Category: U

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

A person of unsound mind is an adult who from infirmity of mind is incapable of managing himself or his affairs. The term, therefore, includes insane persons, idiots, and imbeciles. Sweet. See

In Spanish law. Usage; that which arises from certain things which men say and do and practice uninterruptedly for a great length of time, without any hindrance whatever. Las Partidas, pt. 1,

Lat In Boman 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.

In the civil law. The name of a species of interdict for retaining a thing, granted for the purpose of protecting the possession of a movable thing, as the uti possidetis was

In commercial law. The amount wanting wheu a cask, on being gauged, is found not to be completely full.

Not necessarily an accident which it was physically impossible, in the nature of things, for the person to have prevented, but one not occasioned in any degree, either remotely or directly, by

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-