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  • 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.
  • UPPER BENCH
    The court of king's beuch, in England, was so called during the interval between 1649 and 1660, the period of the commonwealth, Rolle being then chief justice. See 3 Bl. Comm. 202.
  • UPSET PRICE
    In sales by auctions, an amount for which property to be sold is put up, so that the flrst bidder at that price is declared the buyer. Wharton.
  • UPSUN
    In Scotch law. Between the hours of sunrise and sunset. Poinding must be executed with upsun. 1 Forb. Inst pt 8, p. 32.
  • URBAN HOMESTEAD
    See HOMESTEAD
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