Likeness; resemblance; equivalent as, instar dentium, like teeth; instar omnium, equivalent to all. … [Read more...] about INSTAR
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INSPEXIMUS
We have seen. A word sometimes used in letters-patent, reciting a grant, inspeximus such former grant, and so reciting it verbatim; it then grants such further privileges as are thought convenient. 5 Co. 54. … [Read more...] about INSPEXIMUS
INSTAURUM
In old English deeds. A stock or store of cattle, and other things; the whole stock upon a farm, including cattle, wagons, plows, and all other implements of husbandry. 1 Mon. Angl. 5485; Fleta, lib. 2, c. 72, … [Read more...] about INSTAURUM
INSTALLATION
The ceremony of inducting or investing with any charge, office, or rank, as the placing a bishop into his see, a dean or prebendary Into his stall or seat or a knight into his order. Wharton. … [Read more...] about INSTALLATION
INSTIGATION
The act by which one incites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to coramence a suit or to prosecute a criminal. Vide Accomplice. Incitation; urging; solicitation. The act by which one incites another to do something, as to commit some crime or to commence a suit. … [Read more...] about INSTIGATION
