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  • UNDEFENDED
    A term sometimes applied to one who is obliged to make his own defense when on trial, or in a civil cause. A cause is said to be undefended when the defendant makes default, In not putting in an appearance to the plaintiff's action; In not putting in his statement More...
  • UNDER AND SUBJECT
    Words frequently used in conveyances of land which is subject to a mortgage, to show that the grantee takes subject to such mortgage. See Walker v. Physick, 5 Pa. 203; Moore's Appeal, 88 Pa. 453, 32 Am. Rep. 400; Blood v. Crew Llvick Co., 171 Ta. 328, 33 Atl. 344; More...
  • UNDER-CHAMBERLAINS OF THE EXCHEQUER
    Two officers who cleaved the tallies written by the clerk of the tallies, and read the same, that the clerk of the pell and comptrollers thereof might see their entries were true. They also made searches for records in the treasury, and had the custody of Domesday Book. Cowell. The More...
  • UNDER-LEASE
    In conveyancing. A lease granted by one who is himself a lessee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds. If a deed passes all the estate or time of the termor, it is an assignment; but, if it be for less portion of More...
  • UNDER-SHERIFF
    An officer who acts directly under the sheriff, and perforins all the duties of the sheriff's office, a few only excepted where the personal presence of the high-sheriff is necessary. The sheriff is civilly responsible for the acts or omissions of his under-sheriff. Mozley & Whitley. A distinction is made More...
  • UNDER-TENANT
    A tenant under one who is himself a tenant; one who holds by under-lease.
  • UNDER-TUTOR
    In Louisiana. In every tutorship there shall be ah under-tutor, whom It shall be the duty of the judge to appoint at the time letters of tutorship are certified for the tutor. It Is the duty of the undertutor to act for the minor' whenever the interest of the minor More...
  • UNDER-TREASURER OF ENGLAND
    He who transacted the business of the lord high treasurer.
  • UNDERLIE THE LAW
    In Scotch, criminal procedure, an accused person, in appearing to take, his trial, is said "to compear and underlie the law." Mozley A Whitley.
  • UNDERSTANDING
    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 something respecting which they intended to be bound. Camp v. Waring, 25 Conn. 529. But it may denote More...
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