This word is used in some ancient English charters to signify treasure-trove. … [Read more...]

That which is not to be violated. The attribute of being secured against violation. The persons of ambassadors are inviolable. … [Read more...]

One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that case the suggestion must be of the specific process or machine; for a general theoretical suggestion, as that steam might be … [Read more...]

In the law of negligence, and with reference to trespasses on realty f invitation is the act of one who solicits or incites others to enter upon, remain in, or make use of, his property or structures thereon,, or who so arranges the property or the means of access to it or of transit over it as to induce the reasonable belief that he expects and intends that others shall come … [Read more...]

A list, schedule, or enumeration in writing, containing, article by article, the goods and chattels, rights and credits, and, in some cases, the lands and tenements, of a person or persons. In its most common acceptation, an inventory is a conservatory act, which is made to ascertain the situation of an intestate's estate, the estate of an insolvent, and the like, for the … [Read more...]