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This is not evidence properly so called, but the mere suggestion of evidence proper, which may possibly be procured if the suggestion is followed up. Brown. … [Read more...] about INDICATIVE EVIDENCE

The state or condition of being free from dependence, subjection, or control. Political Independence is the attribute of a nation or state which is entirely autonomous, and not subject to the government, control, or dictation of any exterior power. … [Read more...] about INDEPENDENCE

In English practice. A writ of prohibition that lies for a patron of a church, whose clerk is sued in the spiritual court by the clerk of another patron, for tithes amounting to a fourth part of the value of the living. 3 Bl. Comm. 91; 3 Steph. Comm. 711. So termed from the emphatic word of the Latin form. Reg. Orig. 35b, 36. … [Read more...] about INDICAVIT

executory devise. A general failure of issue, whenever it may happen, without fixing a time, or certain or definite period, within which it must take place. The issue of the first taker must be extinct, and the issue of the issue ad infinitum, without regard to the time or any particular event. 2. Bouv. Inst. n. 1849. A failure of issue not merely at the death of the party … [Read more...] about INDEFINITE FAILURE OF ISSUE

Not dependent; not subject to control, restriction, modification, or limitation from a given outside source. Independent contract. See Contract. Independent contractor. In the law of agency and of master and servant, an independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods and without being subject … [Read more...] about INDEPENDENT