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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...]

INQUIRENDO

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An authority given to some official person to Institute an inquiry, concerning the crown's interests. … [Read more...]

INNOVATION

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(A) Change of a thing established for something new. 2. Innovations are said to be dangerous, as likely to unsettle the common law. Certainly no innovations ought to be made by the courts, but as every thing human, is mutable, no legislation can be, or ought to be immutable; changes are required by the alteration of circumstances; amendments, by the imperfections of all human … [Read more...]

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