Category: U

Substances that react with the container they are stored in.

High court decision to endorse and approve a defendant’s appeal.

An interview without any set format or formula for questions asked. Also known as a non-directive interview.

The hand raised towards the heavens, in one of the forms of taking an oath, instead of being laid upon the Gospels. UPPER BENCH. The court of king’s bench, in England, was so called during the interval between 1649 and 1660, the period of the commonwealth, Rolle being then chief justice. See 3 BL Comm. 202. UPSET PRICE 1189 USE

Process where transport containers are unsealed and all goods removed. Also known as devanning, stripping.

Loan where interest as added as soon as the money is given to the borrower.

Risk of a securities investment not common to all securities but to a certain security. Also known as non-systemic risk.

A prodigal; a spendthrift 1 Bl. Comm. 306.

This term generally excludes the day to which it relates; but It will be con- strued otherwise, if required by the evident intention of the parties. Kendall v. Klngs-

The rule of evidence which obtains in the civil law, that the testimony of one witness is equiva- lent to the testimony of none. Wharton.