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  • UNFAIR COMPETITION
    A term which may be applied generally to all dishonest or fraudulent rivalry in trade and commerce, but is particularly applied in the courts of equity (where it may be restrained by Injunction) to the practice of endeavoring to substitute one's own goods or products in the markets for those More...
  • UNGELD
    In Saxon law. An outlaw; a person whose murder required no compo-sition to be made, or voeregeld to be paid, by his slayer.
  • UNICA TAXATIO
    The obsolete language of a special award of venire, where, of several defendants, one pleads, and one lets judgment go by default, whereby the Jury, who are to try and assess damages on the issue, are also to assess damages against the defendant suffering judgment by default. Wharton.
  • UNIFORM
    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. Co., 20 Iowa, 342; People v. Judge, 17 Cal. 654; Kelley v. State, 6 Ohio St. 271: State More...
  • UNIFORMITY
    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 uniformity must be coextensive with the territory to which it applies. And it must be extended to all More...
  • UNIFORMITY, ACT OF
    which regulates the terms of membership In the Church of England and the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, (St. 13 A 14 Car. II. c. 4.) See St. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 59. The act of uniform¬ity has been amended by the St. 35 & 36 Vict. c. 35, More...
  • UNIFORMITY OF PROCESS ACT
    The English statute of 2 Wm. IV. c. 39, es-tablishing a uniform process for the commencement of actions in all the courts of law at Westminster. 3 Steph. Comm. 566.
  • UNIGENITURE
    The state of being the only begotten.
  • UNILATERAL
    One-sided; ex parte; having relation to only one of two or more persons or things. —Unilateral contract. See CONTRACT.— Unilateral mistake. A mistake or misun-derstanding as to the terms or effect of a contract, made or entertained by one of the parties to it but not by the other. Green More...
  • UNINTELLIGIBLE
    That which cannot be understood.
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