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Homicide
a particular duty, kills a person who resists or prevents him from executing it. (g) Where it is committed in prevention of a forcible and atrocious crime, 1 Hale, 488. II. Excusable, of two kinds:- (a) Per
House of Lords
causes, but only upon appeals and proceedings in error to rectify any injustice or mistake of the law committed by the courts below, 3 Hallam's Constit. Hist.; Consult Macqueen's Practice of the House of Lords; Sugden's Law
Identitate, or idemptitate nominis
nominis, an ancient and obsolete writ that lay for one taken and arrested in any personal action and committed to prison for another man of the same name, Fitz. NB 267.
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Imminently dangerous
if a mental condition renders a person imminently dangerous to self or others, he or she may be committed to a mental hospital. And the imminently dangerous behaviour of pointing a gun at someone's head could subject
Impair
of (property or property right). This term is commonly used in reference to diminishing the value of a contractual obligation to the point that the contract becomes invalid or a party loses the benefit of the contract,
Imprisonment
Act, 1908, a child under 14 cannot be sentenced to imprisonment or penal servitude for any offence, or committed to prison in default of payment of a fine, damages, or costs, and a young person (i.e., one
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English). A series of statutes, each of a temporary character, curtailing the contractual rights, in respect of certain classes of property, of landlords and mortgagees. This legislation was rendered necessary, in
Justices
any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no
Infant
bet or borrow money. See Milton v. Studd, (1910) 2 KB 118. An infant is liable for torts committed by him unless the tort has arisen out of a contract, see R. Leslie v. Shiell, (1914) 3
Infihit, or insocna
Infihit, or insocna, violence committed on a person by one inhabiting the same dwelling.
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