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Unity




Unity

Estates. An agreement or coincidence of certain qualities in the title of a joint estate or an estate in common.

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Agreement
A verbal or written resolution of disputes.

Title
1) Estates. A title is defined by Lord Coke to be the means whereby the owner of lands hath the just possession of his property. 2) Legislation That part of an act of the legislature by which it is known, and distinguished from other acts the name of the act. 3) Rights. The name of a newwpaper a book, and the like.

Joint
United, not separate; as, joint action, or one which is brought by several persons acting together; joint bond, a bond given by two or more obligors.

Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.

Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.



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United states attorney
A federal district attorney appointed by the President to prosecute for all offenses committed against the United States; to prosecute or defend for the government all civil actions in which it is concerned and perform all duties of the district to which he/she is assigned.

United states bankruptcy court
The judicial body which hears matters pertaining to bankruptcy and reorganization.

United states court of appeals
Courts which hear appeals from federal district courts, bankruptcy courts, and tax courts.

United states court of appeals for the armed forces
Court which hears appeals from court marshal decisions .

United states court of claims
Court which hears actions against the U.S. Government.

United states court of customs and patent appeals
Court which hears appeals from all U.S. customs courts.

United states court of international trade
Court which hears cases concerning federal tariff laws.

United States Department of Justice
The US federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation) was created in 1870.

United states district courts
Courts which try both criminal and civil actions and admiralty cases.

United states magistrate judge
A court which hears all preliminary criminal matters, but does not conduct felony trials, and any pretrial civil matters referred by the district court. If all parties consent, criminal misdemeanor and civil trials can be heard by this court.

United states marshal's service
Agency which serves civil and criminal process in federal courts.

United states of america
The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, and California.

United states reports
Publication of court decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States of America.

United states supreme court
The highest court in the land, established by U.S. Constitution.

Unity of possession
This term is used to designate the possession by one person of several estates or rights. For example, a right to an estate to which an easement is attached, or the dominant estate, and to an estate which an easement encumbers, or the servient estate, in such case the easement is extinguished. But a distinction has been made between a thing that has being by prescription, and one that has its being ex jure naturae; in the former case unity of possession will extinguish the easement; in the latter, for example, the case of a water course, the unity will not extinguish it.



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United states magistrate judge
A court which hears all preliminary criminal matters, but does not conduct felony trials, and any pretrial civil matters referred by the district court. If all parties consent, criminal misdemeanor and civil trials can be heard by this court.

United states marshal's service
Agency which serves civil and criminal process in federal courts.

United states of america
The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, and California.

United states reports
Publication of court decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

United states supreme court
The highest court in the land, established by U.S. Constitution.

Unity

Unity of possession
This term is used to designate the possession by one person of several estates or rights. For example, a right to an estate to which an easement is attached, or the dominant estate, and to an estate which an easement encumbers, or the servient estate, in such case the easement is extinguished. But a distinction has been made between a thing that has being by prescription, and one that has its being ex jure naturae; in the former case unity of possession will extinguish the easement; in the latter, for example, the case of a water course, the unity will not extinguish it.

Universal legacy
A term used among civilians. An universal legacy is a testamentary disposition, by which the testator gives to one or several persons the whole of the property which he leaves at his decease.

Universal partnership
The name of a specie's of partnership by which all the partners agree to put in common all their property, universorum bonorum, not only what they then have, but also what they shall acquire.

University
The name given to certain societies or corporations which are seminaries of learning where youth are sent to finish their education. Among the civilians by this term is understood a corporation.

Unjust
That which is done against the perfect rights of another; that which is against the established law; that which is opposed to a law which is the test of right and wrong.

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