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Terms
- Identity Theft
- The wrongful taking or using another person's identifying information for the purpose of fraud or other criminal activity.
Expanded Legal Definition of Identity Theft
- Ignorance of the Law
- A mistake of law in relation to a person's rights or responsibilities.
Expanded Legal Definition of Ignorance of the Law
- Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat
- Latin: ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Expanded Legal Definition of Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat
- Immovable
- Land and fixtures thereto, civil law term.
Expanded Legal Definition of Immovable
- Immunity
- An exemption that a person enjoys from the normal operation of the law such as a legal duty or liability, either criminal or civil.
Expanded Legal Definition of Immunity
- Impaired
- A deterioration of an individual’s judgment and decrease in his or her’s physical ability. Used primarily in criminal law; driving under the influence of alcohol or disability law in regards to a person’s physical or mental impairment.
Expanded Legal Definition of Impaired
- Implied Trust
- A trust that is imposed by law onto certain situations either by presuming an intention of the participants to create a trust, or simply because of the facts at hand.
Expanded Legal Definition of Implied Trust
- Imputation of Payments
- A civil law term: a system that allocates monies received from a debtor who has more than one debt and who has not, with the payment, specified to the creditor to which debt the monies are applied.
Expanded Legal Definition of Imputation of Payments
- In Camera
- A closed and private session of Court or some other deliberating body.
Expanded Legal Definition of In Camera
- Incest
- The crime of sexual contact with a blood relative usually including a parent, child, sibling, grandparent or grandchild.
Expanded Legal Definition of Incest
- Inchmaree Clause
- A standard clause in maritime insurance contracts covering risk of events not directly linked to perils at sea such as, but not necessarily limited to, loading accidents.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inchmaree Clause
- Inchoate
- A legal right or entitlement that is in progress and is neither ripe, vested nor perfected.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inchoate
- Inchoate Offence
- Acts which are criminal even though they precede harmful conduct.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inchoate Offence
- Incorporeal
- Legal rights which are intangible such as copyrights or patents.
Expanded Legal Definition of Incorporeal
- Incorporeal Hereditament
- An intangible right which is attached to property and which is inheritable.
Expanded Legal Definition of Incorporeal Hereditament
- Indefeasible
- A right or title in property that cannot be made void, defeated or canceled by any past event, error or omission in the title.
Expanded Legal Definition of Indefeasible
- Indemnity
- Contract with a third-party to perform another's obligations if called upon to do so by the third-party, whether the other has defaulted or not.
Expanded Legal Definition of Indemnity
- Independent Contractor
- A person hired by another not as an employee but, rather, pursuant to a contract for service where the engaging party does not supervise or control the detail of the work, and where the party engaged remains self-employed.
Expanded Legal Definition of Independent Contractor
- Indian
- Nomenclature selected by Canada and USA to refer to and define their aboriginal or indigenous people.
Expanded Legal Definition of Indian
- Indictable Offence
- An offence which the government can opt to cause trial by a more formal process than by summary process.
Expanded Legal Definition of Indictable Offence
- Indictment
- The formal document by which the state sets out the claim that a person has committed a crime. It is on the basis of an indictment that an accused person must stand trial.
Expanded Legal Definition of Indictment
- Indigenous
- Native to a particular territory.
Expanded Legal Definition of Indigenous
- Indigent
- A poor person; not penniless but in need and who has no financial support from any other.
Expanded Legal Definition of Indigent
- Indirect Tax
- The passing on of a tax or duty by the person who first pays it, through subsequent transactions.
Expanded Legal Definition of Indirect Tax
- Industrial Design
- A new product or packaging design, or some such ornamental feature, and eligible for intellectual property law exclusive-use protection.
Expanded Legal Definition of Industrial Design
- Infanticide
- Murder of an infant soon after its birth.
Expanded Legal Definition of Infanticide
- Inherent Jurisdiction
- The residual, automatic and ex officio authority of a court of law to regulate proceedings before it including punishing contempt.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inherent Jurisdiction
- Injunction
- A court order that prohibits a party from doing something (restrictive injunction) or compels them to do something (mandatory injunction).
Expanded Legal Definition of Injunction
- In Limine
- Latin: at the beginning or on the threshold.
Expanded Legal Definition of In Limine
- In Loco Parentis
- A person who, though not the natural parent, has acted as a parent to a child and may thus be liable to legal obligations as if he/she were a natural parent.
Expanded Legal Definition of In Loco Parentis
- Innocent Passage
- A term of international law referring to a ship or aircraft's right to enter and pass through another's territory so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the other state.
Expanded Legal Definition of Innocent Passage
- Innuendo
- In defamation, the inferential, inherent or secondary meaning of words.
Expanded Legal Definition of Innuendo
- In Pari Delicto
- Latin: both parties are equally at fault.
Expanded Legal Definition of In Pari Delicto
- In Personam
- Latin: regarding a person; a right, action, judgment or entitlement that is attached to a specific person(s).
Expanded Legal Definition of In Personam
- In Rem
- Latin: regarding a thing; proprietary in nature; a right or judgment related to the use or ownership of an item of property.
Expanded Legal Definition of In Rem
- Insanity
- Disorder which impairs the human mind and prevents distinguishing between actions that are right or wrong.
Expanded Legal Definition of Insanity
- Inscrutable Fault
- A judicial finding that a fault has occurred but the court is unable to locate the source, to pinpoint a tort-feasor.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inscrutable Fault
- Insider Trading
- Participation by corporate officers, directors or employees in the trade of a stock based on confidential or privileged corporate information, knowing that information to be confidential, and seeking thereby to acquire profits or avoid losses on the stock market.
Expanded Legal Definition of Insider Trading
- Insolence
- Insulting a supervisor at the workplace or during the tenure of an employment contract.
Expanded Legal Definition of Insolence
- Insolvent
- A person not able to pay his or her debts as they become due.
Expanded Legal Definition of Insolvent
- Insubordination
- Willful failure to obey a supervisor's lawful orders.
Expanded Legal Definition of Insubordination
- Insurance
- Where a persons agrees, for consideration, to pay a certain amount on the occurrence of a specified event.
Expanded Legal Definition of Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- As a type of property, intellectual property has that unique characteristic of being ethereal; of the mind, intangible, with no corporeal existence; hence, 'intellectual property'.
Expanded Legal Definition of Intellectual Property
- Intentional Tort
- Torts actionable upon evidence of an intent to cause harm on another, such as assault, trespass, false imprisonment, private nuisance, defamation or invasion of privacy.
Expanded Legal Definition of Intentional Tort
- Inter Alia
- Latin: 'among other things', 'for example' or 'including'.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inter Alia
- Interim Order
- A temporary court order; intended to be of limited duration, usually just until the court has had an opportunity of hearing the full case and make a final order.
Expanded Legal Definition of Interim Order
- Interlineation
- An addition of something to a document after it has been signed. Such additions are ignored unless they are initialed by the signatories and, if applicable, witnesses (eg. wills).
Expanded Legal Definition of Interlineation
- Interlocutory
- Housekeeping, procedural proceedings taken during the course of, and incidental to a trial.
Expanded Legal Definition of Interlocutory
- Interlocutory Injunction
- A temporary injunction; which lasts only until the end of the trial during which the injunction was sought.
Expanded Legal Definition of Interlocutory Injunction
- Interloper
- A person who, without legal right, runs a business (eg. without mandatory licenses), or who wrongfully interferes or intercepts another's business.
Expanded Legal Definition of Interloper
- International Commercial Arbitration
- A commercial dispute subject to arbitration and in which a significant international elements exists such as, for example, the head offices of the disputants are different countries or the performance of the underlying contract is in a foreign state.
Expanded Legal Definition of International Commercial Arbitration
- International Convention on Salvage, 1989
- An international treaty which standardizes, for signatories, the rules related to salvage and the compensation thereof.
Expanded Legal Definition of International Convention on Salvage, 1989
- International Law
- A combination of treaties and customs which regulates the conduct of states amongst themselves, and persons who trade or have legal relationships which involve the jurisdiction of more than one state.
Expanded Legal Definition of International Law
- Internet
- A global computer network through which the almost-instant delivery of data or files occurs between connected computers.
Expanded Legal Definition of Internet
- Inter Partes
- Latin: between parties.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inter Partes
- Interrogatories
- Pre-trial numbered and written questions on relevant matters to the litigation, sent to the other side of litigation, and for which reply is mandatory.
Expanded Legal Definition of Interrogatories
- In Terrorem
- Latin: in terror, fright, threat or warning.
Expanded Legal Definition of In Terrorem
- Inter Se
- Latin: as between or amongst themselves.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inter Se
- Inter Vivos
- Latin: from one living person to another living person.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inter Vivos
- Intestate
- Dying without a will.
Expanded Legal Definition of Intestate
- Intuitu Personae
- Latin: Because of the person.
Expanded Legal Definition of Intuitu Personae
- Inure
- To take effect, to result; to come into operation.
Expanded Legal Definition of Inure
- Invitation to Treat
- An invitation to another person to make an offer to contract.
Expanded Legal Definition of Invitation to Treat
- Invitee
- A person invited, implicitly or explicitly, upon the real property of another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Invitee
- Invitor
- Relevant to occupiers' liability; a person who, implicitly or explicitly, invites another to a place.
Expanded Legal Definition of Invitor
- IOU
- Acronym for "I owe you"; a written acknowledgment of a debt.
Expanded Legal Definition of IOU
- Islamic Law
- The law according to the Muslim faith and as interpreted from the Koran.
Expanded Legal Definition of Islamic Law
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