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UNA VOCE

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Latin: With one voice; unanImously; without dissent. … [Read more...]

ULTIMATE FACTS

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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. … [Read more...]

ULTIMATUM

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Latin: The last. The final and ultimate proposition made in negotiating a treaty, or a contract, or the like. The last proposition made in making a contract, a treaty, and the like; as, the government of the United States has given its ultimatum, has made the last proposition it will make to complete the proposed treaty. The word also means the result of a negotiation, and it … [Read more...]

UNALIENABLE

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The state of a thing or right which cannot be sold. Incapable of being aliened, that is, sold and transferred. 2. Things which are not in commerce, as public roads, are in their nature unalienable. Some things are unalienable, in consequence of particular provisions in the law forbidding their sale or transfer, as pensions granted by the government. The natural rights of life … [Read more...]

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