Latin: As guests. 1 Salk. 25, pi. 10. Ut poena ad paucos, metus ad omnes 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. Comm. 11. Ut res magis valeat quam pereat. That the thing may rather have efEect than be destroyed. Saltonstall v. Sanders, … [Read more...] about UT HOSPTTES
USURY
contracts. The illegal profit which is required and received by the lender of a sum of money from the borrower for its use. In a more extended and improper sense, it is the receipt of any profit whatever for the use of money: it is only in the first of these senses that usury will be here considered. 2. To constitute a usurious contract the following are the requisites: 1. A … [Read more...] about USURY
USURP
To seize the control of something from another. Mutiny. To overthrow. To overcome the authority or impact of another. … [Read more...] about USURP
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. … [Read more...] about UTERQUE
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. … [Read more...] about UTFANGTHEF