an excuse for the commission of an act otherwise criminal, this term means an impulse towards its commission of such fixity and intensity that it cannot be resisted by the person subject to it, in the enfeebled condition...
- UNCORE PRIST. L. Fr. Still ready. A species of plea or replication by which the party alleges that he is still ready to pay or
Lat. In old English law. The name of the writ of dower, which lay for a widow, where no dower at all had been assigned her within the time Hmited by law. 3 Bl. Comm. 183.
EXCHEQUER. ‘Two officers who cleaved the tallies written by the clerk of the tallies, and read the same, that the clerk of the pell and comptrollers thereof might see their entries were true. They also made searches fo...
He who transacted the business of the Jord high treagurer.
a special occasion or purpose, while the former discharges, in general, all the duties _e by the sheriff's office.
“UNDIVIDED. An undivided’ right or title, or a title to an undivided portion of an estate, is that owned by one of two or more tenants in common or joint tenants before partition.
1002, 41 L. Ed. 118; Dennison Mig. Co.“v.
UNILATERAL. One-sided; ex parte; having relation to only one of two or more persons or things.
Lat. In canon law. A consolidation of two churches into one. Cowell.
Lat. Uniting of offspring. A method of adoption, chiefly used in Germany, by which step-children (on either or both sides of the house) are made equal, in respect to the right of succession, with the children who spring ...
v. Cornett, 112 Ky. 677, 66 8. W. 728.
v. Buffalo County Com’rs, 9 Neb. 449, 4 N. W. 53; Brooke v. Philadelphia, 162 Pa. 123, 29 Atl. 387, 24 L. R. A. 781. —General fund. This phrase, in New York, is a collective designation of all the assets of the state...
76, 5 N. W. 482. And see Kripp vy. Curtis, 71 Cal. 62, 11 Pac. 879;
38, 22 L. Ed. 779; In re
Lat. The unity of persons, as that between husband and wife, or ancestor and heir.
Each circuit court of the United States may appoint, in different parts of the district for which it is held, as many discreet persons as it may deen) necessary, who shall be called “commissioners of the circuit court,...
UNIVERSAL. MHaving relation to the whole or an entirety; pertaining to all without exception; a term more extensive than “general,” which latter may admit of exceptions. See Blair vy. Howell, 68 Iowa, 619, 28 N. W. 1...
Lat. In the civil law.
Lat. The whole;. all to gether. Calvin.
UNLAW. In Scotch law. A witness was
UNLIQUIDATED. Not ascertained in amount; not determined; remaining unassessed or unsettled; as unliquidated damages. See DAMAGES.
Lat. In a single act; by one and the same act.
Lat. In one breath. 8 Man. & G. 45. Uno flatu, et uno intuttu, at one breath, and in one view. Pope v.
law. An oath by relations not to avenge a relation’s death. Blount.
Lat. In Roman law. An ounce; the twelfth of the Roman “as,” or pound. The twelfth part of anything; the proportion of onetwelfth, 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note m.
Lat. In Roman law. An heir to one-twelfth of an estate or inheritance. Calvin.
UNSOLEMN WAR. War denounced without a declaration; war made not upon general but special declaration; imperfect war. People v. McLeod, ] Hill (N. Y.) 409, 87 Am. Dec. 328.
Unumquodgque dissolvitur eodem ligamine quo ligatur. Every obligation is dissolved by the same solemnity with which it is created. Broom, Max. 884.
UPSET PRICE. In sales by auctions, an amount for which property to be sold is put up, so that the first bidder at that price is declared the buyer. Wharton.
Lat. In Roman law. A city, or a walled town. Sometimes it is put for civitas, and denotes the inhabitants, or both the city and its inhabitants; 4. e., the municipality or commonwealth. By way of special pre-eminence, wu...
L. Fr. Effect; practice. Mis en
75.—Actio commodati directa. An action by a lender against a borrower, the principal object of which is to obtain a restitution of the thing lent. Poth. Prét &A Usage, nn. 65, 68.—Actio communi dividundo. An action ...
certain, uniform, reasonable, and not contrary to law. Lowry v. Read, 3 Brewst. (Pa.) 452. “Usage” is also called a “custom,” though the latter word has also another signification; it is a long and uniform practi...
in marriage settlements, the first use is always to the owner in fee till the marriage, and then to other uses. The fee remains with the owner until the marriage, and then it shifts as uses arise. 4 Kent, Comm. 297.—8 ...
gentleman usher of the black rod is an officer of the house of lords appointed by let-
Lat. Up to; until. This is a word of exclusion, and a release of all de mands wsque ad-a certain day does not cover a bond made on that day. 2 Mod. 28.
Up to the middle of the stream or road.
Lat. In the civil law. ey given for the use of money; Commonly .used in the plural,
per annum; that is, a hundredth part of the principal was due each month,—the month being the unit of time from which the Romans reckoned interest. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note.
which is vested in another, and to draw from the same all the profit, utility, and advantage which it may produce, provided it be without altering the substance of the thing.
' USURPATIO. Lat. In the civil law. The interruption of a usucaption, by some act on the part of the real owner. Calvin.
Lat. In Roman law. A precartous enjoyment of land, corresponding with the right of habditetio of houses, and being closely analogous to the tenancy at sufferance or at wilt of English law. The usuarius (i. c€., tenant ...
Lat. In international law. Warlike uses or objects. It is the usus bellict which determine an article to be contraband. 1 Kent, Comm. 141.
Lat. In Roman law. Usufruct; usufructuary right or possession. The temporary right of using a thing, without having the ultimate property, or full dominion, of the substance. 2 Bl. Comm. 327.
Lat. As it was wont to run; applied to a water-course.
552; U. 8. v. Sykes (D. C.) 58 Fed. 1000; Sun Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ocean Ins.
200. —Prisoner at the bar. An accused person, while on trial before the court, is so called. Prisoner of war. One who has been captured jn war while fighting in the army of the public enemy.
a friend to share the produce. It was scarce ly permitted to him (Justinian says) to have even his wife with him on the land; and he could not let or sell, the right being strictly personal to himself. Brown. fat. Both;...
opinions that this word doth aptly signify