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A designation of sheriffs, coroners, super visum corporis, and the like, who have power to inquire into certain matters. 2. The name, of an officer, among ecclesiastics, who is authorized to inquire into heresies, and the like, and to punish them. An ecclesiastical judge. … [Read more...] about INQUISITOR

pleading. An averment which explains the defendant's meaning by reference to antecedent matter. The innuendo is mostly used in actions for slander. An innuendo, as, he the said plaintiff meaning, is only explanatory of some matter expressed; it serves to apply the slander to the precedent matter, but cannot add or enlarge, extend, or change the sense of the previous words, and … [Read more...] about INNUENDO

A form of "enroll," used In the old books. 3 Rep. Ch. 63, 73 ; 3 East 410. … [Read more...] about INROLL

In the civil law. Inofficious; contrary to natural duty or affection. Used of a will of a parent which disinherited a child without just cause, or that of a child which disinherited a parent, and which could be contested by querela in objectiosi testament),. Dig. 2, 5, 3, 13; Paul us, lib. 4, tit 5, i L … [Read more...] about INOFFICIOSUM

The act of putting upon a roll. Formerly, the record of a suit was kept on skins of parchment, which, best to preserve them, were kept upon a roll or in the form of a roll; what was written upon them was called the inrollment. After, when such records came to be kept in books, the making up of the record retained the old name of inrollment. … [Read more...] about INROLLMENT