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  • UBERRIMA FIDES
    (Latin) The most abundant good faith; absolute and perfect candor or openness and honesty; the absence of any concealment or deception, however slight i Ubi aliquid oonoeditur, eoneeditur et id sine quo res ipsa esse son potest. When anything is granted, that also is granted without which the thing granted More...
  • UBI RE VERA
    Where in reality; when in truth or in point of fact Cro. Eliz. 645 ; Cro. Jac. 4. Ub! verba oonjuncta non sunt suffloit alterutrum esse factum. Dig. 50, 17, 110, 3. Where words are not conjoined, it is enough if one or other be complied with.
  • 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 all the courts. 1 BL Comm. 270.
  • 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.
  • UKAAS, UKASE
    The name of a law or ordinance made by the czar of Russia.
  • ULLAGE
    In commercial law. The amount wanting when a cask, on being gauged, is found not to be completely full.
  • ULNA FERREA
    L. Lat In old English law. The iron ell; the standard ell of iron, kept in the exchequer for the rule of measure.
  • ULNAGE
    Alnage, (which see.)
  • 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 Co. Litt 322. The last will of a testator is to be fulfilled according to his true intention.
  • 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, 37ft. And see FACT.
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