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.

Lat. Uuiting of offspring. A method of adoption, chiefly used in Germany, by which step-children (on either or both sides of the house) are made equal, in respect to the right of

In English poor-law. A union consists of two or more parishes which have been consolidated for the better administration of the poor-law therein. In ecclesiastical law. A union consists of two or

Lat. The unity of persons, as that between husband and wife, or ancestor and heir.

Obligations for payment of money which have been at various times issued by the government of the United States.

Each circuit court of the United States may appoint, in different parts of the district for which it is held, as many discreet persons as it may deem necessary, who shall be

In the law of estates. The peculiar characteristic of an estate held by several in joint tenancy, and which is fourfold, viz., unity of interest, unity of title, unity of time, and

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,

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

Lat. The whole; all together. Calvin.

Contrary to right and justice, or to the enjoyment of his rights by another, or to the standards of conduct furnished by the laws.

Unknown. The law French form of the Saxon “uncouth.” Britt. c. 12.

Sax. An unjust law.