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What is an inurement?

What is an inurement? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Custom, habituation; normal practice.
  2. Benefit.
  3. (law) In patent law, the doctrine that the work done by a person hired by an inventor to test a conception supports the right of that inventor to the resulting invention.
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This may apparently be explained as being based on inurement.
Children, on account of their high natural warmth, are the proper subjects for inurement to cold.
The basic prohibition against inurement is found in the Code and is further refined in related regulations.
They now appeared to have developed inurement, so they needed more time before they became drunk and more time to shake off their hangover: 28 minutes.
However, flies with a defective hangover gene did not develop inurement and continued each time to require 20 minutes to become 'sober' again.
Any amount of inurement, no matter how small, can jeopardize an organization's tax-exempt status.

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