In body or substance; in a material thing or object
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In consideration or contemplation of law; in abey-ance. Dyer, 102b
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In commendatlon; as a commended llvlng. 1 BL Comm. 393. See COMMENDA
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Shared in respect to title, nse, or enjoyment, without apportionment or division into individual parts; held by sever-al for the equal advantage, use, or enjoy-ment of all. See Hewit v. Jewell, 59 Iowa, 87, 12 N. W. 738; Chambers v. Harrington, 111 U. S. 350, 4 Sup. Ct. 428, 28 L. Ed. 452; walker v. Dunsbee, 88 Pa. 439
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In the cause, as distlnguisb-ed from in initialibus, (q. v.) A term in Scotch practice. 1 Brown, Ch. 252
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Principal; primary; directly obtained. A term applled to the evidence obtained from a witness upon hls examina-tion in court by the party producing him
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In chief. 2 Bl. Comm. 60. Tenure in capite was a holding directly from the king
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In a (or the) case provided. In tali casu editum et provisum, in such case made and provided. Townsh. Pl. 1(54. 165
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In chambers; in private. A cause is said to be heard in camera either when the hearing is had before the Judge in his private room or when all spectators are excluded from the court-room
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To the heads; by heads or polls. Persons succeed to nn inheritance in capita when they individually take equal shares. So challenges to individual jurors are challenges in capita, as dlstlngulshed from challenges to the array
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Among the goods or property; In actual possession. Inst. 4, 2, 2. In bonis defunctl, among the goods of the deceased
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As a whole; as an entirety, without division into items or physical sep-aration in packages or parcels. Standard 011 Co. v. Com., 119 Ky. 75, 82 8. W. 1022; Fitz Henry v. Munter, 33 wash. 629, 74 Pac. 1003; State ▼. Smith. 114 Mo. 180, 21 S. W. 493
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In existence or life at a giv-en moment of time, as, in the phrase “life or lives in being” in the rule against per-petnities. An unborn child may, in some circumstances be considered as “in being.” Phillips v. Herron, 55 ohio St. 478, 45 N, E. 720; Hone v. Van Schalck, 3 Barb. Ch. (N. Y.) 509
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A ten., applied to the ln-dorseinent of a bill or note where it consists merely of the lndorser’s name, without restriction to any particular Indorsee. 2 Steph. Comm. 164
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L. Fr. In anoth-er’s right As representing another. An ex
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In hank; in the bench. A term applied to proceedings in the court in bank, as distinguished from proceedings at nisi prius. Also, in the English court of common beuch
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In the article of death; at the point of death. Jack-son ▼. Vredenbergh, 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 159
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In open daylight; in tbe day-time. 9 Coke, 65b
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Among the sub-tleties or extreme doctrines of the law. 1 Eames, Eq. 190. See Apex Juris
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