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In Roman law. A person who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libertus, who, having been born a slave, was afterwards manumitted or made free. It is not the same as the English law term "gvnerosus," which denoted a person not merely free, but of good family. There were no distinctions among ingenui; but among liberiini there were … [Read more...] about INGENUUS

Blood which has the purity (freedom from attainder) and legitimacy necessary to give its possessor the character of a lawful heir; that which is capable of being the medium for the transmission of an inheritance. … [Read more...] about INHERITABLE BLOOD

A prohibitive writ issued by a court of equity, at. the suit of a party complainant, directed to a party defendant in the action, or to a party made a defendant for that purpose, forbidding the latter to do some act, or to permit his servants or agents to do some act, which he is threatening or attempting to commit, or restraining him in the continuance thereof, such act being … [Read more...] about INJUNCTION

In Roman law, in gratitude was accounted a sufficient cause for revoking a gift or recalling the liberty of a freedman. Such is also the law of France, with respect to the flrst case. But the English law has left the matter entirely to the moral sense. … [Read more...] about INGRATITUDE

An estate in things real, descending to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. 201; In re Donahue's Estate, 36 Cal. 332; Dodge's Appeal, 106 Pa. 220, 51 Am. Rep. 519; Rountree v. Pursell, 11 Ind. App. 522, 39 N. El 747; Adams v. Akerlund, 16& 111. 632, 48 N. E. 454. Such an estate In lands or tenements or other things as may be inherited by the heir. Termes de la Ley. An estate or property … [Read more...] about INHERITANCE