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INORDINATELY, adv. Irregularly ; not rightly.— 
As foon as a man defires any tiling inordinately, he is pre¬ 
sently difquieted in himfelf. Taylor. 
INOR'DINATENESS,/. Want of regularity ; intem¬ 
perance of any kind. . . 
INORDINA'TION, /. Irregularity; deviation from 
rio-ht.—Schoolmen and cafuifts, having too much philo¬ 
sophy to clear a lye from that intrinfic inordination and 
deviation from right reafon inherent in the nature of it, 
held that a lye was abfolutely and univerfally finfui. South. 
INORDINA'TUS, /. In old records, one who dies in- 
tdtstCs 
INORGAN'ICAL, adj. Void of organs or inftru mental 
parts._We come to the lowed: and the molt inorganical 
parts of matter. Bacon. 
TNORGAN'ITY,/ The ftate of being inorganical. 
To INOS'CULATE, v. n. [in and ofculum, Lat.] To 
unite by apportion or contaft.—This fifth conjugation 
of nerves is branched by inofculating with nerves. Dcr- 
/tam's P.hyfico-Theology. ... 
INOS'CULATING, J. The aft of uniting. 
INOSCULA'TION, f. Union by conjunction of the 
extremities.—The almoft infinite ramifications and inof- 
culations of all the feveral forts of velfels, may eafily be 
detected by glafles. Ray. 
INOWLOC'Z, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: fifty- 
fix miles fouth-eaft of Eenczicz. 
INOWLOC'Z AW, or Jnowlad'isi.ow, or Jungen- 
les'lavv, a town of the duchy of Warfaw: twenty-fix 
miles'welt of Wladiflaw. 
INOWROS'LAW. See Wladislaw. 
INOWSAL', a fmall illand near the north-eaft coaft of 
the illand of Borneo. Lat. 6.45. N. Ion. 117. 27. E. 
IN-PENNY and OUT-PENNY,/. Money paid by 
the cuitom of fome manors, on the alienations of tenants, 
- See. Regift. Prior de Cokesford, p. 25. 
IN POS'SE, adj. [a law term, from pdjfum, Lat. to be 
able.] In a ftate of poflibility. 
INPRISI'I,/. In old records, adherents or accomplices. 
INPROCI'NO, adv. [Latin.] In readinefs. Milton. 
INPROMP'TU. See Impromptu, vol.x.- 
IN'PUT, adj. [from in and put.] Impofed ; put upon. 
Chaucer. 
IN'QUEST, f [enqueue, .Fr. from inqui/itio, Lat.] Ju¬ 
dicial enquiry or examination.—-What confufion of face 
(hall we be under when that grand inqueft begins ; when 
an account of our opportunities of doing good, and a 
particular of our ufe or mifufe of them, is given in ? At- 
terbury. —Enquiry ; fearch ; ltudy.—This is the laborious 
and vexatious inquejl that the foul mult make after fei- 
ence. South. 
Inouest, in law, an inquifition of jurors, in caufes ci¬ 
vil and criminal, on proof made of the fa£t on either fide, 
when it is referred to their trial, being impannelled by 
the ftieriff for that purpofe ; and, as they bring in their 
verdift, judgment paffeth. Staundf. P. C. lib. 3. c. 12. 
An Inquejl of Office, or Inquifition, is an inquiry made by 
the king’s officer, his ftieriff, coroner, or efeheator, virtute 
officii, or by writ to them fent for that purpofe; or by com- 
miffioners fpecially appointed, concerning any matter that 
entitles the king to the poffeffion of lands or tenements, 
goods-or chattels. Finch, L. 323,4,5. Thefeinqueftsofoffice 
were more frequently in practice than at prefent, during 
the continuance of the military tenures ainongft us ; w hen, 
upon the death of every one of the king’s tenants, an in- 
queft of office was held, called an inqui/itio pojl mortem, to 
inquire of what lands he died feized, wdio was his heir, 
and of what age, in order to entitle the king to his mar¬ 
riage, wardlhip, relief, primer feiftn, or other advantages, 
as the circumftances of the cafe might turn out. To fu- 
perintend and regulate thefe inquiries, the court of wards 
and liveries was inftituted by ftat. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 46, 
which was abolilhed at the reftoration, together with the 
tenures upon which it was found. But, with regard to 
other matters, the inquefts of office (till remain in force, 
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and are taken upon proper occafions, being extended not 
only to lands, but alfo to goods and chattels perfonal, jls 
in the cafe of wreck, treafure-trove, and the like ; and 
efpecially as to forfeitures for offences. For every jury 
which tries a man for treafon or felony, every coroner’s 
inqueft that fits upon a felo de fe, or one killed by chance- 
medley, is, not only with regard tb chattels, but alfo t® 
real interefts, in all refpefts an inqueft of office ; and if they 
find the treafon or felony, or even the flight of the party 
accufed, (though innocent,) the king is thereupon, by 
virtue of this office found, entitled to have his forfeitures ; 
and alfo, in the cafe of chance-medley, he or his grantees 
are entitled to fucli things by way of deodand, as have 
moved to the death of the party. 
Whether a criminal be a lunatic or not, (hall be tried 
by an inqueft of office, returned by the ftieriff of the 
county ; and if it be found by the jury that he only feigns 
himfelf lunatic, and refufes to plead, he ftiajl be dealt 
with as one ftanding mute. H. P. C. 22S. 1 And. 107. 
Where a perfon (lands mute without making any anfwer, 
the court may take an inauell of office, by the oath of 
any twelve perfons prefent, if he do fo out of malice. Irons 
' a perverfe or obftinate difpofition, See. But, after the 
iffue is joined, when the jury are in court, if there be any 
need for fuel) inquiry, it (hall be made by them, and not 
by an inqueft of office. 2 Hawk. P. C. c. 30. § 5. If a 
perfon attainted of felony efcape, and, being retaken, de¬ 
nies he is the fame man, inqueft is to be made of it by a 
jury before he is executed. 2 Hawk. P.C. c. 51. 1 Bur. 18, 
ig. Inquifition on an untimely death, may be taken by 
juftices of gaol-delivery, oyer and terminer, or of the 
peace ; if omitted by the coroner. But it niuft be done 
publicly and openly, otherwife it (hall be quaffied. 
Inquefts of office were devifed by law, as an authentic 
means to give the king his right by folemn matter of re- 
' cord ; without which he in general can neither take nor 
part with any thing. Finch, L. 82. For it is a part of the 
liberties of England, and greatly for the fafety of the 
fubjeft, that the king may not enter upon or feize any 
man’s pofteffions upon bare furmifes without the inter¬ 
vention of a jury. Gilb. Hift. Exch. 132. Hob. 347. It is 
however particularly enabled by ftat. 33 Hen- VIII. c. 20, 
that, in cafe of attainder for high trealon, the king (hall 
have the forfeiture inftantly, without any inquifition of 
office. And, as the king hath (in general) no title at all 
to any property of this fort before office found ; therefore, 
by ftat. 18 Hen. VI. c. 6, it was enadled, that all letters 
patent or grants of lands andtenements before office found, 
or returned into the Exchequer, ffiall be void. And by 
the Bill of Rights, at the revolution, it is declared, that 
all grants and promifes of fines and forfeitures of particu¬ 
lar perfons before conviflion, (which is here the inqueft: 
of office,) are illegal and void ; which indeed was the law 
of the land in the reign of Edward III. 
With regard to real property, if an office be found for 
the king, it puts him in immediate poffeffion, without the 
trouble of a formal entry, provided a fubject in the like 
cafe would have had a right to enter ; and the king (hall 
receive all the mefne or intermediate profits from the time 
that his title accrued. Finch, L. 325, 6. As, on the other 
hand, by the articulifiber cartas, 28 Edw. I. ftat, 3. c. 19, 
if the king’s efeheator or ftieriff feize lands into the king’s 
hand without caufe, upon taking them out of the king’s 
hand again, the parly ffiall have the mefne profits reftored 
to him. 
There is not fuch nicety required in an inquifition as 
in pleading; becauie an inquifition is only to inform the 
court how procelsj 111 all ift’ue for the king, whofe title ac¬ 
crues by the attainder, and not by the inquifition ; yet, 
in the cafes of the king and a commo.n perfon, inquili- 
tions have been held void for uncertainty. Lane 39. z Netf 
Ab'r. 1008. 
In order to avoid the poffeffion of the crown acquired 
by the finding of fuch office, the fubjeft may not .only 
have-his petition of right, which difclofes new facts* not 
L e found 
