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Cruel treatment, ridicule, scorn, the victim of abuse. In the law of divorce, a species of cruelty addressed to the mind, sensibilities, self-respect, or personal honor of the subject, rather than to the body, and defined as "unmerited contemptuous conduct towards another; any action towards' another which manifests contempt for him; contumely, incivility, or injury accompanied … [Read more...] about INDIGNITY

To write a name on the back of a paper, a check, document, bills of exchange and promissory notes are Indorsed by a party's writing his name on the back. "Indorse" is a technical term, having sufficient legal certainty without words of more parr ticular description. … [Read more...] about INDORSE

A term almost always used in law in opposition to "direct" though not the only antithesis of the latter word, as the terms "collateral" and "cross" are sometimes used in contrast with "direct". As to indirect "Confession," "Contempt," "Evidence," and "Tax," see those titles. … [Read more...] about INDIRECT

contracts. The person in whose favor an indorsement is made, 2. He is entitled to all the rights of the indorser, and, if the bill or note have been indorsed over to him before it became due, he may be entitled to greater rights than the payee and indorser would have had, had he retained it till it became due, as none of the parties can make a set-off, or inquire into the … [Read more...] about INDORSEE

A bequest of things which are not enumerated or ascertained as to numbers or quantities; as, a bequest by a testator of all his goods, all his stocks in the funds. … [Read more...] about INDEFINITE LEGACY