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International Monetary Fund … [Read more...] about IMF

Fr. These are, in French law, the immovables of English law. Things are immeubles from any one of three causes: (1) From their own nature, e. p., lands and houses; (2) from their destination, e.g., animals and instruments of agriculture when supplied by the landlord; or (3) by the object to which they are annexed, e.g., easements. Brown. … [Read more...] about IMMEUBLES

mar. law. 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. This is what the Italians call implicata. … [Read more...] about IMIPLICATA

A person from a foreign country into another for the purposes of becoming a permanent resident. … [Read more...] about IMMIGRANT

To greatly resemble. To copy. May refer to an illegal copy or a counterfeit item. The making of one thing in the similitude or likeness of another; as, counterfeit coin is said to be made "in imitation" of the genuine. An imitation of a trademark is that which so far resembles the genuine trademark as to be likely to induce the belief that it is genuine, whether by the use of … [Read more...] about IMITATION