The state of being in debt, without regard to the ability or ina-hility of the party to pay the same. See 1 Story, Eq. Jur. 343; 2 Hill, Abr. 421
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Lat Indebted. Nun-quam indebitatus, never indebted. The title of the plea substituted in England for nil debet
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Lat in the civ-il and Scotch law. A payment of what is not due. when made through lgnorance or by mistake, the amount paid might be re-covered back by an action termed “conditio indebiti” (Dig. 12, 6.) Bell
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L. Lat The 11a-bility to a fine, penalty, or amercement. CowelL
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Lat Thence; thenceforth; there* of; thereupon; for that cause
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The holder of an incumbrance, e. g., a mortgage, on the estate of another. De Voe v. Rundle, 33 wash. 604, 74 Pac. 836; Shaeffer v. w’eed, 8 111. 514; Newhall v. Insurance Co., 52 Me. 181
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Men contract debts; they incur liabilities. In the one case, they act attirma-tlvely; in the other, the liability is incurred or cast npon them by act or operation of law. “Incur” means something beyond contracts, —something not embraced in the word “debts.” Crandall v. Bryan, 5 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 169; Beekman v. Van Dolsen, 70 Hun, 288, 24 N. Y. Supp. 414; Ashe v. Young, 68 Tex. 123, 3 S. W. 454
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Any right to, or ln-terest in, land which may subsist in third persons, to the diminution of the value of the es-tate of the tenant, but consistently with the passing of the fee. Fitch v. Seymour, 9 Metc
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467; Huyck v. Andrews, 118 N. Y. 81, 20 N. E. 581, 3 L. R. A. 789, 10 Am. St. Rep. 432; Alling v. Burlock, 46 Conn. 510; Demars v. Koehler, 62 N. J. Law, 203, 41 Atl. 720, 72 Am. St. Rep. 642; Lafferty v. Milligan, 1G5 Pa. 534, 30 Atl. 1030; Stambaugh v. .Smith, 23 ohio St 591
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A person who is in pres-ent possession of an office; one who is le-gally authorized to discharge the duties of an office. State v. McCoilister, 11 ohio, 50; gtate v. Blakemore, 104 Mo. 340, 15 S. W. 960.
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ER. To Incumber land is to piake it subject to a charge or liability; e. g., by mortgaging it Incumbrances include not only mortgages and other voluntary charges, but also liens, lites pendentes, registered judgments, and writs of execution, etc. Sweet. See Newhall v. Insurance Co., 52 Me. 181
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To Impute blame or guilt; to accuse; to involve in guilt or crime
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In the law of evidence. Going or tending to establish guilt; Intended to establish guilt; criminative. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 251, 252
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To charge with crime; to expose to an accusation or charge of crime; to involve oneself or another in a criminal prosecution or the danger thereof; as, iu the rale that a witness is not bound to five testimony which would tend to incriminate him
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An unlawful gaining upon the right or possession of another. See Encboackment
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E. (1) The produce of land; (SO the offspring of animals
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Lat. Increase or im-provement, opposed to decrementum or abatement
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without body; not of material nature; the opposite of “corporeal,” (q. v
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A species of rogue or offender, described in the statutes 5 Geo. IV. c. 83, and 1 & 2 Vlct c. 38. 4 Steph. Comm. 309
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1. To create a corpo-ration; to confer a corporate franchise upon determinate persons
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1. The act or pro-cess of forming or creating a corporation; the formation of a legal or political body, with the quality of perpetual existence and succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation
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we incorporate, one of the words by which a corporation may be created in England. 1 Bl. Comm. 473; 8 Steph. Comm. .173
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want of chastity; ln-dulgence in unlawful carnal connection. Lucas v. Nichols, 52 N. C. 35; State v. IIewlin, 128 N. C. 571, 37 S. E. 952
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In the rule that statutes should he so. construed as to avoid
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