Deficient in legal form; inartificially drawn up.
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INFORMAL PROCEEDINGS
a term applied to admitting a will to probate with none of the formalities being completed.
INFORMALITY
Want Of legal form. See State v. Gallimon, 24 N. C. 377; Franklin r. Mackey, 1G Serg. & It. (Pa.) 118; Hunt v. Curry, 37 Ark. 108.
INFORMATION
In practice . An accusation exhibited against a person for some criminal offense , without an indictment . 4 Bl. Comm. 308. An accusation in the nature of an indictment, […]
INFORMATION AND BELIEF
a phrase used when a person believes what he has said is true, even though some facts may be missing.
INFORMATUS NON SUM
In practice . I am not informed. A formal answer made by the defendant’s attorney in court to the effect that he has not been advised of any defense to […]
INFORMED CONSENT
the term given to a patient’s agreement to surgery.
INFORMER
A person who informs or prefers an accusation against another, whom he suspects of the violation of some penal statute.
INFORTIATUM
The name given by the glossators to the second of the three parts or volumes into which the Pandects were divided. The glossators at Bologna had at first only two […]
INFORTUNIUM, HOMICIDE PER
Where a man doing a lawful act without intention of hurt, unfortunately kills another.
INFRA
Lat Relow ; underneath ; within. This word occurring by itself in a book refers the reader to a subsequent part of the book, like “post.” It is the opposite […]
INFRA aiTATEM
Under age; not of age. Applied to minors.
INFRA ANNOS NUBILES
Under marriageable years; not yet of marriageable age.
INFRA ANNUM
Under or within a year. Bract, fol. 7.
INFRA ANNUM CLAUSE
a Latin phrase meaning that in an agreement the contract will be fulfilled with one year.
INFRA ANNUM LUCTUS
(Within the year of mourning.) The phrase is used in reference to the marriage of a widow within a year after her husband’s death, which was prohibited by the civil […]
INFRA BRACHIA
Within her arms. Used of a husband de jure, as well as de facto. 2 Inst. 317. Also inter braclUa. Bract, fol. I486. It was in this sense that a […]
INFRA CIVITATEM
Within the state. 1 Camp. 23, 24.
INFRA CORPUS COMITATUS
Within the body (territorial limits) of a couuty. Iu English law, waters which are infra corpus comitatus are exempt from the jurisdiction of the admiralty.
INFRA DIGNITATEM CURI
Beneath the dignity of the court; unworthy of the consideration of the court. Where a bill Iu equity is brought upon a matter too trilling to deserve the attention of […]
INFRA FUROREM
During madness; while in a state of insanity. Bract fol. 196.
INFRA HOSPITIUM
Within the inu. When a traveler’s baggage comes infra hos- pitium, i. e., in the care and under the custody of the innkeeper, the latter’s liability attaches.
INFRA JURISDICTIONEM
Within the jurisdiction . 2 Strange, 827.
INFRA LIGEANTIAM REGIS
Within the king’s ligeauce. Comb. 212.
INFRA METAS
Within the bounds or limits. Infra metas forcstai, within the bounds of the forest. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 41,