The legal property that is the creative product of the mind, which includes the law of copyright (works of authorship), trademark (ownership of brands and marketing efforts) and patent (inventions of the mind.) … [Read more...] about INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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INSURGENT
One who participates in an Insurrection; one who opposes the execution of law by force of arms, or who rises in revolt against the constituted authorities. A distinction is often taken between "insurgent" and "rebel," in this: that the former term is not necessarily to be taken in a bad sense, inasmuch as an insurrection, though extralegal, may be just and timely in itself; as … [Read more...] about INSURGENT
INTELLIGIBILITY
In pleading. The statement of matters of fact directly (excluding the necessity of Inference or argument to arrive at the meaning) and in such appropriate terms so arranged as to be comprehensible by a person of common or ordinary understanding. … [Read more...] about INTELLIGIBILITY
INSURRECTION
A rebellion, or rising of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government. See INSURGENT. Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the state, with intent to the denial thereof, when the same is manifested, or intended to be manifested, by acts of violence. Code Ga. 1882, … [Read more...] about INSURRECTION
INTEMPERANCE
Habitual intemperance is that degree of intemperance from the Use of intoxicating drinks which disqualifies the person a great portion of the time from properly attending to business, or which would reasonably inflict a course of great mental anguish upon an Innocent party. Civ. Code Cal % 106. And see Mowry v. Home L. Ins. Co., 9 R. I. 355; Zeigler v. Com. (Pa.) 14 Atl. 238; … [Read more...] about INTEMPERANCE
