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A qualification of a man's legal status produced by his conviction of an infamous crime and the consequent loss of honor and credit, which, at common law, rendered him incompetent as a witness, and by statute in some jurisdictions entails other disabilities. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition crim. law, evidence. That state which is produced by the conviction of … [Read more...] about INFAMY

Lat. A qualified property in animals feres natural may be acquired per industriam, i.e., by a man's re claiming and making them tame by art, industry, and ,education; or by so confining them within his own immediate power that they cannot escape and use their natural liberty. 2 Steph. Comm. 5. … [Read more...] about INDUSTRIAM, PER

Minority; the state of a person who is under the age of legal majority, at common law, twenty-one years. According to the sense in which this term is used, it may denote the condition of the person merely with reference to his years, or the contractual disabilities which non-age entails, or his status with regard to other powers or relations. Natural infancy. A period of … [Read more...] about INFANCY

A favor granted. 2. It is a general rule that where a creditor gives .indulgence, by entering into a binding contract with a principal debtor, by which the surety is or may be damnified, such surety is discharged, because the creditor has put it out of his power to enforce immediate payment; when the surety would have a right to require him to do so. 6 … [Read more...] about INDUTLGENCE

In old English law. A privilege of lords of certain manors to judge any thief taken within their fee. … [Read more...] about INFANGENTHEF