INQ 



- INR 



the indictment under an innuendo ; but 

 before the innuendo is used, the circum- 

 stances must be stated to which it applies. 

 This is the plain and simple clue to solve 

 all the difficulties that have occurred up- 

 on the subject. 



INOCARPUS, in botany, a genus of the 

 Decandria Monogynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Dumosze. Sapotoe, Jus- 

 sieu. Essential character : calyx bifid ; 

 corolla funnel-form ; stamens in a double 

 row ; drupe one-seeded. There is but 

 one species, viz. I. edulis, a native of the 

 Society, Friendly, New Hebrides Isles, 

 &c. in the South Seas ; also in Amboyna. 



INOCULATION, in medicine, the art 

 of transplanting a distemper from one sub- 

 ject to another, by incision, particularly 

 used for ingrafting the small-pox. See 

 VACCINATION. 



INOCULATION. See BUDDING. 



INORDINATE proportion, is where 

 there are three magnitudes in one rank, 

 and three others proportional to them in 

 another, and you compare them in a dif- 

 ferent order. Thus suppose the numbers 

 in one rank to be 2, 3, 9 ; and those of 

 the other rank, 8, 24, 36 ; which are com- 

 pared in a different order, viz. 2 : 3 :: 24: 

 36 ; and 3 : 9 :: 8 : 24. Then rejecting the 

 mean terms of each rank, you conclude 

 2 : 9 :: 8 : 36. 



INQUEST, in law, an inquisition by 

 jurors, or jury, which is the most usual 

 trial of all causes, both civil and criminal, 

 within this realm. 



INQUISITION, in law, a manner of 

 proceeding by way of search and exami- 

 nation, and used in the king's behalf on 

 temporal causes and process, in which 

 sense it is confounded with office. This 

 inquisition is upon an outlawry found, in 

 case of treason and felony committed; upon 

 &felo de se, &c. to entitle the king to a 

 forfeiture of lands and goods ; and there 

 is no such nicety required in an in- 

 quisition as in pleading : because an 

 inquisition is only to inform the court 

 how process shall issue for the king, 

 whose title accrues by the attainder, 

 and not by the inquisition ; and yet, in 

 cases of the king and a common person, 

 inquisitions have been held void for uncer- 

 tainty. Some of the inquisitions are in 

 themselves convictions, and cannot after- 

 wards be traversed or denied, and there- 

 fore the inquest ought to hear all that can 

 be alleged on both sides. Of this na- 

 ture are all inquisitions of felo de se ; of 

 flight, in persons accused of felony ; of 

 deodands, and the like ; and presentment 

 of petty offences in the sheriff's term, 



or court leet, whereupon the presiding 

 officer may set a fine. Other inquisi- 

 tions may be afterwards traversed and 

 examined ; as particularly the coroner's 

 inquisition of the death of a man; for in 

 such cases the offender may be arraigned 

 upon the inquisition, and dispute the truth 



INROLLMENT, in law, is the register, 

 ing, recording, or entering in the rolls 

 of the Chancery, King's Bench, Common 

 Pleas, or Exchequer, or by the clerk of 

 the peace in the records of the quarter 

 sessions, ofany lawful act ; a statute or 

 recognizance acknowledged, a deed of 

 bargain and sale of lands, and the like. 

 But the inrolling a deed does not make it 

 a record, though it thereby becomes a 

 deed recorded ; for there is a difference 

 between a matter of record and a thing 

 recorded to be kept in memory ; a re- 

 cord being the entry in parchment of 

 judicial matters controverted in a court 

 of record, and whereof the court takes 

 notice, whereas an inrollment of a deed is 

 a private act of the parties concerned, 

 of which the court takes no cognizance 

 at the time of doing it, although the 

 court permits it. By statute 27"Henry 

 VIII. c. 16, no lands shall pass, whereby 

 any estate of inheritance or freehold 

 shall take effect, or any use thereof be 

 made, by reason only of any bargain 

 and sale thereof, except the bargain and 

 sale be made by writing indented, seal- 

 ed, and within six months enrolled in 

 one of the king's courts of record at 

 Westminster; or else within the county 

 where the lands He, before the clerk of 

 the peace, and one or more justices. But 

 by fifth Elizabeth, c. 26, in the counties 

 palatine, they may be enrolled at the 

 respective courts there, or at the assizes. 

 Every deed before it is enrolled is to be 

 acknowledged to be the deed of the par- 

 ty, before a master of chancery, or a 

 judge of the court wherein it is inrolled, 

 which is the officer's warrant for inrolling 

 it ; and the inrollment of a deed, if it be ac- 

 knowledged by the grantor, it will be a 

 good proof of the deed itself upon trial. 

 But a deed' may be inrolled without the 

 examination of the party himself; for it is 

 sufficient if oath be made of the execu- 

 tion. If two are parties, and the deed be 

 acknowledged by one, the other is bound 

 by it. And if a man live abroad, and 

 would have lands here in England, a no- 

 minal person may be joined with him in 

 the deed, who may acknowledge it here, 

 and it will be binding. There have been 

 plans proposed for the inrolling all coa- 



