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INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES

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Societies formed in England for carrying on any labor, trade, or handicraft, whether wholesale or retail, including the buying and selling of land and also (but subject to certain restrictions) the business of banking. … [Read more...]

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS

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Schools (established by voluntary contribution) in which Industrial training is provided, and in which children are lodged, clothed, and fed, as well as taught … [Read more...]

INFAMY

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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...]

INDUSTRIAM, PER

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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...]

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