Also known as: inheres · inhered · inhering · inherency · inherencies · inherent
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To exist as a permanent, inseparable, or essential attribute of a person or thing.
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Ingrid Innes, an unmarried resident, sought to purchase contraceptives from a pharmacy. State law barred sales to unmarried persons. The court recognized that the right of privacy inheres in Ingrid as an individual rather than only in married couples, so the restriction violated equal protection.
Imran Iyer, a network engineer for Inertia Dynamics, promised discounted service terms to Island Manufacturing. The company later refused the terms as unauthorized. The court held that inherent agency power derived solely from Imran's agency relation protected the third party even without actual or apparent authority.
Ivy Ibarra vacated leased premises and stopped paying rent. Island Manufacturing, the landlord, accepted the surrender. The court treated the offer of surrender as inherent in the abandonment, terminating the lease and limiting Ivy's liability to accrued rent and damages.
Ian Iverson and his partner sought state recognition of their marriage. The court held that the right to marry inheres in individuals as a fundamental liberty protected by due process, requiring the state to extend the status equally.
Ike Ingram alleged parallel pricing by competitors but supplied only conclusory assertions. The court held that the requirement of plausible conspiracy facts inheres in the Sherman Act claim itself, so the complaint failed to state a claim.
Isabelle Inman challenged a state ban on early abortions. The court held that the woman's privacy interest inheres in her decision whether to terminate a pregnancy before viability, rendering the ban unconstitutional.
Inherent agency power arises solely from the agency relation and protects third parties harmed by or dealing with the agent. It does not depend on the principal's manifestations or the agent's actual privilege.
No. The constitutionally protected right of privacy inheres in the individual, married or single, and protects personal decisions about bearing or begetting a child from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
The landlord may accept the offer and terminate the lease, leaving the tenant liable only for rent accrued before acceptance and damage caused by the abandonment.
…upon mistaken and exploded medical dogmas. With strange inconsistency, the law fully acknowledges the foetus in utero and its inherent rights, for civil purposes; while personally and as criminally affected, it fails to recognize it, and to its life as yet denies all protection." Id. , at 75-76. The Committee then…