title, estates. A right issuing out of, or annexed unto a thing corporeal. 2. Their existence is merely in idea and abstracted contemplation, though their effects and profits may be frequently the objects of our bodily senses. Co Litt. 9 a; Poth. Traite des Choses, 2. According to Sir William Blackstone, there are ten kinds of incorporeal hereditamenta; namely, 1. Advowsons. 2. … [Read more...] about INCORPOREAL HEREDITAMENT
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INCUR
To contract. To become obliged. To generate a debt. Men contract debts; they incur liabilities. In the one case, they act affirmatively ; in the other, the liability is incurred or cast upon them by act or operation of law. "Incur" means something beyond contracts, something not embraced in the word "debts." … [Read more...] about INCUR
INDECIMABLE
In old English law. That which is not titheable, or liable to pay tithe. 2 Inst 490. … [Read more...] about INDECIMABLE
INCORPOREAL PROPERTY
civil law. That which consists in legal right merely; or, as the term is, in the common law, of choses in actions. Vide Corporeal property. … [Read more...] about INCORPOREAL PROPERTY
INCURABLE INSANITY
Used in divorce cases, when a diagnosis of insanity is permanent in nature. This gives rise to a ground for divorce. … [Read more...] about INCURABLE INSANITY