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In Scotch criminal procedure, an accused person, in appearing to take his trial, is said “to compear and underlie the law.” Mozley & Whitley.

The state of being the only begotten. UNILATERAL 1186 UNIUSCUJUSQUE CONTRACTUS

See CHANCELLOR’S COURTS IN THE Two UNIVERSITIES.

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

In Insurance. An invasion from abroad, or an internal rebellion, where armies are drawn up against each other, when the laws are silent, and C when the firing of towns becomes unavoida-

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

Lat. The extreme punishment; the extremity of punishment ; the punishment of death. 4 Bl. Comm. 17. Ultimum supplicium esse mortem so- lam interpretamur. The extremest punishment we consider to be death

e. Calvin. UNCLE. The brother of one’s father or mother. State v. Reedy, 44 Kan. 100, 24 Pac. 06; State v. Guiton, 51 La. Ann. 155, 24 South. 784.

In the law of contracts. This is a loose and ambiguous term, unless it be accompanied by some expression to show that it constituted a meeting of the minds of parties upon

One-sided; ex parte; having relation to only one of two or more persons or things.

Lat. The whole; all together. Calvin.

See SEAWORTHY.

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

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

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

Lat. The last or remote heir; the lord. So called iu contra- distinction to the /tares proximus and the hceres remotior. Dalr. Feud. Prop. 110.

A contract which no man in his senses, not under delusion, would make, on the one hand, and which no fair and honest man would accept on the other. Ilume v. U.

The phrase “it is understood,” when employed as a word of contract in a written agreement, has the same force as the words “it is agreed.” lliggiu- son v. Weld, 14 Gray

That which cannot be understood.