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  • 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
  • URBAN SERVITUDE
    City servitudes, or servitudes of houses, are called "urban." They are the easements appertaining to the building and construction of houses; as, for instance, the right to light and air, or the right to build a house so as to throw the rain-water on a neighbor's house. Mozley & Whitley; More...
  • URBS
    Lat In Roman law. A city, or a walled town. Sometimes it is put for civitast and denotes the inhabitants, or both the city and its inhabitants; i. e„ the municipality or commonwealth. By way of special pre-eminence, urbs meant the city of Rome. Ains worth.
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