In some of the ancient English statutes this word is used to signify a printing-office, the art of printing, a print or impression
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Lat. Let it be prlnted. A license or allowance, granted by the constituted authorities, giving permisslon to print and publish a book. This allowance wns formerly necessary, in England, before any book could lawfully be printed, and in some other countries is still required
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A power possessed by the English crown of taking persons or property to aid in the defense of the country, with or without the consent of the persons concerned. It is usually exercised to obtain hands for the royal ships in time of war, by taking seamen engaged in merchant vessels, (1 Bl. Comm. 420; Maud & P. Shipp. 123:) but in former times impressment of merchant ships was also practiced. The admiralty issues protections against impress-ment in certain cases, either under statutes passed in favor of certain callings (e. g., persons employed in the Greenland fisheries) or voluntarily. Sweet
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Money pald on enlisting or lmpresslng soldiers or sailors
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Such rights as a person may use or not. at pleasure, since they cannot be lost to him by
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A “case of the first im-pression” is one without a precedent; one presenting a wholly new state of facts; one Involving a question never before determined
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To shut up stray animals or distrained goods in a pound. Thomas v. Harries, 1 Man. & G. 703; Goodsell v. Dunning, 34 Conn. 257; Howard v. Bartlett, 70 VL 314. 40 Atl. 825
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The state or quality of being incapable of prescription; not of such a character that a right to it can be gained by prescription
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In medical jurisprudence. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the species. Properly used of the male; but it has also been used synonymously with “sterility.” Griffeth v. Griff-eth, 162 111. 368, 44 N. E. 820; Payne v. Payne, 46 Mlnn. 467, 49 N. W. 230, 24 Am. St Rep. 240; Kempf v. Kempf, 34 Mo. 213
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A qualified property, which may subsist In animals ferae natura on account of thelr inability, as where hawks, herons, or other birds build In a person’s trees, or conies, etc., make thelr nests or burrows In a person’s land, and have yonng there, such person has a qualified property in them till they can fly or run away, and then snch property expires. 2 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.)
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An impossible contract is one which the law will not hold binding upon the parties, because of the natural or legal impossibility of the performance by one party of that which is the consideration for the promise of the other. 7 wait, Act ft Def. 124
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Taxes, duties, or impositions. A duty on imported goods or merchandise. Story, Const § 949. And see Norris v. Bos-ton, 4 Metc. (Mass.) 296; Pacific Ins. Co. v. Soule, 7 wait 435, 19 L. Ed. 93; woodruff v. Parham, 8 wall. 131, 19 L Ed. 382; Dooley v. U. S., 183 U. S. 151, 22 Sup. Ct 62, 43 L. Ed. 128; Passenger Cases, 7 How. 407, 12 L. Ed. 702
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Pressing solicitation; urgent request; application for a claim or favor which is urged with troublesome frequency or pertinacity, webster
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An Impost; tax; contribution. Paterson v. Society, 24 N. J. Law, 400; Singer Mfg. Co. v. Heppenheimer, 58
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The act of bringing goods and merchandise Into a country from a foreign country
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Importations; goods or other property imported or brought into the country from a foreign country
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Intendment or infer-ence, as dlstlngulshed from the actual expression of a thlng In words. In a wlll, an estate may pass by mere implication, without any express words to direct Its course. 2 BL Comm. 381
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This word is nsed in law as contrasted with “express;” i. where the Intention in regard to the subject-matter is not manifested by explicit and direct words, but is gathered by implication or necessary deduction from the circumstances, the gen-eral language, or the conduct of the parties
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Snch things as are used or employed for a trade, or furniture of a house. Coolidge ▼. Choate, 11 Metc. (Mass.) 82
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A term used in mercan-tile law, derived from.the Italian. In order to avoid the risk of making fruitless voyages, merchants have been in the habit of receiv-ing small adventures, on freight, at so much per cent, to which they are entitled at all events, even if the adventure be lost; and this is called “implicata.” wharton
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In practice. To sue or prosecute by due course of law. People ▼. Clarke, 0 N. Y. 368
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Sued or prosecuted; used particularly in the titles of causes where there are several defendants; as “A. B., im-pleaded with C. D.”
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