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621 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.
622 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.
623 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.
624 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCUMBRANCE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A legal claim on the estate of another.
625 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INCUMBRANCER.1 (Noah Webster)
INCUMBRANCER, n. One who has an incumbrance, or some legal claim on an estate.
626 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.
627 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 …
628 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INHABITANT.2 (Noah Webster)
… a legal settlement in a town, city or parish. The conditions or qualifications which constitute a person an inhabitant of a town or parish, so as to subject …
629 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INTENDMENT.1 (Noah Webster)
… any legal instrument. In the construction of statutes or of contracts, the intendment of the same is, if possible, to be ascertained, that is, the true meaning …
630 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INTEREST.15 (Noah Webster)
… a legal rate of interest. Debts on book bear an interest after the expiration of the credit. Courts allow interest in many cases where it is not stipulated …
631 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INTESTABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
Not capable of making a will; legally unqualified or disqualified to make a testament; as, a person unqualified for want of discretion, or disqualified by loss of reason, is intestable.
632 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INVALIDITY.1 (Noah Webster)
INVALIDITY, n. Weakness; want of cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; as the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.
633 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IRREMOVABLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. That cannot be legally or constitutionally removed from office.
634 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IRREPEALABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
That cannot be legally repealed or annulled.
635 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ISSUE.19 (Noah Webster)
5. In legal pleadings, to come to a point in fact of law, on which the parties join and rest the decision of the cause. Our lawyers say, a cause issues to the court or to the jury; it issues in demurrer.
636 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUDICATURE.1 (Noah Webster)
JUDICATURE, n. The power of distributing justice by legal trial and determination. A court of judicature is a court invested with powers to administer justice between man and man.
637 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUDICIALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
JUDICIALLY, adv. In the forms of legal justice; as a sentence judicially declared.
638 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUDICIARY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Pertaining to the courts of judicature or legal tribunals.
639 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JURIDICALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
JURIDICALLY, adv. According to forms of law, or proceedings in tribunals of justice; with legal authority.
640 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JURISDICTION.2 (Noah Webster)
… . The legal power of authority of doing justice in cases of complaint; the power of executing the laws and distributing justice. Thus we speak of certain suits …