In Scotch practice. A technical expression applied to the decision of an inferior judge who has decided contrary to law; he is said to have committed iniquity. Bell.
lniquum est alios permittere, alios inhibere mercaturam. It is inequitable to permit some to trade and to prohibit others. 3 Inst. 181.
Iniquum est aUquem rei sui esse judicem. It is wrong for a man to be a judge in his own cause. Branch, Princ; 12 Coke, 113.
Iniquum est ingenuis hominibus non esse liberam rerum suarum alienationem. It is unjust that freemen should not have the free disposal of their own property. Co. Litt 223a; 4 Kent, Comm. 133 ; Hob. 87.