In Louisiana. In every tutorship there shall be an uiuler- tutor, whom it shall lie the duty of the judge to appoint at the time letters of tutorship are certified for the

He who transacted the business of the lord high treasurer.

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

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

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

A promise, engagement, or stipulation. Each of the promises made by the parties to a contract, considered independently and not as mutual, may, in this sense, be denominated an “undertaking.” “Undertaking” is

Agreed; assumed. Tills is the technical word to be used in alleging the promise which forms the basis of an action of assumpsit.

The person who Insures another in a fire or life policy; the insurer. See Childs v. Firemen’s Ins. Co., 0(3 Minn. 303, 09 N. W. 141, 35 L. R. A. 99. A

An undivided right or title, or a title to an undivided portion of an estate, is that owned by one of two or more tenants in common or joint tenants before partition.

In old English law. Minors or persons under age not capable of bearing arms. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 9; Cowell.

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

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

In Saxon law. An outlaw; a person whose murder required no composition to be made, or tocregcld to be paid, by his slayer.

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.

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

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.

The English statute of 2 Wm. IV. c. 39, establishing a uniform process for the com- mencement of actions in all the courts of law at Westminster. 3 Steph. Comm. 566.

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

That which cannot be understood.

Lat. In canon law. A consolidation of two churches into one. Cowell.