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  • 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...
  • UNDERSTOOD
    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." Higgin-son v. Weld, 14 Gray (Mass.) 165.
  • UNDERTAKING
    A promise, engager ment, 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 frequently used in the special sense of a promise given in the course of legal proceedings by More...
  • UNDERTOOK
    Agreed; assumed. This is the technical word to be used in alleging the promise which forms the basis of an action of assumpsit.
  • UNDERWRITER
    The person who insures another in a fire or life policy; the in¬surer. See Childs v. Firemen's Ins. Co., 66 Minn. 393, 69 N. W. 141, 35 L. R. A. 99. A person who joins with others in enter¬ing into a marine policy of insurance as insurer.
  • UNDIVIDED
    An undivided' right or title, or a title to an undivided portion of ah estate, is that owned by one of two or more tenants in common or joint tenants before partition.
  • UNDRES
    In old English law. Minors or persons under age not capable of bearing arms. Fleta, 1. 1, c 9; Cowell.
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