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                  Il Im In Is It
                  Inc Ind Inf Inh Inq Ins Int Inv

                  inquest or inquisition

                  an enquiry made by a sheriff of a county and a number of locals as jurymen into a point of fact; it is usually held to establish who is next heir to a piece of heritable property (what can be called an ‘inquisition post mortem’), but they could in theory be about virtually anything.