Legal procedure where a party to a lawsuit adds a third party to the lawsuit, typically a defendant to show that the third party is actually the party liable to the plaintiff. (Also see interpleader.) … [Read more...] about IMPLEADER
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IMPERSONATE
To commit identity theft. To represent one's self as another person. … [Read more...] about IMPERSONATE
IMPLEMENTS
Such things as are used or employed for a trade, or furniture of a house, Coolldge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.) 82. Whatever may supply wants; particularly applied to tools, utensils, vessels, instruments of labo. … [Read more...] about IMPLEMENTS
IMPERTINENCE
Irrelevancy; the fault of not properly pertaining to the issue or proceeding. The Introduction of any matters into a bill, answer, or other pleading or proceeding in a suit, which are not properly before the court for decision, at any particular stage of the suit Story, Eq. PLI 266; Harrison T. Perea, 168 TJ. S. 811. 18 Sup. Ct 129, 42 L. Ed. 478. In practice. A question … [Read more...] about IMPERTINENCE
IMPLICATA
A term used in mercantile law, derived from.the Italian. In order to avoid the risk of making fruitless voyages, merchants have been in the habit of receiving small adventures, on freight, at so much per cent, to which they are entitled at all events, even if the adventure be lost; and this is called "implicata." Wharton. … [Read more...] about IMPLICATA