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IMPORTS

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Importations; goods or other property imported or brought into the country from a foreign country. … [Read more...] about IMPORTS

IMPORTUNITY

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Urgent solicitation, with troublesome frequency and pertinacity. 2. Wills and devises are sometimes set aside in consequence of the importunity of those who have procured them. Whenever the importunity is such as to deprive the devisor of the freedom, of his will, the devise becomes fraudulent and void. … [Read more...] about IMPORTUNITY

IMPOSITION

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An impost; tax; contribution. Paterson v. Society, 24 N. J. Law, 400; Singer Mfg. Co. v. Heppenheimer, 58 N. J. Law, 633, 34 Ati. 1061, 32 L. R. A. 643. … [Read more...] about IMPOSITION

IMPOSITIONS

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Imposts, taxes, or contributions. … [Read more...] about IMPOSITIONS

IMPOSSIBILITY

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The character of that which. cannot be done agreeably to the accustomed order of nature. 2. It is a maxim that no one is bound to perform an impossibility. That which, in the constitution and course of nature or the law, no man can do or perform. Impossibility is of the following several sorts: An act is physically impossible when it is contrary to the course of nature Such an … [Read more...] about IMPOSSIBILITY

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