Category: U

An officer who acts directly under the sheriff, and performs all the duties of the sheriff’s office, a few only excepted where the personal presence of the high-sheriff is necessary. The sheriff

In taxation. Uniformity In taxation implies equality in the burden of taxation, which cannot exist without uniformity in the mode of assessment, as well as in the rate of taxation. Further, the

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

A prodigal; a spendthrift 1 Bl. Comm. 306.

Lat. Up to; until. This is a word of exclusion, and a release of all demands usque ad a certain day does not cover a bond made on that day. 2 Mod.

Lat. As guests. 1 Salk. 25, pi. 10. Ut poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes perveniat. That the punishment may reach a few, but the fear of it affect all. A maxim

Both of us. Words used formerly in bonds.

L. Lilt. In old English law. The Iron ell; the standard ell of Iron, kept in the exchequer for the rule of measure.

In Saxon law. An oath by relations not to avenge a relation’s death. Blount.

A tenant under one who is himself a tenant; one who liokls by under-lease.

which regulates the terms of membership in the Church of England and the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, (St. 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 4.) See St. 9 & 10 Vict.

Sax. An unjust law.

This term generally excludes the day to which it relates; but It will be con- strued otherwise, if required by the evident intention of the parties. Kendall v. Klngs-

Up to the middle of the stream or road.

In old English practice. Octave; the octave; the eighth day following any term or feast. Cowell.

To put or seud into circulation ; to publish or put forth. To utter and publish an instrument is to declare or assert, directly or indirectly, by words or actions, that it

Alnage, (which see.)

Such vagueness, obscurity, or confusion in any written instrument, e. g., a will, as to render It unintelligible to those who are called upon to execute or interpret it, so that no

In Louisiana. In every tutorship there shall be an uiuler- tutor, whom it shall lie the duty of the judge to appoint at the time letters of tutorship are certified for the

The English statute of 2 Wm. IV. c. 39, establishing a uniform process for the com- mencement of actions in all the courts of law at Westminster. 3 Steph. Comm. 566.