In an equal cause. In a cause where the parties on each side have equal rights. In pari causa possessor potior haberi debet. In an equal cause he who has […]

In equal fault; equally culpable or criminal; in a case of equalfault or guilt. See Itozell v. Vansyckle, 11 Wash. 79, 39 Pac. 270. In pari delicto potior est conditio […]

Upon the same matter or subject. Statutes in pari materia are toconstrued together. United Society v. Eagle Bank, 7 Conn. 457; State v. Ger- hardt, 145Ind. 439, 44 N. E. […]

A portion of a legislative body, comprising one or more members, who are charged with the duty of examining some matter specially referred to them by the house, or of […]

A caveat is a formal written notice given to the officers of the patent-office, requiring them to refuse letters patent on a particular invention or device to any other person, […]

In suffering, permitting, or allowing.

In readiness; at hand.In propria causa nemo judex. No onecan be judge in his own cause. 12 Coke, 13.

In the breast of the judge. Latch, 180. A phrase applied to a judgment

In the worst part; on the worst side. Latch, 159, 160.

In perpetual memory of a matter; for preserving a record of a matter. Applied todepositions taken in order to preserve the testimony or the deponent

This means that a thing is forever or for all time.

In perpetual testimony of a matter;for the purpose of declaring and settling a thing forever. 1 Bl. Comm. 86.

A party, plaintiff or defendant, who sues out a writ or other process, orappears to conduct his case in court himself, instead of through a solicitor or counsel, issaid to […]

a term that is used that describes a suit that is brought against a person as against one about a certain thing.

In the Roman law, from which they are taken, the expressions”in rem” and ” in personam ” were always opposed to one another, an act or proceeding in personam being […]

For pious uses; for religious purposes. 2 Bl. Comm. 505.

In mining law, rock or mineralized matter is “in place” when remaining asnature placed it, that is, unsevered from the circumjacent rock, or which is fixed solidand immovable in the […]

In full life . Yearb. P. IS Hen. VI. 2.

In full county court . 3 Rl. Comm.’ 36

In public; in common knowledge ; in the light of day.In poenalibus cansis benignius inter- pretandum est. In penal causes or cases, themore favorable Interpretation should be adopted. Dig. 50. […]

This Is a term which covers several states of society; it is relative, and has not a fixed sense, but it implies an improved and progressive condition of the people, […]

In possibility ; not in actual existence. See IN ESSE.

In the power of a parent. Inst. 1, 8, pr.; Id. 1, 9; 2 Bl. Comm. 49S.

A person employed in a public office, or as an officer of a court, whose duty is to keep records or accounts.

L. Fr. In taking. A term applied to such incorporeal hereditaments as aparty entitled to them was to take for himself; such as common. 2 Steph. Comm. 23; 3 Bl. […]