Definition
"Ible" does not appear to be a recognized legal term. The source material attributed to this headword in Bouvier's Law Dictionary is, upon examination, an entry for ENTIRE — covering entire days, entire use and benefit in trust deeds, and entire tenancy — not a term "ible" in its own right. The text appears to be a fragment or indexing artifact, likely the tail end of a preceding entry running into truncated material, rather than a discrete legal term with independent meaning.
No established legal definition, doctrine, or term of art corresponds to "ible" in Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Black's Law Dictionary, or any recognized authority in the Law Mind corpus.
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Why It Matters in Research
Researchers encountering "ible" as a headword or index entry in a digitized or transcribed version of Bouvier's Law Dictionary should treat it as a transcription or OCR artifact. Historical law dictionaries were typeset in dense columnar formats, and optical character recognition or manual transcription errors frequently produce phantom headwords from suffixes, page fragments, or broken column text. The content actually present under this headword — concerning entire days, entire use and benefit, and entire tenancy — belongs to the entry for ENTIRE.
If you are tracing research on any of those substantive concepts, redirect as follows: the rule that an entire day runs midnight to midnight was a point of recurring litigation in limitations and notice contexts; the construction of "entire use and benefit" as equivalent to "sole and separate use" in married women's trust deeds was significant in pre-Married Women's Property Acts equity practice; and entire tenancy as a form of sole possession contrasted with joint or co-tenancy is foundational to concurrent estates doctrine.
Do not build a research chain on this headword. There is no legal concept here to trace.
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Historical Dictionary Support
Bouvier's Law Dictionary contains no substantive entry for "ible." The text present under this headword is a fragment of the ENTIRE entry, ending mid-sentence with "joint or co—," confirming truncation. Bouvier addresses entire tenancy under ENTIRE and related concepts under TENANCY. No other historical law dictionary in standard use — including Black's, Burrill's, Tomlin's, or Wharton's — carries an entry for "ible" as a term of law.
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