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  • UNLIVERY
    A term used in maritime law to designate the unloading of cargo of a vessel at the place where it is properly to be delivered. The Two Catharines, 24 Fed. Cas. 429.
  • UNNATURAL OFFENSE
    The infamous crime against nature; i. e.t Sodomy or buggery. Uno absurdo date, innnita sequuntur. Coke, 102. One absurdity being allowed, an infinity follows.
  • UNO ACTU
    Lat. In a single act; by one and the same act.
  • UNO FLATU
    Lat. In one breath. 8 Man. A O. 45. Uno flatu, et uno intuitu, at one breath, and in one view. Pope v. Nickerson, 8 Story, 504, Fed. Cas. No. 11,274.
  • UNQUES
    L. Fr. Ever; always. Ne unques, never.
  • UNQUES PRIST
    L. Fr. Always ready. Cowell. Another form of tout temps prist.
  • UNSEATED LAND
    See LAND
  • UNSEAWORTHY
    See SEAWORTHY
  • UNSOLEMN WAR
    War denounced without a declaration; war made not upon general but special declaration; imperfect war. People v. McLeod, J Hill (N. Y.) 409, 87 Am. Dec. 828.
  • UNSOUND MIND
    A person of unsound mind is an adult who from infirmity of mind is incapable of managing himself or his af-fairs. The term, therefore, includes insane persons, idiots, and Imbeciles. Sweet. See INSANITY. And see Cheney v. Price, 00 Hun, 238, 37 N. Y. Supp. 117; In re Black's Es¬tate, More...
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