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UNAVOIDABLE CASUALTY
the term given to an injury that has occurred even after all due care and diligence was practiced.
UNAVOIDABLE CAUSE
the term used to describe an unavoidable cause that has not happened due to negligence or to a lack of diligence.
UNAVOIDABLE DANGER
a term in maritime law where an accident could not be avoided by taking due care and diligence.
UNBUNDLING
The process where a large item is broken into its smaller parts.
UNCEASESATH
In Saxon law. An oath by relations not to avenge a relation’s death. Blount.
UNCERTAINTY
Such vagueness, obscurity, or confusion in any written instrument , e. g., a will, as to render It unintelligible to those who are called upon to execute or interpret it, […]
UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS
Examination that is detailed of a condition, circumstance, event or condition to gain understanding to assign credible probabilities to its outcome.
UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE
Accepting assumed explanations or causes as facts to escape discomfort are associated with uncertainty or ambiguity.
UNCHECKED BAGGAGE
Passenger’s personal effects kept with them during a flight.
UNCIA
Lat. In Roman law. An ounce; the twelfth of the Roman “as,” or pound. The twelfth part of anything; the proportion of one-twelfth. 2 Bl. Comm. 4G2, note m.
UNCIA AGRI, UNCIA TERR
These phrases often occur in the charters of the British kings, and signify some measure or quantity of land. It is said to have beeu the quantity of twelve viodii; […]
UNCIARIUS HTERES
Lat. In Roman law. An heir to one-twelfth of an estate or inheritance . Calvin.
UNCLAIMED BALANCE
Money in an inactive bank account that after 5 years is considered an abandoned account and property goes to the state under escheat laws. See dormant bank account.
UNCLE
e. Calvin. UNCLE. The brother of one’s father or mother. State v. Reedy, 44 Kan. 100, 24 Pac. 06; State v. Guiton, 51 La. Ann. 155, 24 South. 784.
UNCLEAN HANDS
a doctrine that a decision should not favour the plaintiff who has not acted accordingly and honestly.
UNCLEARED CHECK
Cheque still passing through a clearing cycle . See nucleated effects.
UNCLEARED EFFECTS
Drafts and cheques deposited by a customer but have not been cleared or paid by the writer of the cheque, or money is not in depositor’s account yet. Also known […]
UNCOLLECTIBLE
A thing unable to be collected after all efforts have been made.
UNCONDITIONAL DISCHARGE
This phrase relates to a suspended sentence that has no conditions or terms attached by the court.
UNCONDITIONAL PARDON
This term applies to the pardon that is given without any terms and conditions .
UNCONSCIONABILITY
Degree of unreasonableness and unfairness of a contract or deal prompting a court to modify or nullify it.
UNCONSCIONABILITY DOCTRINE
Legal principle where a court will modify or nullify conditions of contract placing one party at the other’s mercy.
UNCONSCIONABLE
Not having a conscious.
UNCONSCIONABLE BARGAIN
A contract which no man in his senses, not under delusion, would make, on the one hand, and which no fair and honest man would accept on the other. Ilume […]