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Harmless Error:
error which is not sufficiently prejudicial to require reversal of the previous finding or outcome
- Hearsay Rule:
a rule of evidence that requires the declarant be subject to cross-examination at the hearing; many exceptions to the rule exist
- Hidden Defect:
a defect or condition which is not observable by a reasonable inspection; see LATENT DEFECT
- Hung Jury:
a jury whose members cannot agree in sufficient numbers to reach a verdict, unanimous in criminal cases, federal civil cases and three-quarters in
some other states civil cases
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Immaterial: a rule of evidence that requires that the evidence must have a sufficient relationship to the issue in question
- Immunity:
a grant of freedom from responsibility
- Impact Rule:
a requirement of some states tort law whereby a physical contact with the person must occur in order of damages for emotional distress to be
recoverable
- Impanel:
to bring together in the courtroom the people selected to serve as the jury
- Impleader:
a rule of procedure whereby a third party is brought into an existing lawsuit
- Implied Consent:
a consent that is drawn from the facts of the surrounding circumstances
- Implied Contract:
a contract not expressly agreed upon in written terms but one created by the conduct of the parties
- Imputed Liability:
liability for the acts of another person which arises out of the operation of law
- In Absentia:
(lat.) in absence
- In Camera:
(lat.) in chambers
- Indemnity:
to wholly or partially responsibility for the loss that has been sustained by another
- In Forma Pauperis:
(lat.) as would a pauper. Normally refers to the right granted by the court to allow a party to proceed without the payment of costs due to
financial inability
- Informed Consent:
a consent that is obtained after a full disclosure of the facts and risks involved; sometimes an allegation in medical negligence cases
- Inherent Defect:
a defect that exists and is natural to the item
- Injunction:
an order of the court which requires a person or entity to refrain from pursuing a particular course of conduct or activity
- Injuria Absque Damno:
(lat.) wrong or insult without damage; see DAMAGE ABSQUE INJURIA
- Injuria Non Excusat Injuriam:
(lat.) one wrong does not justify another
- Injury
any damage or injury inflicted upon another
- In Limine:
(lat.) at the beginning
- In Loco Parentis:
(lat.) in the place of the parent
- In Personam:
(lat.) against the person
- In Re:
in the matters of
- In Rem:
(lat.) an action against a thing, as opposed to an action against a person
- Instruction:
the law as given be the court to the jury prior to their deliberations which states the applicable law to the issues in the case
- Inter Alia:
(lat.) among other things
- Interim Order:
a temporary order
- Interlocutory Order:
an order or ruling that determines an intermediate issue, but does not dispose of the case in chief
- Interpleader:
a rule of procedure that allows a person who has a thing or money not belonging to him, and who is not certain to whom among several claimants it
rightfully belongs, may give the thing or money to the court to decide who gets the thing or money
- Interrogatories:
in civil actions, a pretrial discovery tool in which written questions are sent by one party and are to be answered under oath by the other
party
- Intervention:
a proceeding permitting a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress
- Inter Vivos:
(lat.) between the living
- Invasion of Privacy:
the wrongful intrusion into a persons private life
- Invitee:
one who comes upon the land of another by invitation of the owner
- Ipse Dixit:
(lat.) he said it himself
- Irreparable Injury:
a loss for which no remedy at law would be sufficient and therefore a court sitting in equity may order a special relief other than money
damages
- Issue:
the item of fact or law in dispute
- Issue Preclusion:
an issue that has been decided in a previous litigation that thereafter is precluded from being re-litigated
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