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the plain and simple clue to solve all the 
difficulties that have occurred upon the sub- 
ject. 
INOCARPUS, in botany, a genus of the 
Decandria Monogynia class and order. 
Natural order of Dumosae. Sapotae, Jus- 
sieu, Essential character: calyx bifid; co- 
rolla funnel-form ; stamens in a double row ; 
drupe one-seeded. There is but one species, 
viz. I. edulis, a native of the Society, Friend- 
ly, 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 Vac- 
cination. 
Inoculation. See Budding. 
INORDINATE proportion, is where 
there are three magnitudes in one rank, and 
three others proportional to them in ano- 
ther, and you compare them in a different 
order. Thus suppose the numbers in one 
rank to be 2, 3, 9 ; and those of the other 
rank 8, 24, 36 ; which are compared 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 a 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 examina- 
tion, and used in the king’s behalf on tem- 
poral causes and process, in which sense it 
is confounded with office. This inquisition 
is upon an outlawry found, in case of trea- 
son and felony committed ; upon a felo de 
se, &c. to entitle the king to a forfeiture of 
lands and goods ; and there is no such nicety 
required in an inquisition 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 uncertainty. Some 
of the inquisitions are in themselves convic- 
tions, and cannot afterwards be traversed 
or denied, and therefore the inquest ought 
to hear all that can be alledged on both 
sides. Of this nature are all inquisitions 
of felo dese; of flight, in persons accused 
of felony ; of deodands, and the like ; and 
presentment of petty offences in the she- 
riff’s term, .or court leet, whereupon the 
presiding officer may set a fine. Other in- 
quisitions may be afterwards traversed and 
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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 
of it. 
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, of 
any 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 record 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 2 7 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 bar- 
gain and sale thereof, except the bargain 
and sale be made by writing indented, 
sealed, and within six months inrolled in 
one of the king’s courts of record at West- 
minster; or else within the county where 
the lands lie, before the clerk of the peace, 
and one or more justices. But by fifth 
Elizabeth, c. 26, in the counties palatine, 
they may be inrolled at the respective 
courts there, or at the assizes. Every deed 
before it is inrolled is to be acknowledged 
to be the deed of the party, 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 acknowledged 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 him- 
self; for it is sufficient if oath be made of 
the execution. 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 
nominal 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 convey- 
ances of lands, and registering them, in or- 
der to secure men’s titles ; but this has 
been objected to by the landed interest in 
