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INNOMINATE CONTRACTS

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civil law. Contracts which have no particular names, as permutation and transaction, are so called. Inst. … [Read more...]

INQUEST OF OFFICE

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An examination into a matter by an officer in virtue of his office. Vide Inquisition. … [Read more...]

INNONIA

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In old English law. A close or inclosure, (clausum, inclausura.) Spelman. … [Read more...]

INQUILINUS

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In Roman law. A tenant; one who hires and occupies another's house; but particularly, a tenant of a hired house in a city, as distinguished from colonus, the hirer of a house or estate in the country. Calvin. … [Read more...]

INNOTESCIMUS

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Lat. We make known. A term formerly applied to letters patent, derived from the emphatic word at the conclusion of the Latin forms. It was a species of exemplification of charters of feoffment or other instruments not of record. 5 Coke, 54a. … [Read more...]

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