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Useful
UsefulThat which may be put into beneficial practice. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Beneficial Of advantage, profit or interest; as the wife has a beneficial interest in property held by a trustee for her. Practice The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- Uresa Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act of the United States, as created in 1950 by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. This was the first family support uniform legislation in the USA and it was ultimately adopted, in some form or another, by all the US states. It was updated in 1968 and the revised version became known as "RURESA", the initial "R" standing for "Revised." It has been replaced by UIFSA. Usage Long and uniform practice. In its most extensive meaning this term includes custom and prescription, though it differs from them in a narrower sense, it is applied to the habits, modes, and course of dealing which are observed in trade generally, as to all mercantile transactions, or to some particular branches of trade. Usance Commercial law. The term usance comes from usage, and signifies the time which by usage or custom is allowed in certain countries, for the payment of a bill of exchange. Use 1) Estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and suffer him to take the profits. 2) Civil law. A right of receiving so much of the natural profits of a thing as is necessary to daily sustenance; it differs from usufruct, which is a right not only to use but to enjoy. Use and occupation When a contract has been made, either by express or implied agreement, for the use of a house or other real estate, where there was no amount of rent fixed and ascertained, the landlord can recover a reasonable rent in an action of assumpsit for use and occupation. Useful Usher This word is said to be derived from a huissier, and is the name of an inferior officer in some English courts of law Usucaption Civil law. The manner of acquiring property in things by the lapse of time required by law. Usufruct Civil law. The right of enjoying a thing, the property of which is vested in another, and to draw from the same all the profit, utility and advantage which it may produce, provided it be without altering the substance of the thing. Usufructuary Civil law. One who has the right and enjoyment of an usufruct. Usurpation "1) Torts. The unlawful assumption of the use of property which belongs to another; an interruption or the disturbing a man in his right and possession. 2) Government. The tyrannical assumption of the government by force contrary to and in violation of the constitution of the country. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Useful. If you have a better definition for Useful than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Useful may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Useful and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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