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Latin: Freedom; liberty; the state or condition of one who is free. Also liberty given to a servant by manumission. Ingennitas regnL In old English law. The Freemen, yeomanry, or commonalty of the kingdom. Cowell. Applied sometimes also to the barons. … [Read more...] about INGENUITAS

To receive property from a person who has died, traditionally referring to someone who had a natural right to receive the estate property, such as a child. … [Read more...] about INHERIT

In French law. The name given to the important prerogative conferred by the charte constitutionnelle, article 16, on the late king to propose through his ministers projects of laws. 1 Toullier, no. 39. … [Read more...] about INITIATIVE

In Roman law. A person who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libertus, who, having been born a slave, was afterwards manumitted or made free. It is not the same as the English law term "gvnerosus," which denoted a person not merely free, but of good family. There were no distinctions among ingenui; but among liberiini there were … [Read more...] about INGENUUS

Blood which has the purity (freedom from attainder) and legitimacy necessary to give its possessor the character of a lawful heir; that which is capable of being the medium for the transmission of an inheritance. … [Read more...] about INHERITABLE BLOOD