日期：2008-03-26 USAGE. Long and uniform practice. In its most extensive meaning this term includes custom and prescription, though it differs from them in a narrower sense, it is applied to the habits, modes, and course of dealing which are observed in trade genera... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNSOUNDNESS. Vide Crib-biting; Roaring; Soundness. UNWHOLESOME FOOD. Food not fit to be eaten; food which, if eaten, would be injurious. 2. Although the law does not in general consider a sale to be a warranty or goodness of the quality of a persona... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY, crim. law. A disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons who meet together with an intent mutually to assist each other in the execution of some unlawful enterprise of a private nature, with force and violence; if the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNIVERSAL LEGACY. A term used among civilians. An universal legacy is a testamentary disposition, by which the testator gives to one or several persons the whole of the property which he leaves at his decease. Civil Code of Lo. art. 1599; Code Civ.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNITY, estates. An agreement or coincidence of certain qualities in the title of a joint estate or an estate in common. 2. In a joint estate there must exist four unities; that of interest, for a joint-tenant cannot be entitled to one period of dura... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNION. By this word is understood the United States of America; as, all good citizens will support the Union. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delawa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNDIVIDED. That which is held by the same title by two or more persons, whether their rights are equal, as to value or quantity, or unequal. 2. Tenants in common, joint-tenants, and partners, hold an undivided right in their respective properties, u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNDER-SHERIFF. A deputy of a sheriff. The principal is called high-sheriff, and the deputy the under-sheriff. Vide 1 Phil . Ev. Index, h. t. UNDER-TENANT. One who holds by virtue of an underlease. (q. v.) See Subtenant. UNDERTAKING, contracts. An en... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNCONSTITUTIONAL. That which is contrary to the constitution. 2. When an act of the legislature is repugnant or contrary to the constitution, it is, ipso facto, void. 2 Pet. R. 522; 12 Wheat. 270; 3 Dall. 286; 4 Dall. 18. 3. The courts have the powe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UNA VOCE. With one voice unanimously. UNALIENABLE . The state of a thing or right which cannot be sold. 2. Things which are not in commerce, as public roads, are in their nature unalienable. Some things are unalienable, in consequence of particular... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 UBERRIMA FIDES. Perfect good faith; abundant good faith. 2. This phrase is used to express that a contract must be made in perfect good faith, concealing nothing; as in the case of insurance, the insured must observe the most perfect good faith towa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TYBURN TICKET , Eng. late. A certificate given to the prosecutor of a felon to conviction, is so called. 2. By the 10 11. W. III., c. 23, the original proprietor or first assignee of such certificate is exempted from all and all manner of parish and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. After twenty years from th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TUTOR, civil law. A person who has been lawfully appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor. 2. By the laws of Louisiana minors under the age of fourteen years, if males, and under the age of twelve years, if females, are both, as t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TUN, measure. A vessel of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads. TURBARY, Eng. law. A right to dig turf; an easement. TURNKEY. A person under the superintendence of a jailor, whose employment is to open and fasten the prison doors and to prevent th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRUTH. The actual state of things. 2. In contracts, the parties are bound to toll the truth in their dealings, and a deviation from it will generally avoid the contract; Newl. on Contr. 352-3; 2 Burr. 1011; 3 Campb. 285; and even concealment, or sup... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRUSTEE, estates. A trustee is one to whom an estate has been conveyed in trust. 2. The trust estate is not subject to the specialty or judgment debts of the trustee, to the dower of his wife, or the curtesy of the hushand of a female trustee. 3. Wi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TROY WEIGHT. A weight less ponderous than the avoirdupois weight, in the proportion of seven thousand, for the latter, to five thousand seven hundred and sixty, to the former. Dane's Ab. Index, h. t. Vide Weights. TRUCE, intern. law. An agreement be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRIPARTITE. Consisting of three parts, as a deed tripartite, between A of the first part, B of the second part, and C of the third part. TRIPLICATION , pleading. This was formerly used in pleading instead of rebutter. 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 469, n. TRITAV... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-26 TRIAL LIST . A list of cases marked down for trial for any one term. TRIBUNAL. The seat of a judge; the place where he administers justice; but by this term is more usually understood the whole body of judges who compose a jurisdiction sometimes it... 阅读全文>>