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...]
INDEFINITE FAILURE OF ISSUE
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...]
INDEPENDENT
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...]
INDICIA
(A) Latin term for signs or an indication that there is the probability of something, e.g. indicia of title, the suggestion that there is title held. (B) civil law. Signs, marks. Example: in replevin, the chattel must possess indicia, or earmarks, by which it can be distinguished from all others of the same description. This term is very nearly synonymous with the common law … [Read more...]
INCRIMINATE
To make one guilty of a crime, to show an involvement in a crime. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition To charge with crime; to expose to an accusation or charge of crime; to involve oneself or another in a criminal prosecution or the danger thereof; as, in the rule that a witness is not bound to give testimony which would tend to incriminate him. Incriminating … [Read more...]