Tag: UN

  • Undervalue

    Company Liquidation: Transactions at an undervalue (s238)

  • Unemployment Assistance Board

    Unemployment Assistance Board (Uab) History Set up by the 1934 Unemployment Act, as a result of the Royal Commission on Unemployment 1930-32, to implement the household means test. The means test took the wages and assets of all family members were into account before any unemployment […]

  • Union of South Africa

    Union Of South Africa History Dominion of the British Empire, 1910, joining the British colonies – Cape Colony and Natal – with the Boer colonies – Transvaal and the Orange Free State, to try to heal the wounds of the Boer War.

  • Bargain

    Bargain, from O. Fr. bargaigne, a word of doubtful origin, appearing in many Romance languages, cf. Ital. bargagno; it is connected with Late Lat. barcaniare, to traffic, possibly derived from barca, a barge. Definition of Unconscionable Bargain In accordance with the work A Dictionary of […]

  • Unfit to Plead

    Definition of Unfit To Plead the term does not just cover the issue of the defendant being fit to enter a plea but also if he has the capacity to undergo a trial.

  • Unilateral Contract

    Unilateral Contract in Contract Law According to Questions & Answers Law of Contract: Law Revision and Study Guide (Law Questions & Answers, Oxford University Press), by Adrian Chandler and Ian Brown, Unilateral Contract may have the following meaning: A contract in which one party (the […]

  • University of the Air

    University Of The Air History Name of the 1964 Labour Government project that became the Open University. Rather than create more new universities it was decided to use the new technology to create a 'distance' university using a mixture of local centres for tuition and support, and […]

  • Unregistered Land

    Definition of Unregistered Land Land which is not registered at hm land registry.

  • Undertaking

    Definition of Acknowledgment And Undertaking In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Acknowledgment And Undertaking : Confirmation in a *title deed that a person may see and have copies of relevant deeds not in his possession (acknowledgment), with a promise […]

  • Undertaking

    Definition of Acknowledgment And Undertaking In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Acknowledgment And Undertaking : Confirmation in a *title deed that a person may see and have copies of relevant deeds not in his possession (acknowledgment), with a promise […]

  • Unintentional Defamation

    Definition of Unintentional Defamation Operates as a response to an action in defamation where the defendant is unaware of the defamatory nature of remarks made.

  • Unliquidated Damages

    Definition of Unliquidated Damages This means that the amount or quantum of the damages claimed is yet to be determined.

  • Unenforceable Contract

    Definition of Unenforceable Contracts Are those contracts which are valid but are unenforceable.

  • Unemployment

    Resources See Also Further Reading Unemployment in the Encyclopedia of Britain Unemployment in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary Unemployment in the Halsbury's Laws of England Unemployment in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases Unemployment in the Jowitt's […]

  • United Nations

    Resources See Also Further Reading United Nations in the Encyclopedia of Britain United Nations in the Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary United Nations in the Halsbury's Laws of England United Nations in the Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases United Nations in the […]