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TYHTLAN

In Saxon law. An accusation, impeachment, or charge of any offense.

TYLWITH

Brit. A tribe or family branching or issuing out of another. Cowell.

TYMBRELLA

In old English law, a tumbrel, castigatory, or ducking stool, anciently used as an instrument of punishment for common scolds.

TYRANNY

Arbitrary or despotic government; the severe and autocratic exercise of sovereign power, either vested constitutionally in one ruler, or usurped by him by breaking down the division and distribution of governmental powers.

TYRANT

A despot; a sovereign or ruler, legitimate or otherwise, who uses his power unjustly and arbitrarily, to tlie oppression of liis subjects.

TYROTOXICON

In medical jurisprudence. A poisonous ptomaine produced in milk, cheese, cream, or ice-cream by decomposition of albuminous constituents.

TWELVE-MONTH,

in the singular num-TYTHE. Tithe, or tenth part ber, includes all the year; but tivclio months are to be computed according to twenty-TYTHING. A company of ten; a dis- eight days for

TWICE IN JEOPARDY

See JEOP- TZAR, TZARINA. The emperor and ARDY; ONCE IN JEOPARDY. empress of Russia. See CZAB. U. B. 1181 UBI NON EST MANIFESTA u U. B. An abbreviation for “Upper Bench.” U.

UBERRIMA FIDES

Lat. The most abundant good faith; absolute and perfect candor or openness and honesty; the absence of any concealment or deception, however slight. Ubi aliquid conceditur, conceditur et id sine quo res

UBI NON EST PRINCIPALIS 1182 ULTRA

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

UBIQUITY

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

UDAL

A term mentioned by Blackstone as used in Finland to denote that kind of right in real property which is called, in English law, “allodial.” 2 Bl. Comm. 45, note f.

UKAAS, UKASE

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

ULLAGE

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

ULNA FERREA

L. Lilt. In old English law. The Iron ell; the standard ell of Iron, kept in the exchequer for the rule of measure.

ULTIMA RATIO

Lat. The last argument ; the last resort; the means last to be resorted to. Ultima voluntas testatoris est perim- plenda secundum veram intentionem suam. Co. Litt. 322. The last will of

ULTIMATE FACTS

In pleading and practice. Facts in issue; opposed to probative or evidential facts, the latter being such as serve to establish or disprove the issues. Kahn v. Central Smelting Co., 2 Utah,

ULTIMATUM

Lat. The last. The final and ultimate proposition made in negotiating a treaty, or a contract, or the like.

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