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621 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 …
622 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 …
623 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 …
624 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.
625 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.
626 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IRREMOVABLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. That cannot be legally or constitutionally removed from office.
627 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IRREPEALABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
That cannot be legally repealed or annulled.
628 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.
629 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.
630 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUDICIALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
JUDICIALLY, adv. In the forms of legal justice; as a sentence judicially declared.
631 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JUDICIARY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Pertaining to the courts of judicature or legal tribunals.
632 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.
633 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 …
634 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LAW.34 (Noah Webster)
Hence the phrase, to go to law, to prosecute; to seek redress in a legal tribunal.
635 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LAW.39 (Noah Webster)
Law language, the language used in legal writings and forms, particularly the Norman dialect or Old French, which was used in judicial proceedings from the days of William the conqueror to the 36th year of Edward III.
636 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LAWFUL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Agreeable to law; conformable to law; allowed by law; legal; legitimate. That is deemed lawful which no law forbids, but many things are lawful which are not expedient.
637 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LAWFULLY.1 (Noah Webster)
LAWFULLY, adv. Legally; in accordance with law; without violating law. We may lawfully do what the laws do not forbid.
638 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LAWFULNESS.1 (Noah Webster)
LAWFULNESS, n. The quality of being conformable to law; legality. The lawfulness of an action does not always prove its propriety or expedience.
639 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGAL.1 (Noah Webster)
LEGAL, a. [L. legalis, from lex, legis, law.]
640 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGAL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. According to law; in conformity with law; as a legal standard or test; a legal procedure.