Category: U

Usage is a reasonable and lawful public custom concerning transactions of the same nature as those which are to be effected thereby, existing at the place where the obligation is to be

Torts. The unlawful assumption of the use of property which bell longs to another; au interruption or the disturbing a mau in his right and possession. Tomlins. In public law. The unlawful

Lat. In the civil law. Useful; beneficial; equitable; available. Actio utilis, an equitable action. Calvin. Dies utilis, an available day.

Ubi non est principalis, non potest esse accessorins. 4 Coke, 43. Where there is no principal, there cannot be an accessory. Ubi nulla est conjectura quae ducat alio, verba intelligenda sunt ex

Lat. With one voice; unanimously; without dissent.

A term sometimes applied to one who is obliged to make his own defense when on trial, or in a civil cause. A cause is said to be undefended when the defendant

In regard to the making of a will and other such matters, undue influence is persuasion carried to the point of overpowering the will, or such a control over the person in

Having relation to the whole or an entirety; pertaining to all without exception; a term more extensive than “general,” which latter may admit of exceptions. See Blair v. Howell, 6S Iowa, 619,

See LAND.

In mercantile law. The common period fixed by the usage or custom or habit of dealing between the country where a bill is drawn, and that where it is payable, for the

One who assumes the right of government by force, contrary to and in J violation of the constitution of the country.

In old English law. An outlawed person; an outlaw. Utlagatus est qnasi extra legem posi- tus. Caput gerit lupinum. 7 Coke, 14. An outlaw is, as it were, put out of the

Omnipresence; presence in several places, or in all places, at one time. A fiction of English law is the “legal ubiquity” of the sovereign, by which he is con- structively present in

Incapable of being aliened, that is, sold and transferred.

Words frequently used in conveyances of land which is subject to a mortgage, to show that the grantee takes subject to such mortgage. See Walker v. I’hysick. 5 Pa. 203; Moore’s Appeal,

A term which may be applied generally to all dishonest or fraudulent rivalry in trade and commerce, but is particularly applied in the courts of equity (where it may be restrained by

An institution of higher learning, consisting of an assemblage of col- leges united under one corporate organization and government, affording instruction in the arts and sciences and the learned professions. and conferring

See SEAWORTHY.

L. Fr. In old practice. The pursuing or bringing an action. Cowell.

In old English law. Interest of money; increase for the loan of money ; a reward for the use of money. 2 111. y Comm. 404. In modern law. Unlawful interest; a