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Imperfect; unfinished; begun, but not completed; as a contract not executed by all the parties. Inchoate instrument. Instruments which the law requires to be registered or recorded are said to be "inchoate" prior to registration, in .that they are then good only between the parties and privies and as to persons having notice. Wilkins v. McCorkle, 112 Tenn. 688, 80 S. W. S84. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In old records. A home close or inclosure near the house. Paroch. Antiq. 31; Cowell … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A lien that has been created but is not yet in effect. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
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...]
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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...]