Inspection of documents, or of records. Refers to the right of a party to a suit to inspect and take copies of writings or records, in the possession of his opponent or of a public officer, which are material to the maintenance of his case. In civil practice, independently of the old doctrine of profert and oyer, a rule may be granted to compel the production and permit the copying of such papers as are essential to the maintenance of a contested right. But surrender of the documents will not be ordered. The doctrine applies to public, corporation, and private documents, in which the petitioner has an interest, and which are not of an incriminating nature. Previous demand must have been made, and the documents must be under respondent's exclusive control.1 See DISCOVERY, 6, Bill of; PRODUCE, 2; RECORD, Nul tiel. Inspection of the person. In an action for damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff may be required by the court, upon application, to submit his person to an examination for the purpose of ascertaining the character and extent of his injuries. The courts have held in divorce cases, that an examination may be ordered of a defendant alleged to be impotent.2 Trial by inspection. When, for the greater expedition of a cause, in some point or issue the object of the senses, the judge, upon the testimony of his own sense, decides the point in dispute.3 When the fact, from its nature, must be evident to the court either from ocular demonstration or other irrefragable proof, there the law departs from its usual custom, the verdict of twelve men, and relies upon the judgment of the court alone; as, in allegations of non-age, that plaintiff is dead when one calling himself plaintiff appears, that a man is an idiot; and in references to the almanac. But in all these cases, the judges, if they conceive a doubt, may order it to be tried by jury.3 Inspection is to be regarded rather as a means of dispensing with evidence than as evidence itself. That which the court or jury sees need not be proved. It is valuable as an ingredient of circumstantial evidence. A common illustration is where juries are taken to view the scene where the events of litigation occurred. All materials and objects in any way part of the res gestæ may be produced at the trial of 11 Whart. Ev. §§ 742-56, cases; 1 Greenl. Ev. §§ 471-78, 559-62, cases; Brewer v. Watson, 71 Ala. 304-6 (1882), cases; Commonwealth, ex rel. Sellers v. Phoenix Iron Co., 105 Pa. 115-19 (1884), cases; 23 Am. Law Reg. 395400 (1884), cases; 22 Cent. Law J. 341 (1886), cases. 2 See generally Schroeder v. Chicago, &c. R. Co., 47 Iowa, 376-83 (1877); Atchison, &c. R. Co. v. Thul, 29 Kan. 466, 474 (1883); 19 Cent. Law J. 144-48 (1884), cases; 2 Bish. M. & D. § 590, cases. 33 Bl. Com. 332-33. the case. But inspection alone is not relied upon when more exact proof can be produced.1 3. Supervision; trusteeship. Deed of inspectorship. An assignment by a debtor of his property, by which he is allowed to manage the property for a specified time, under the inspection of certain individuals, appointed by the body of the creditors, whose duty is to see that the property is disposed of in the manner most conducive to the interests of the creditors.2 See COMPOSITION: LIQUIDATOR. L. Like; resembling; equivalent to. Instar omnium. Representative of all. Money is said to be instar omnium as to values; one act, as to the purpose of all acts; 10 and one case, as to the reasoning in all cases of its class. 11 11 Whart. Ev. §§ 345-47, cases; 25 Law J. 3-7 (1887), cases. 2 [4 South. Law Rev. 639 (1878), cases. 3 Spelled, also, instalment. 4 Pelton v. Bemis, 44 Ohio St. 57 (1886); Ryall v. Prince, 82 Ala. 266 (1886). * Cushman v. Jewell, 7 Hun, 525 (1876); Smith v. Newland, 9 id. 553 (1877); 89 111. 233; 20 Kan. 137; 27 Mich. 209, 463; 33 id. 94; 41 N. Y. 155; 70 id. 466; 13 Rep. 511. 3 Chitty, Bl. Com. 287. 7 See 3 Kent, 355, 378; 18 Johns. 292. • Moffat v. Dickson, 3 Col. 315 (1877). 91 Bl. Com. 266; 2 id. 466; 3 id. 231. 10 4 Bl. Com. 155. 11 4 W. N. C. (Pa.) 500. E