Search for: legalism
601 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPRISONMENT.3 (Noah Webster)
… , without legal or sufficient authority. The arrest or detention of the person by an officer without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or by a legal warrant …
602 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPURE.7 (Noah Webster)
6. Unclean; in a legal sense; not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses.
603 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPURENESS.7 (Noah Webster)
5. Want of ceremonial purity; legal pollution or uncleanness. By the Mosaic law, a person contracted impurity by touching a dead body or a leper.
604 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INALIENABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
… be legally or justly alienated or transferred to another. The dominions of a king are inalienable. All men have certain natural rights which are inalienable …
605 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPABILITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Want of legal qualifications or of legal power; as the incapability of holding an office.
606 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPABLE.8 (Noah Webster)
… a legal sense; not having the legal or constitutional qualifications. A man not thirty years of age is unqualified, and therefore incapable of holding the …
607 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPACITATE.6 (Noah Webster)
5. To disqualify; to deprive of legal or constitutional requisites; as, conviction of a crime incapacitates one to be a witness.
608 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCAPACITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Want of qualification or legal requisites; inability; as the incapacity of minors to make binding contracts.
609 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCOMPATIBLE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Legally or constitutionally inconsistent; that cannot be united in the same person, without violating the law or constitution. By our constitution, the …
610 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCOMPETENCE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Want of legal or constitutional qualifications; as the incompetency of a witness.
611 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCOMPETENT.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications. A person convicted of a crime, is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity.
612 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCOMPETENT.7 (Noah Webster)
6. Unfit; improper; legally unavailable.
613 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCORPORATE.11 (Noah Webster)
… a legal body, or body politic; to constitute a body, composed of one or more individuals, with the quality of perpetual existence or succession, unless limited …
614 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCORPORATED.1 (Noah Webster)
INCORPORATED, pp. Mixed or united in one body; associated in the same political body; united in a legal body.
615 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCORPORATING.1 (Noah Webster)
INCORPORATING, ppr. Mixing or uniting in one body or mass; associating in the same political body; forming a legal body.
616 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCORPORATION.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Formation of a legal or political body by the union of individuals, constituting and artificial person.
617 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCUMBRANCE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A legal claim on the estate of another.
618 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCUMBRANCER.1 (Noah Webster)
INCUMBRANCER, n. One who has an incumbrance, or some legal claim on an estate.
619 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFORMALITY.1 (Noah Webster)
INFORMALITY, n. [from informal.] Want of regular or customary form. The informality of legal proceedings may render them void.
620 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INHABITANCY.1 (Noah Webster)
… or legal residence in a town, city or parish; or the domiciliation which the law required to entitle a pauper to demand support from the town, city or parish …