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INSTALLATION

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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

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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

INSTALLATION OR INSTALMENT

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The act by which an officer is put in public possession of the place he is to fill. The president of the United States, or a governor, is installed into office, by being sworn agreeably to the requisition of the constitution and laws. Vide Inauguration. … [Read more...] about INSTALLATION OR INSTALMENT

INSTIRPARE

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To plant or establish. … [Read more...] about INSTIRPARE

INSCRIPTION

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(A) civil law. An engagement which a person, who makes a solemn accusation of a crime against another, enters into, that he will suffer the same punishment, if he has accused, the other falsely, which would have been inflicted upon him had he been guilty. (B) evidence. Something written or engraved. 2. Inscriptions upon tombstones and other proper places, as rings, and the … [Read more...] about INSCRIPTION

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