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UNCONTROLLABLE IMPULSE

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As an excuse for the commission of an act otherwise criminal, this term means an impulse towards its commission of such fixity and intensity that it cannot be resisted by the person subject to it, in the enfeebled condition of his will and moral sense re-sulting from derangement or mania. See INSANITY. And see State v. O'Neil, 51 Kan. 651, 33 Pac. 287, 24 L. R. A. 555. … [Read more...]

UNCIARIUS HAERES

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Latin: In Roman law. An heir to one-twelfth of an estate or inheritance. Calvin. … [Read more...]

UNCORE PRIST

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L. Fr. Still ready. A species of plea or replication by which the party alleges that he is still ready to pay or perform all that is Justly demanded of him. In conjunction with the phrase "tout temps prists" it signifies that he has always been, and still is ready. … [Read more...]

UNCITRAL

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Abbreviation for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, as well as the arbitration rules and law promulgated by UNCITRAL. … [Read more...]

UNCORE PRIT

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pleading. This barbarous phrase of old French, which is the same with encore pret, yet ready, is used in a plea in bar to an action of debt on a bond due at a day past; when the defendant pleads a tender on the day it became due, and adds that he is uncore prit, still ready to pay the same. … [Read more...]

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