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INCHOATE LIEN

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A lien that has been created but is not yet in effect. … [Read more...]

INCLOSE

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To shut up. "To inclose a jury," in Scotch practice, is to shut them up in a room by themselves. Bell. See Union Pac. Ry. Co. v. Harris, 28 Kan. 210; Campbell v. Gilbert, 57 Ala. 569. … [Read more...]

INCIDENT

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A thing depending upon, pertaining to, or following another, called the principal. 2. The power of punishing for contempt is incident to a court of record; rent is incident to a reversion; distress to rent; estovers of woods to a tenancy for a life or years. This word, used as a noun, denotes anything which inseparably belongs to, or is connected with, or inherent in, another … [Read more...]

INCLOSED LANDS

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Lands which are actually inclosed and surrounded with fences. … [Read more...]

INCIDENT AND APPURTENANT

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That which is inseperable from and belongs to and that which is not (such as an easement), usually used in real estate to say that the aforementioned will pass to the purchaser from the seller, that which is incident and appurtenant to the land. … [Read more...]

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