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Lat. The whole; all together. Calvin.

War denounced without a declaration; war made not upon general but special declaration; imperfect war. People v. McLeod, 1 Hill (N. T.) 409, 37 Am. Dec. 328.

This word Is said to be derived from “huissier,” and is the name of a subor- dinate officer in some English courts of law. Archb. Pr. 25. USHER OF THE BLACK ROD.

Lat In Roman law. A precarious enjoyment of land, corresponding with the right of habitatio of houses, and being closely analogous to the tenancy at sufferance or at will of English law.

An escape of a felon out of prison.

The name of a law or ordinance made by the czar of Russia.

Payment in gross, on an estimate as to amount, and where the merchant, on a final liquidation, will be entitled by law to allowances or de- ductions which do not depend on

In conveyancing. A lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds. If a deed passes all the

A statute is general and uniform in its operation when it operates equally upon all persons who are brought within the relations and circumstances provided for. McAunich v. Mississippi & M. R.

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.