A judgment, decree, rule, injunction, etc., when given or rendered without adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as to all the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a mistaken assumption or misleading information or advice, is sometimes said to have been "improvidently" given or issued. … [Read more...] about IMPROVIDENTLY
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IN ACTION
Attainable or recoverable by action; not in possession. A term applied to property of which a party has not the possession, but only a right to recover it by action. Things in action are rights of personal things, which nevertheless are not in possession. See CHOSE IN ACTION. … [Read more...] about IN ACTION
IMPRUIARE
In old records. To improve land. Impruiamentum, the improvement so made of it Cowell. … [Read more...] about IMPRUIARE
IN ADVERSUM
Against an adverse, unwilling, or resisting party. "A decree not by consent, but in adversum" 3 Story, 318. In asdificils lapis mala positus non est removendu. 11 Coke, 69. A stone badly placed In buildings is not to be removed. … [Read more...] about IN ADVERSUM
IMPUBER
civil law. One who is more than seven years old, or out of infancy, and who has not attained the age of an adult, and who is not yet in his puberty that is, if a boy, till he has attained his full age of fourteen years, and, if a girl, her full age of twelve years. … [Read more...] about IMPUBER