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practice, actions. They accounted together. 2. When an account has been stated, and a balance ascertained between the parties, they are said to have computed together, and the amount due may be recovered in an action of assumpsit, which could not have been done, if the defendant had been the mere bailiff or partner of the plaintiff, and there had been no settlement made; for in … [Read more...] about INSIMUL COMPUTASSENT

In Spanish law. The presentation of a public document to a competent judge, in order to obtain his approbation and sanction of the same, and thereby give it judicial authenticity. Escriche. … [Read more...] about INSINUACION

Lat. In the civil law. A written accusation in which the accuser undertakes to suffer the punishment appropriate to the offense charged, if the accused is able to clear himself of the accusation. Calvin; Cod. 9, 1, 10; Id. 9, 2, 16, 17. … [Read more...] about INSCRIPTIO

Lat. In the civil law. To put into; to deposit a writing in court, answering nearly to the modern expression "to file." Si non mandatum actis insinuatum .est, if the power or authority be not deposited among the records of the court. Inst 4, 11, 3. To declare or acknowledge before a judicial officer; to give an act an official form. … [Read more...] about INSINUARE

(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