Unques Prist

L. Fr. Always ready. Cowell. Another form of tout temps prist

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Uno Actu

Lat. In a single act; by one and the same act

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Uno Flatu

Lat. In one breath. 3 Man. de G. 45. Dno fiatu, et uno intuitu, at one breath, and in one view. Pope v. Nickerson, 3 Story, 504, Fed. Cas. No. 11,274

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Unltvery

A term used in maritime law to designate the unloading of cargo of a vessel at the place where it is properly to be delivered. The Two Catharines, 24 Fed. Cas. 429

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Unnatural Offense

The infa-mous crime against nature; i. e., sodomy or buggery

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Unlawfully

The term is commonly used in indictments for statutory crimes, to show that the act constituting the offense was in violation of a positive law, especially where the statute itself uses tbe same phrase

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Unliquidated

Not ascertained in amount; not determined; remaining unassessed or unsettled; as unliquidated dam-ages. See Damages

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Unlaw

In Scotch law. A witness was . formerly inadmissible who was not worth the king's unlaw; i. e., the sum of £10 Soots, then the common fine for absence from court and for small delinquencies. Bell

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Unlawful

That which is contrary to law

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Unlage

Sax. An unjust law

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Unlarich

In old Scotch law. That which is done without law or against law. Spelman

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Unjust

Contrary to right and justice, or to the enjoyment of hls rights by another, or to the standards of conduct furnished by the laws

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Unkouth

Unknown. The law French form of the Saxon “uncouth.” Brltt. c. 12

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University Court

See Chancellor's Courts in the Two Universities

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Universus

Laf. The whole; all to-gefher. Calvln

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Universitas

Lat. In the clvll law. A corporation aggregate. Dig. 3, 4, 7. Lit-erally, a whole formed out of many Individuals. 1 Bl. Comm. 469

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University

An institution of higher learning, consisting of an assemblage of col-leges unlted under one cort»orste orgnnlza-tlon and government, affording lnstructlon in the arts and sclences and the learned pro-fessions. and conferring degrees. See Com. v. Banks, 198 Pa. 397, 48 Atl. 277

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Unity

In the law of estates. The pe-culiar characteristic of an estate held by several in Joint tenancy, and which , is fourfold, viz., unity of Interest, unity of title, unity of time, and unity of possession. In other words, joint tenants have one and the same interest, accruing by one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undlvld-ed possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 180

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Universal

Having relation to the whole or an entirety; pertaining to all with-out exception; a term more extensive than “general,” which latter may admit of ex-ceptions. See Blair v. Howell, 68 Iowa, 619, 28 N. W. 199; Koen v. State, 35 Neb. 676, 53 N. W. 595. 17 L. R. A. 821

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United States Commissioners

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 deem necessary, who shall be calI-ed “commissioners of the circuit court,” and shall exercise the powers which are or may be conferred upon them. Rev. St. U. S. I 627 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 499).

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United States Notes

Promissory notes, resembling bank-notes, issued by the government of tbe United States

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Unitas Personarum

LaL The

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United States Bonds

obligations for payment of money which have been at various times Issued by .the government of the United States

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Union-Jack

The national flag of Great Britain and Ireland, which combines the banner of St. Patrick with the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew. The word “jack” is most probably derived from the surcoat, charged with a red cross, anciently used by the English soldiery. This appears to have beeu called a “Jacque,” whence the word “Jacket,” anciently written “Jacqult.” Some, however, without a shadow of evl-dence, derive the word from "Jacques” the first alteration having been made in the reign of King James I. wharton

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Union Of Churches

A combining and consolidating of two churches into one. Also it is when one church is made subject, to another, and one man is rector of both; and where a conventual church is made a cathedral. Tomlins

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