55 L. R. A. 373; Leache v. State, 22 Tex. App. 279, 3 S. W. 539, 58 Am. Rep. 638; State v. Peel, 23 Mont. 358, 59 Pac. 169, 75 Am. St. Rep. 529. And see IN SANITY. —Irrigation company. A private corpora tion, authorized and regulated by statute in sev eral states, having for its object to acquire ex clusive rights to the water of certain streams or other sources of supply, and to convey^ it by means of ditches or canals through a region where it can be beneficially used for agricul tural purposes, and either dividing the water among stockholders, or making contracts with consumers, or furnishing a supply to all who apply at fixed rates.—Irrigation district. A public and quasi-municipal corporation author ized by law in several states, comprising a de fined region or area of land which is suscep tible of one mode of irrigation from a common source and by the same system of works. These districts are created. by proceedings in the nature of an election under the supervision of a court, and are authorized to purchase or condemn the lands and waters necessary for the system of irrigation proposed and to con struct necessary canals and other works, and the water is apportioned ratably among the land-owners of the district. In Scotch law. The hap pening of a condition or event by which a charter, contract, or other deed, to which a clause irritant is annexed, becomes void. In Scotch law. Avoiding or making void; as an irritant clause. See IRRITANCY. 'In Scotch law. A provision by which certain prohibited acts BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)—42 IRREVOCABLE. Which cannot be re voked or recalled. IRRIGATION. The operation of water ing lands for agricultural purposes by arti ficial means. IRRITANCY. IRRITANT. IRRITANT CLAUSE.

IRROTULATIO.

L. Lat An enrolling;

a record.

IS QUI COGNOSCIT.

Lat. The cog

nizor in a fine. Is cui cognoscitur,

the cog

nizee.

ISH. In Scotch law. The period of the termination of a tack or lease. 1 Bligh, 522.

ISLAND. A piece of land surrounded by water. Webber v. Pere Marquette Boom Co., 62 Mich. 626, 30 N. W. 469; Goff v. Cougle, 118 Mich. 307, 76 N. W. 489, 42 L. R. A. 161. A law French term, meaning "thus," "so," giving its name to part of a plea in debt. In practice. Leading to or producing an Issue; relating to an issue or issues. See Colquitt v. Mercer, 44 Ga. 433. —Issuable plea. A plea to the merits; a traversable plea. A plea such that the adverse party can join issue upon it and go to trial. It is true a plea in abatement is a plea, and, if it be properly pleaded, issues may be found on it. In the ordinary meaning of the word "plea," and of the word "issuable," such pleas may be called "issuable pleas," but, when these two words are used together, "issuable plea," or "issuable defense," they have a technical meaning, to-wit, pleas to the merits. Colquitt v. Mercer, 44 Ga. 434—Issuable terms. In the former practice of the English courts, Hil ary term and Trinity term were called "issuable terms," because the issues to be tried at the as sizes were made up at those terms. 3 Bl. Comm. 353. But the distinction is supersed ed by the provisions of the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875. To send forth; to emit; to promulgate; as, an officer issues orders, pro cess issues from a court. To put into circu lation; as, the treasury issues notes. The act of issuing, sending forth, emitting or promulgating; the giving a thing its first inception; as the issue of an order or a writ. In pleading. The disputed point or quea tion to which the parties in an action have narrowed their several allegations, and upon which they are desirous of obtaining the de cision of the proper tribunal. When the plaintiff and defendant have arrived at some specific point or matter affirmed on the one side, and denied on the other, they are said to be at issue. The question so set apart Is ISSINT. ISSUABLE. ISSUE, v. ISSUE, n.