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  • USUS BELLICI
    Lat. In international law. Warlike uses or objects. It is the usus hellici which determine an article to be con¬traband. 1 Kent, Comm. 141. Usus est dominium fidnoiarinm. Bac.St Uses. Use is a fiduciary dominion. Usus et status sive possessio potins diffemnt secundum rationem fori, qnam secundum rationem rei. Bac. More...
  • USUS FRUCTUS
    Lat. In Roman law. Usufruct; usufructuary right or possession. The temporary right of using a thing, without having the ultimate property, or full dominion, of the substance. 2 Bl. Comm. 327.
  • UT CURRERE SOLEBAT
    Lat. As it was wont to run; applied to a water-course.
  • UT DE FEODO
    L. Lat As of fee.
  • UT HOSPTTES
    Lat. As guests. 1 Salk. 25, pi. 10. Ut posna ad panoos, metus ad onuses perveniat. That the punishment may reach a few, but the fear of it affect all. A maxim in criminal law, expressive of one of the principal objects of human punishment 4 Inst 6; 4 Bl. More...
  • UTERINE
    Born of the same mother. A uterine brother or sister is one born of the same mother, but by a different father.
  • UTERO-GESTATTON
    Pregnancy.
  • UTERQUE
    Lat. Both; each. "The justices, being in doubt as to the meaning of this word in an indictment, demanded the opinions of grammarians, who delivered their opinions that this word doth aptly signify one of them." 1 Leon. 241.
  • UTFANGTHEF
    In Saxon and old English law. The privilege of a lord of a manor to judge and punish a thief dwelling out of his liberty, and committing theft without the same, if he were caught within the lord's jurisdiction. Cowell.
  • UTI
    Lat. In the civil law. To use. Strictly, to use for necessary purposes; as distinguished from "frui" to enjoy. Heinecc. Elem. lib. 2, tit. 4, | 415.
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