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| UBERRIMA FIDES | | Perfect good faith; abundant good faith.
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| UKAAS, or UKASE | | The name of a law or ordinance emanating from the czar ... |
| ULLAGE, | | com. law. When a cask is gauged, what it wants ... |
| ULTIMATUM | | The last proposition made in making a contract, a treaty, and ... |
| ULTIMUM SUPPLICIUM | | The last or extreme punishment; the penalty of death.
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| ULTIMUS HAERES | | The last or remote heir; the lord. So called in contra-dis-tinction ... |
| UMPIRAGE | | The decision of an umpire. This word is used for ... |
| UMPIRE | | A person selected by two or more arbitrators. When they are ... |
| UNA VOCE | | With one voice unanimously.
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| UNALIENABLE | | . The state of a thing or right which cannot ... |
| UNANIMITY | | The agreement of all the persons concerned in a thing in ... |
| UNCERTAINTY | | That which is unknown or vague. Vide Certainty.
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| UNCONDITIONAL | | That which is without condition; that which must be performed without ... |
| UNCONDITIONAL CONTRACT, | | contracts. One which does not depend upon any condition whatever. 1 ... |
| UNCONSCIONABLE BARGAIN, | | contracts. A contract which no man in his senses, not under ... |
| UNCONSTITUTIONAL | | That which is contrary to the constitution.
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| UNCORE PRIT, | | pleading. This barbarous phrase of old French, which is the same ... |
| UNDE NIHIL HABET | | Of which she has nothing. When no dower had been assigned ... |
| UNDER-SHERIFF | | A deputy of a sheriff. The principal is called high-sheriff, and ... |
| UNDER-TENANT | | One who holds by virtue of an underlease. (q. v.) See ... |
| UNDER-TUTOR, | | law of Louisiana. In every tutorship, there shall be an undertutor, ... |
| UNDERLEASE, | | contracts. An alienation by a tenant of a part of his ... |
| UNDERTAKING, | | contracts. An engagement by one of the parties to a contract ... |
| UNDERTOOK | | Assumed; promised.
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| UNDERWRITER, | | insurances. One who signs a policy of insurance, by which he ... |
| UNDIVIDED | | That which is held by the same title by two ... |
| UNICA TAXATIO, | | practice. The ancient language of a special award of venire, where ... |
| UNILATERAL CONTRACT, | | civil law. When the party to whom an engagement is made, ... |
| UNINTELLIGIBLE | | That which cannot be understood.
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| UNIO PROLIUM | | . A species of adoption used among the Germans; it signifies ... |
| UNION | | By this word is understood the United States of America; as, ... |
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | | The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in ... |
| UNITY OF POSSESSION | | This term is used to designate the possession by one person ... |
| UNITY, | | estates. An agreement or coincidence of certain qualities in the title ... |
| UNIVERSAL LEGACY | | A term used among civilians. An universal legacy is a testamentary ... |
| UNIVERSAL PARTNERSHIP | | The name of a specie's of partnership by which all the ... |
| UNIVERSITY | | The name given to certain societies or corporations which are seminaries ... |
| UNJUST | | That which is done against the perfect rights of another; that ... |
| UNKNOWN | | When goods have been stolen from some person unknown, they may ... |
| UNLAWFUL | | That which is contrary to law.
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| UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY, | | crim. law. A disturbance of the public peace by three or ... |
| UNLAWFULLY, | | pleadings. This word is frequently used in indictments in the description ... |
| UNLIQUIDATED DAMAGES | | Such damages, as are unascertained. In general such damages cannot be ... |
| UNSOUND MIND; UNSOUND MEMORY | | These words have been adopted in several statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately ... |
| UNSOUNDNESS | | Vide Crib-biting; Roaring; Soundness.
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| UNWHOLESOME FOOD | | Food not fit to be eaten; food which, if eaten, would ... |
| UPLIFTED HAND | | . When a man accused of a crime is arraigned, ... |
| URBAN | | Relating to a city; but in a more general sense ... |
| USAGE | | Long and uniform practice. In its most extensive meaning this term ... |
| USANCE, | | commercial law. The term usance comes from usage, and signifies the ... |
| USE, | | estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of ... |
| USE, | | civil law. A right of receiving so much of the ... |
| USEFUL | | That which may be put into beneficial practice.
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| USHER | | This word is said to be derived from a huissier, ... |
| USUCAPTION, | | civil law. The manner of acquiring property in things by the ... |
| USUFRUCT, | | civil law. The right of enjoying a thing, the property of ... |
| USUFRUCTUARY, | | civil law. One who has the right and enjoyment of an ... |
| USURPATION, | | torts. The unlawful assumption of the use of property which belongs ... |
| USURPATION, | | government. The tyrannical assumption of the government by force contrary to ... |
| USURPED POWER, | | insurance. By an article of the printed proposals which are considered ... |
| USURPER | | government. One who assumes the right of government by force, contrary ... |
| USURY, | | contracts. The illegal profit which is required and received by the ... |
| UTERINE BROTHER, | | domestic relations. A brother by the mother's side.
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| UTI POSSIDETIS | | This phrase, which means as you possess, is used in international ... |
| UTTER BARRISTER, | | English law, Those barristers who plead without the bar, and are ... |
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