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UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE: A model statute covering things such as the sale of goods, credit, and bank transactions. All states have adopted and adapted the entire UCC, with the exception of Louisiana, which only adopted parts of it.
UNIFORM RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ACT: Law that allows an order of child support issued in one state to be enforced in another state.
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UIFSA :
The American uniform child and spousal support legislation, the
Uniform Interstate Family Support Act already adopted and implemented by
most states and expected to be law throughout the USA soon. It is the
successor of URESA and is a long-arm statutes as it gives the state
which issues the first support order jurisdiction over the support payor
anywhere in the USA for the purposes of varying that order. For more
information, please see http://wwlia.org/us-uifsa.htm
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Ultra vires :
Without authority. An act which is beyond the powers or authority of
the person or organization which took it.
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Unjust enrichment :
A legal procedure whereby you can seek reimbursement from another
who benefited from your action or property without legal justification.
There are said to be three conditions which must be met before you can
get a court to force reimbursement based on "unjust enrichment": an
actual enrichment or benefit to the defendant, a corresponding
deprivation to the plaintiff, and the absence of a legal reason for the
defendant's enrichment. For example (and only theoretically as many
countries have laws which have modified equity law in some situations),
if you found somebody else's cash and spent it, you might be sued for
reimbursement under unjust enrichment. The legal theory behind unjust
enrichment is the constructive trust, which the court imposes upon the
circumstances to hold the person unjustly enriched as the trustee for
the person who should properly get the property back, held to be the
beneficiary of the constructive trust.
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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. For more information, please
see http://wwlia.org/us-uifsa.htm
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Usufruct :
From ancient Roman law (and now a part of many civil law systems),
"usufruct" means the rights to the product of another's property. For
example, a farmer may give a right of "usufruct"of his land to a
neighbor, thus enabling that neighbor to sow and reap the harvest of
that land.
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Usury :
Excessive or illegal interest rate. Most countries now prohibit
interest rates above a certain level; and rates which exceed these
levels are called "usury".
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