Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

UTTEE BAB

UXOKICIDE

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UTTER BAB. In English law. The bar at which those barristers, usually junior men, practice who have not yet been raised to the dignity of queen's counsel. These junior barristers are said to plead without the bar; while those of the higher rank are admitted to seats within the bar, and ad dress the court or a jury from a place re served for them, and divided off by a bar. Brown. UTTER BARRISTER. In English law. Those barristers who plead without the bar, and are distinguished from benchers, or those who have been readers, and who are allowed to plead within the bar, as the king's counsel are. Cowell.

UXOR. Lat. In the civil law. A wife; a woman lawfully married. Uxor et fllius sunt nomina naturae. Wife and son are names of nature. 4 Bac Works, 350. Uxor non est sui juris, sed sub po testate viri. A wife is not her own mis tress, but is under the power of her husband. 8 Inst. 108. Uxor sequitur domicilium viri. A wife follows the domicile of her husband. Tray. Lat. Max. 606. UXORICIDE. The killing of a wife bj her husband; one who murders his wife, Not a technical term of the law.

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