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An authority possessed without its being derived from another. A right, ability, or faculty of doing a thing, without receiving that right, ability, or faculty from another. … [Read more...] about INHERENT POWER

Frequently known as an IPO, the first sale of stock and securities to the public by a company in order to raise large amounts of capital. … [Read more...] about INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING

An obvious guaranteed right just by the fact that one is a human being and not a right granted pursuant to another outside means or source. … [Read more...] about INHERENT RIGHT

In Scotch law. Preliminaries of testimony. The preliminary examination of a witness, before examining him in chief, answering to the voir dire of the English law, though taking a somewhat wider range. Wharton. … [Read more...] about INITIALIA TESTIMONII

civ. law. Those freemen who were born free. Vicat, vocab. 2. They were a class of freemen, distinguished from those who, born slaves, had afterwards legally obtained their freedom the latter were called at various periods, sometimes liberti, sometimes libertini. An unjust or illegal servitude did not prevent a man from being ingenuus. … [Read more...] about INGENUI