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Incapable of being avoided; fortuitous; transcending the power of human care, foresight, or exertion to avoid or prevent, and therefore suspending legal relations so far as to excuse from the performance of contract obligations, or from liability for consequent loss. Inevitable accident. An inevitable accident is one produced by an irresistible physical cause; an accident which … [Read more...] about INEVITABLE

Latin: In the civil law. Obliteration, by drawing the pen or stylus over the writing. Dig. 28, 4; Calvin. … [Read more...] about INDUCTIO

A term used in the civil law, nearly synonymous with fortuitous. event. In the common law commonly called the ad of God. … [Read more...] about INEVITABLE ACCIDENT

In ecclesiastical law. Induction is the ceremony by which an incumbent who has been instituted to a benefice is vested with full possession of all the profits belonging to the church, so that he becomes seised of the temporalities of the church, and is then complete incumbent. It is performed by virtue of a mandate of induction directed by the bishop to the archdeacon, who … [Read more...] about INDUCTION

A guard; a watchman. Domesday. … [Read more...] about INEWARDUS