A person who is hired to do a job that is not an employee. They are not paid a salary, usually retain a measure of control over how the work they perform. Tax laws and intellectual property laws (such as copyright) make distinctions between employees and independent contractors. … [Read more...] about INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
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INDICT
See INDICTMENT. … [Read more...] about INDICT
INDEFINITE PAYMENT
In Scotch law. Payment without specification. Indefinite payment is where a debtor, owing several debts to one creditor, makes a payment to the creditor, without specifying to which of the debts he means the payment to be applied. See Bell. Indennitum sequipollet universali. The undefined is equivalent to the whole 1 Vent 368. Indennitum supplet locum universalis. The undefined … [Read more...] about INDEFINITE PAYMENT
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL
An independent or special attorney or prosecutor appointed to investigate a high profile incident. … [Read more...] about INDEPENDENT COUNSEL
INDICTABLE
That which makes one subject to being criminally indicted, e.g. an indictable offense. Proper or necessary to be prosecuted by process of Indictment. … [Read more...] about INDICTABLE