IMAM, or IMAUM. A Moham-medan prince having supreme spiritual as well as temporal power; a regular priest of the mosqu
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An old form of “embargo,** (q. v.) SL 18 Car. II. c. 8
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The prefix to the title of a prince of the biood in England
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In English law. In cases ot treason the law makes it a crime to lmag-ine the death of the king. But, in order to complete the crime, this act of the mind must be demonstrated by some overt act. The terms “imagining” and “compassing’* are in this connection synonymous. 4 BL Comm. 78
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In medical jurisprudence. An image or Impression in the mind, excited by some external object addressing itself to one or more of the senses, bnt which, in-stead of corresponding with the reality, is perverted, distorted, or wholly mistaken, the error being attributable to the imagination of the observer, not to any defect in the or-gans of sense. See Hallucination, and see “Delusion,” under Insanity
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Unlettered; ignorant; unlearned. Generally used of oue who can-not read and write. See In re Succession of Carroll, 28 La. Ann. 388
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Lat. Unlawfully. This word has a technical meanlng, and is requisite in an indictment where the act charged is un-lawful; as in the case of a riot 2 Hawk
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In old Engllsh law. Without license. Fleta, llb. 3, c. 5, i 12
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Not permitted or allowed; pro-hlbited; unlawful; as an illicit trade; <1
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That whlch is con-trary to law; It is usually applied to bas-tards, or children born out of lawful wed-lock
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Not leviable; that can-not or ought not to be levled. Cowell
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Not authorized by law; U-licit; unlawful; contrary to law
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The condition before the law, or the social status, of a bastard; the state or condition of one whose parents were not intermarried at the tlme of hls birth. Miller v. Miller, 18 Hun (N. Y.) 509; Brown v. Belmarde, 3 Kan. 62
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Evil repute; notorious bad character. Houses of prostitution, gaming
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Lat Thlngs brought Into the honse for use by the ten-ant were so called, and were liable to the jus hypothec# of Roman law, just as they are to tbe landlord’s rlght of distress at common law
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Lat. A term of logic, sometimes applied to pleadings and to arguments on appeal, which signifies a mistake of the question, that is, the mistake of one who, failing to discern the real ques-tion which he is to meet and answer, ad-dresses his allegations or arguments to a collateral matter or somethlng beside the point. See Case upon tbe Statute for Dis-tribution, wythe (Va.) 309
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Lat. Ignorance; want of knowledge. Distinguished, from mistake, (error,) or wrong conception. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 178; Dig. 22, 6. Divided by Lord Coke into ignorantia facti (ignorance of fact) and ignorantia juris, (ignorance of law.) And the former, he adds, is twofold.—lec-tionis et lingua, (Ignorance of reading and ignorance of language.) 2 Coke, 3b
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Public dlsgrace; Infamy; reproach; dishonor. Ignominy is the op-posite of esteem, wolff, f 145. See Brown v. Kingsley, 38 Iowa, 220
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Lat. “we are igno-rant;” “We Ignore it.” Formerly the grand jury used to write thls word on bills of ln-dictment wben, after having heard the evi-dence, they thought the accusation against the prisoner was groundless, intimating that, though the facts might possibly be true, the truth did not appear to them; but now they usually wrlte in English the words “Not a true bill,” or “Not found,” if that is their verdict; but they are still said to ignore the bill. Brown
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Lat The old ju-dicial trial by fire. Blount
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