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  • USEE
    A person for whose use a suit is brought; otherwise termed the "use plaintiff."
  • USEFUL
    By "useful" in the patent law, is meant not an invention in all cases superior to the modes now in use for the same purposes, but "useful," in contradistinction to frivolous and mischievous, inven¬tion. Lowell v. Lewis, 1 Mason, 182, 186, Fed. Cas. No. 8,568. By "useful" is meant such More...
  • USER
    The actual exercise or enjoyment of any right or property. It is particularly used of franchises. —Adverse user. An adverse user is such a use of the property as the owner himself would make, asking no permission, and disre¬garding all other claims to it, so far as they conflict with More...
  • USER DE ACTION
    L. Fr. In old practice. The pursuing or bringing an action. Cowell.
  • USHER
    This word is said to be derived from "huissier," and is the name of a subordinate ofllcer in some English courts of law. Archb. Pr. 25.
  • USHER OF THE BLACK ROD
    The gentleman usher of the black rod is an of¬ficer of the house of lords appointed by lletters patent from tbe crown. His duties are, by himself or deputy, to desire the attendance of the commons in the house of peers when the royal assent is given to bills, either More...
  • USO
    In Spanish law. Usage; that which arises from certain things which men say and do and practice uninterruptedly for a great length of time, without any hindrance whatever. Las Partidas, pt. 1, tit 2, 1. 1.
  • USQUE
    Lat Up to; until. This is a word of exclusion, and a release of all demands usque ad a certain day does not cover a bond made on that day. 2 Mod. 28.
  • USQUE AD FILUM AQUAE, OR VIAE
    Up to the middle of the stream or road.
  • USUAL
    Habitual; ordinary; customary; according to usage or custom; commonly es-tablished, observed, or practised. See Chi-cago & A. R. Co. v. Hause, 71 111. App. 147; Kellogg v. Curtis, 69 Me. 214, 81 Am. Rep. 273 ; Teacher v Merea, 118 Ind. 686, 21 N. E. 316; Trust Co. v. Norrls, More...
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