Category: U

In English” law. A writ directed to the sheriff, (either generally, when any man Is imprisoned for abailable offense and bail has been refused, or specially, when the offense or causeof commitment

Lat Beyond; outside of; in excess of. Damages ultra, damages beyond a sum paid into court.

As 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

Agreed; assumed. Tills is the technical word to be used in alleging the promise which forms the basis of an action of assumpsit.

Lat. The unity of persons, as that between husband and wife, or ancestor and heir.

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

City servitudes, or servitudes of houses, are called “urban.” They are the easements appertaining to the building and construction of houses; as, for instance, the right to light and air, or the

Lat. In the civil law. Money given for the use of money; interest. Commonly used in the plural, “usurce” Dig. 22, 1.

Lat. In the civil law. A species of interdict for tlie purpose of retaining possession of a thing, granted to one who, at the time of contesting suit, was in possession of

In Scotch law. A volunteer witness; one who appears to give evidence without being called upon. 2 Alis. Crim. Pr. 303.

L. Fr. Still ready. A species of plea or replication by wliicb the party alleges that he is still ready to pay or perform all that is justly demanded of him. In

The person who Insures another in a fire or life policy; the insurer. See Childs v. Firemen’s Ins. Co., 0(3 Minn. 303, 09 N. W. 141, 35 L. R. A. 99. A

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

Lat. In one breath. 3 .Alan. & G. 45. Vno flatu, ct uno intuitu, at one breath, and in one view. Pope v. Nickerson, 3 Story, 504, Fed. Cas. No. 11,274.

Lat. In Roman law. A city, or a walled town. Sometimes It is put for civilas, and denotes the inhabitants, or both tlie city and its inhabitants; i. e

In old English law. A usurer. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 52,

Lat. In Roman law. The form of words by which a vote in favor of a proposed law was orally expressed. Uti royas, nolo rel jubeo, as you ask, I will or

The decision of an umpire. The word “umpirage,” in reference to an umpire, is the same as the word “award,” in reference to arbitrators; but “award” is commonly applied to the decision

In Saxon law. Unknown; a stranger. A person entertained in the house of another was, on the first night of his entertainment, so called. Bract, fol. 1246.

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.