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Evidence that is not admitted and unable to be used in court. … [Read more...] about INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE

A house burner; one guilty of arson; one who maliciously and willfully sets another person's building on fire. Incendium cere alieno non exult deb itorem. Cod. 4, 2, 11. A fire does not release a debtor from his debt … [Read more...] about INCENDIARY

Heedlessness; lack of attention; failure of a person to pay careful and prudent attention to the progress of a negotiation or a proceeding in court by which his rights may be affected. Used chiefly in statutory enumerations of the grounds on which a Judgment or decree ma? be vacated or set aside; as, "mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect." See Skinner v. Terry, … [Read more...] about INADVERTENCE

This word is applied to those things, the property of which cannot be lawfully transferred from one person to another. Public highways and rivers are of this kind; there are also many rights which are inalienable, as the rights of liberty, or of speech. Not subject to alienation; the characteristic of those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred from one person to … [Read more...] about INALIENABLE

Property given to a person who is entrusted to take care of it for another. The property is given in trust for the beneficiary. … [Read more...] about IN TRUST