In the law of divorce this term denotes extreme cruelty cruel and inhuman treatment barbarous savage and inhuman conduct and is equivalent to any of those phrases. … [Read more...]

Drunk. One who is incapacitated as a result of imbibing alcohol. … [Read more...]

Lat. In the civil law. Intestate; without a will. Calvin. … [Read more...]

Any liquor used as a beverage and which when so used in sufficient quantities ordinarily or commonly produces entire or partial intoxication; any liquor intended for use as a beverage or capable of being so used which contains alcohol either obtained by fermentation or by the additional process of distillation in such proportion that it will produce intoxication when imbibed in … [Read more...]

Lat. In the civil and old English law. An intestate; one who dies without a will. Dig. 50, 17, 7. Intestatus decedit, qui aut omnino testamentum non fecit ; aut non jure fecit; aut id quod fecerat ruptum irritumve factum est ; aut nemo ex eo haeres exstitit. A person dies intestate who either has made no testament at all or has made one not legally valid; or if the testament he … [Read more...]