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UPSET PRICE

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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. … [Read more...] about UPSET PRICE

UNWHOLESOME FOOD

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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 personal chattel, yet it is otherwise with regard to food and liquor when sold for consumption. … [Read more...] about UNWHOLESOME FOOD

UNSOUND MIND or UNSOUND MEMORY

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These words have been adopted in several statutes, and sometimes indiscriminately used to signify, not only lunacy, which is periodical madness, but also a permanent adventitious insanity as distinguished from idiocy. 2. The term unsound mind seems to have been used in those statutes in the same sense as insane; but they have been said to import that the party was in some such … [Read more...] about UNSOUND MIND or UNSOUND MEMORY

UNSEAWORTHY

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UNSEATED LAND

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