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  • 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...
  • UNTHRIFT
    A prodigal; a spendthrift 1 Bl. Comm. 306.
  • UNTIL
    This term generally excludes the day to which it relates; but it will be con-strued otherwise, if required by the evident intention of the parties. Kendall v. Kings-ley, 120 Mass. 95. Unnmquodque dissolvitur eodesn li-gamino que llgatur. Every obligation Is dissolved by the same solemnity with which it is created. More...
  • UNUS NULLUS RULE, THE
    The rule of evidence which obtains in the civil law, that the testimony of one witness is equivalent to the testimony of none. Wharton.
  • UNWHOLESOME FOOD
    Food not fit to be eaten; food which if eaten would be injurious.
  • UNWRITTEN LAW
    All that portion of the law, observed and administered in the courts, which has not been enacted or promulgated In the form of a statute or ordinance, including the unenacted portions of the common law, general and particular cus¬toms having the force of law, and the rules, principles, and maxims More...
  • UPLIFTED HAND
    The hand raised towards tbe heavens, in one of the forms of taking an oath, Instead of being laid npon the Gospels.
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