In the first place. A phrase used in argument

At the beginning.

a Latin term used to describe acting in your own defence or serving as your own attorney.

In one’s own proper person.In quo quis delinquit, in eo de jure est puniendus. In whatever thing one offends, in that is he rightfully to be punished. Co. Litt. 2336; […]

In confirmation or attestation of the premises. A notarial phrase.In proeparatoriis ad judicium favetur actori. 2 Inst. 57. In things precedingjudgment the plaintiff is favored.

At the present time. 2 Rl. Comm. 100. Used in opposition to in futuro.See Van Wyck v. Knevals, 100 U. S. 3G0, 1 Sup. Ct. 336, 27 L. Ed. 201.In […]

In the affair; in the matter of. This is the usual method of entitling a judicial proceeding in which there are not adversary parties, but merely some res concerning which […]

The transfer of the title of land from one person or class of persons to another. Klein v. McNamara, 54 Miss. 105; Alexander v. State, 28 Tex. App. 180, 12 […]

A technical term used to designate proceedings or actions instituted againstthe thine, in contradistinction to personal actions, which are said to be in personam .See IN PERSONAM.It is true that, […]

A thing is said to lie in render when it must be rendered or given by thetenant; as rent. It is said to lie in prender when it consists in […]

In the nature of things; in the realm of actuality; in existence.In a dilatory plea , an allegation that the plaintiff is not in rerum natura is equivalent toaverring that […]

The command of the king’s letters to perform some act; as a charge to enter heir . Also a messenger’s execution, requiring a person to obey the order of the […]

In the writing- case of the judge; among the judge’s papers.”That is a thing that rests in serinio judieis, and does not appear iu the body of thedecree.” Ilardr. 51.

In several; in severalty. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 54,

Dealing with the same or a kindred subject-matter .

In simple pilgrimage. Bract, fol. 338. A phrase in the old law of essoins. See IN GENERALIPASSAGIO.

In the civil law . For the whole; as a whole. An obligation in solido is onewhere each of the several obligors is liable for the whole; that is. it […]

For the whole. Si plures sint fidejussores, quotquot erunt nu- mero,singuli in solidum tenentur, if there be several sureties, however numerous they may be, they are individually bound for thewhole […]

In the soil or ground. In solo alieno, in another’s ground. In solo proprio,in one’s own ground. 2 Steph. Comm. 20.

In the condition in which it was. See STATUS QUO.In stipnlationibus cnm quseritur quid actum sit verba contra stipulatorem interpretandasunt. In the construction of agreements words are interpreted against theperson […]

a Latin phrase that means without change and in the same situation as it was.

In the law of Intestate succession. According to the roots or stocks; byrepresentation; as distinguished from succession per capita . See IJEB STIRPES; PER CAPITA.

In aid. In sno quisqne negotio bebetior est quam in alieno. Every one is more dull in hisown business than in another’s.

In so much; so much; so far; so greatly. Reg. Orig. 07, 10G.

In terms of determination ; exactly in point. 11 Coke, 406. In express or determinateterms. 1 Leon. 93.