a term used to describe a court when all of the judges are sitting.

In existence or life at a given moment of time, as, in the phrase “life orlives in being” in the rule against perpetuities . An unborn child may, in somecircumstances […]

A term applied to the indorsement of a bill or note where it consistsmerely of the indorser’s name, without restriction to any particular Indorsee. 2 Steph.Comm. 104.

Among the goods or property; in actual possession . Inst. 4, 2, 2. In bonisdcfuncti, among the goods of the deceased.

As a whole; as an entirety, without division into items or physical separationin packages or parcels. Standard Oil Co. v. Com., 119 Ky. 75, 82 S. W. 1022;Fitz Henry v. […]

In chambers; in private.A cause is said to be heard in camera either when the hearing is had before the judgein his private room or when all spectators are excluded […]

To the heads; by beads or polls. Persons succeed to an inheritance incapita when they individually take equal shares. So challenges to individual jurors arechallenges in capita, as distinguished from […]

In chief. 2 Bl. Comm. 00. Tenure in capite was a holding directly from the king.In casu extremse necessitatis omnia sunt communia. Hale, P. C. 54. In cases ofextreme necessity, […]

In a (or the) case provided. In tali casu editum et provisum, insuch case made and provided. Townsh. PI. 104, 105.

In the cause, as distinguished from in initialibus , (q. v.) A term in Scotchpractice. 1 Brown, Ch. 252.

Principal; primary; directly obtained. A term applied to the evidenceobtained from a witness upon his examination in court by the party producing him.Tenure in chief, or in capite, is a […]

The conversion of the right to receive a variable or periodical payment into the right to receive a fixed or gross payment. Commutation may be effected by private agreement, but […]

A civil action is a proceeding in a court of justice in which one party, known as the “plaintiff,” demands against another party, known as the “defendant,” the enforcement or […]

In commendation ; as a commended living. 1 Bl. Comm. 393. See CO.MMENDA.A term applied in Louisiana to a limited partnership , answering to the French “encommandite.” Civil Code La. […]

A person employed by a merchant, or in a mercantile establishment , as a salesman, book-keeper, accountant, amanuensis, etc., invested with more or less authority in the administration of some […]

Shared in respect to title, use, or enjoyment, without apportionmentor division into individual parts; held by several for the equal advantage, use. or enjoymentof all. See Ilewit v. Jewell, 59 […]

The rank, situation, or degree of a particular person in some one of the different orders of society; or his status or situation, considered as a juridicial person, arising from […]

The final address made by a judge to the jury trying a case, before they make up their verdict, in which he sums up the case, and instructs the jury […]

In common. Fleta, lib. 3, c. 4,

In consideration of the premises. 1 Strange, 535.In consimili casu , consimile debet esse remedium. Hardr. 05. In similar cases theremedy should be similar.

In consideration or contemplation of law; in abeyance. Dyer, 1026.

In consideration thereof. 3 Salk. 04, pi. 5.

In his sight or view. 12 Mod. 95.In consuetudinibns, non diuturnitas temporis sed soliditas rationis est consideranda.In customs, not length of time,but solidity of reason, is to be considei-ed. Co. […]

Immediately ; without any interval or intermission. Calvin.Sometimes written as one word “inconti- nenti.”In contractibns, benigna; in testamen- tis, benignior; in restitutionibus, benignissimainterpretatio facienda est.Co. Litt. 112. In contracts, tbe […]

In body or substance; in a material thing or object.