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  • UBIQUITY
    Omnipresence; presence in several places, or in all places, at one time. A fiction of English law is the "legal ubiquity" of the sovereign, by which he is con¬structively present in all the courts. 1 BL Comm. 270.
  • UDAL
    A term mentioned by Blackstone as used in Finland to denote that kind of right in real property which is called, in English law, "allodial." 2 Bl. Comm. 45, note.
  • UKAAS, UKASE
    The name of a law or ordinance made by the czar of Russia.
  • ULLAGE
    In commercial law. The amount wanting when a cask, on being gauged, is found not to be completely full.
  • ULNA FERREA
    L. Lat In old English law. The iron ell; the standard ell of iron, kept in the exchequer for the rule of measure.
  • ULNAGE
    Alnage, (which see.)
  • ULTIMA RATIO
    Lat The last argument; the last resort; the means last to be resorted to. Ultima voluntas testatoris est perim-plenda secundum veram intentionem Co. Litt 322. The last will of a testator is to be fulfilled according to his true intention.
  • ULTIMATE FACTS
    In pleading and practice. Facts in issue; opposed to probative or evidential facts, the latter being such as serve to establish or disprove the issues. Kahn v. Central Smelting Co., 2 Utah, 37ft. And see FACT.
  • ULTIMATUM
    Lat The last, the final and ultimate proposition made in negotiating a treaty, or a contract, or the like.
  • ULTIMUM SUPPLICIUM
    Lat The extreme punishment; the extremity of pun-ishment; the punishment of death. 4 BL Comm. 17. Ultimum supplioium esse mortem so-lan interpretamur. The extremest punishment we consider to be death alone. Dig. 48, 19, 21.
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