Lat. Unskillfulness; want of skill.Imperitia culpa! adnumeratur. Want of skill is reckoned as culpa; that is, as blamableconduct or neglect. Dig. 50, 17, 132.Imperitia est maxima mechanicorum poena. Unskillfulness is […]

The right to command, which includes the right to employ the force ofthe state to enforce the laws. This is one of the principal attributes of the power of theexecutive. […]

Lit. Impersonality. A mode of expression where no reference ismade to any person, such as the expression “ut dieit ur,” (as is said.) Co. Litt. 3526. Impersonalitas non concludit nec […]

the term that describes a person who is pretending to be someone else.

Irrelevancy ; the fault of not properly pertaining to the issue orproceeding. The introduction of any matters into a bill, answer, or other pleading orproceeding in a suit, which are […]

In equity pleading .That which does not belong to a pleading, interrogatory, or other proceeding; out ofplace; superfluous ; irrelevant .At law. A term applied to matter not necessary to […]

In old records. To impeach or accuse. Impescatus, impeached. Blount.

Impeachment of waste, (q. v.)

In old English practice. To obtain by request, as a writ or privilege.Bract, fols. 57, 1726. This application of the word seems to be derived from the civillaw. Calvin.

In old English law. The obtaining anything by |>etition or entreaty.Particularly, the obtaining of a benefice from Rome by solicitation , which beneficebelonged to the disposal of the king or […]

Umpire, (q. v.)

Impairing or prejudicing. Jacob.

Pledged; given In pledge, (pignori data;) mortgaged. A term appliedin Bracton to land. Bract, fol. 20.

The act of pawning or putting to pledge.Impins et crudelis judicandus est qui libertati non favet. He is to be judged Impiousand cruel who does not favor liberty. Co. Litt. […]

In practice . To sue or pros ecute by due course of law . People v. Clarke, 9N. Y. 368.

Sued or prosecuted; used particularly in the titles of causes wherethere are several defendants; as “A. B., impleaded with C. D.”

Such things as are used or employed for a trade, or furniture of ahouse. Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Mass.)Whatever may supply wants; particularly applied to tools, utensils, vessels,instruments of […]

A term used in mercantile law , derived from the Italian. In order toavoid the risk of making fruitless voyages, merchants have been in the habit of receivingsmall adventures, on […]

Intendment or inference, as distinguished from the actual expressionof a thing in words. In a will, an estate may pass by mere implication , without anyexpress words to direct its […]

This word is used In law as contrasted with “express;” i. e

One inferred from the acts or conduct of the parties, instead of being expressed by them in written or spoken words; one inferred by the law where the conduct of […]

applied to the assent that is agreed to but has not been stated expressly.

An undertaking or promise not formally made, but presumed or implied from the conduct of a party. Willen- borg v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 11 111. App. 302.

a term given to the power that an agent has or the authority under certain circumstances .

where a person induces another person into doing something that he does not wants to do.