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  • 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.
  • UTI FRUI
    Lat. In the civil law. To have the full use and enjoyment of a thing, without damage to its substance. Calvin.
  • UTI POSSIDETIS
    Lat. In the civil law. A species of interdict for the purpose of retaining possession of a thing, granted to one who, at the time of contesting suit, was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor. Halllfax, Civil Law, b. 3, More...
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