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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
- Ultra vires
- Without authority. An act which is beyond the powers or authority of the
person or organization which took it.
- Unjust enrichment
- A legal procedure whereby you can seek reimbursement from another who
benefitted 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.
- 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 It has been replaced by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
- 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.
- 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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