| Term | Definition |
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| Inter vivos gift | A gift made during the giver's life. |
| Inter vivos trust | Another name for living trust. |
| Interlocutory | Provisional; not final. An interlocutory order or an interlocutory appeal concerns only a part of the issues reaised in a lawsuit. |
| Interrogatories | Written questions asked by one party in a lawsuit for which the opposing party must provide written answers. |
| Intervention | An action by which a third person who may be affected by a lawsuit is permitted to become a party to the suit. Differs from the process of becoming an amicus curiae. |
| Intestacy laws | See descent and distrubition statutes. |
| Intestate | Dying without having a will. |
| Intestate succession | The process by which the property of a person who has died without a will passes on to others according to the state's descent and distribution statutes. If someone dies without a will, and the court uses the state's intestate succession laws, an heir who receives some of the deceased' s property is an intestate heir. |
| Invoke the rule | Separation and exclusion of witnesses from the courtroom. |
| Irrevocable trust | A trust that, once set up, the grantor may not revoke. |
| Issue | 1. The disputed point in a disagreement between parties in a lawsuit. |
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