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  • UNCIA
    Lat. In Roman law. An ounce; the twelfth of the Roman "as," or pound The twelfth part of anything; the proportion of one-twelfth. 2 Bl. Comm. 462, note tn.
  • UNCIA AGRI, UNCIA TERRAE
    These phrases often occur in the charters of the British kings, and signify some measure or quantity of land It is said to have been the quantity of twelve modii; each modius being possibly one hundred feet square. Jacob.
  • UNCIARIUS HAERES
    Lat In Roman law. An heir to one-twelfth of an estate or inheritance. Calvin.
  • UNCLE
    The brother of one's father or mother. State v. Reedy, 44 Kan. 190, 24 Pac. 66; State v. Guiton, 51 La. Ann. 155, 24 South. 784.
  • UNCONSCIONABLE BARGAIN
    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. Hume v. U. S., 132 U. S. 406, 10 Sup. Ct 134, 83 L. Ed. 393.
  • UNCONSTITUTIONAL
    That which is contrary to the constitution. The opposite of "constitutional." See State v. McCann, 4 Lea (Tenn.) 10; in re Rahrer (C. C.) 43 Fed. 558, 10 L. R. A. 444; Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U. S. 425, 6 S. Ct 1121, 30 L. Ed. 178.
  • UNCONTROLLABLE IMPULSE
    As an excuse for the commission of an act otherwise criminal, this term means an impulse towards its commission of such fixity and intensity that it cannot be resisted by the person subject to it, in the enfeebled condition of his will and moral sense re-sulting from derangement or mania. More...
  • UNCORE PRIST
    L. Fr. Still ready. A species of plea or replication by which the party alleges that he is still ready to pay or perform all that is Justly demanded of him. In conjunction with the phrase "tout temps prists" it signifies that he has always been, and still is ready.
  • UNCUTH
    In Saxon law. Unknown; a stranger. A person entertained in the house of another was, on the flrst night of his entertainment, so called. Bract, fol. 124b.
  • UNDE NIHIL HABET
    Latin. In old English law. The name of the writ of dower, which lay for a widow, where no dower at all had been assigned her within the time limited by law. 3 Bl. Comm. 183.
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