INH 



INJ 



C, without external organs round : six 

 genera : 



Bacillaria, 

 Bursana, 



Encheiis, 



Monas, 

 Vibrio, 

 "Volvox. 



This order, Infusoria, is scarcely distin- 

 guished from the Intestina and Mollusca 

 by any other character, than the minute- 

 ness of the individuals belonging to it, 

 and their appearance in animal and vege- 

 table infusions, where we can discover no 

 traces of the manner in which they are 

 produced. The process, by which their 

 numbers are sometimes increased, is no 

 less astonishing than their first produc- 

 tion. Several of the genera often seem 

 to divide spontaneously into two or more 

 parts, which become new and distinct 

 animals. The volvox, and some of the 

 vorticellx, are remarkable for their con- 

 tinual rotatory motion, supposed to be in- 

 tended for the purpose of straining their 

 food out of the water : while other spe- 

 cies of the vorticella resemble fungi or 

 corallines in miniature. In some indivi- 

 duals of this order, the very singular pro- 

 perty is exhibited of retaining the vital 

 principle when perfectly dried ; after be- 

 ing kept for years in a cabinet, they may 

 be resuscitated at pleasure, by restoring 

 them to their proper fluid. 



INGOT, in the arts, is a small bar of 

 metal made of a certain form and size, by 

 casting it in hollowed iron or brass plates, 

 called ingot moulds. The term is chiefly 

 applied to the small bars of gold and sil- 

 ver, intended either for coining or expor- 

 tation to foreign countries. 



INHALER, a machine used for steam- 

 ing the lungs with the vapour of hot wa- 

 ter, for the cure of a cough, cold, inflam- 

 ed throat, &c. 



INHERITANCE, in law, is a perpetuity 

 in lands or tenements to a man and his 

 heirs ; and the word inheritance, is not 

 only intended where a man has lands or 

 tenements by descent, but also every fee- 

 simple, or fee-tail, which a person has 

 by purchase, may be said to be an inheri- 

 tance, because his heirs may inherit it. 

 Inheritances are corporeal or incorporeal. 

 Corporeal inheritances relate to houses 

 and lands, which may be touched or 

 handled ; and incorporeal hereditaments 

 are rights issuing out of, annexed to, or 

 exercised with corporeal inheritances, as 

 advowsons, tithes, annuities, offices, com- 

 mons, franchises, privileges, and services. 

 There are several rules of inheritances of 

 lands, according to which estates are 

 transmitted from ancestor to heir ; -viz. 



1. That inheritances shall lineally descend 

 to the issue of the person last actually 

 seized, in iiifinitum, but shall never lineal- 

 ly ascend. 2. Where there are two or 

 more males in equal degree, the eldest 

 only shall inherit ; but the females alto- 

 gether. 3. The lineal descendants, in in- 

 Jinitum, of any person deceased, shall re-i 

 present their ancestor; that is, shall stand 

 in the same place as the person himself 

 would have done had he been living: thus 

 the child, grand-child, or great grand- 

 child, (either male or female-) of the eld- 

 est son succeeds before the younger son, 

 and so in infinitum. 4. On failure of issue 

 of the person last seized, the inheritance 

 shall descend to the blood of the first 

 purchaser. 5. The collateral heir of the 

 person last seized must be his next col- 

 lateral kinsman of the whole blood. 6. 

 In collateral inheritances, the male stocks 

 shall be preferred to the female, unless 

 where lands are descended from a female : 

 thus the relations on the father's side are 

 admitted in iiifinitum before those on the 

 mother's side are admitted at all, and the 

 relations of the father's father before 

 those of the father's mother, and so on. 



INJECTION, in surgery, the forcibly 

 throwing certain liquid medicines into 

 the body by means of a syringe, tube, 

 clyster-pipe, or the like. 



INJECTION, anatomical, 'the filling the 

 vessels with some coloured substance, in 

 order to make their figures and ramifica- 

 tions visible. 



INJUNCTION, in law, is a prohibitory 

 writ, restraining a person from commit- 

 ing or doing a thing- which appears to be 

 against equity and conscience. An in- 

 junction is usually granted for the pur- 

 pose of preserving property in dispute 

 pending a suit; as to restrain the defen- 

 dant from proceedings at the common 

 law against the plaintiff, or from com- 

 mitting waste, or doing any injurious act. 

 Injunctions issue out of the courts of 

 equity in several instances : the most 

 usual injunction is to stay proceedings at 

 law; as if one bring an action at law against 

 another, and a bill be brought to be re- 

 lieved either against a penalty, or to stay 

 proceedings at law, on some equitable 

 circumstances, of Which the party cannot 

 have the benefit at law. In such case the 

 plaintiff in equity may move for an in- 

 junction, either upon an attachment, or 

 praying a dedimus, or praying a farther 

 time to answer ; for it being suggested 

 in the bill, that the suit is against con- 

 science, if the defendant be in contempt 

 for not answering, or pray time to answer, 

 it is contrary to conscience to proceed at 



