Universal
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Occurs in some compounds. Universal agent. One who is appointed (if, indeed, one can be) to do all the acts which the principal can personally do, and which he may lawfully delegate the power to another to do.
Story Ag. 18.
Universal legacy
In the civil law, a testamentary disposition by which the testator gives to one or several persons a person to whom the whole property of a testator is bequeathed. Universal partnership. In French law, is said to be a species of partnership by which all the partners agree to put in common all their property, universorum bonorum, not only what they then have, but also what they shall acquire. Bouvier says that, in Louisiana, universal partnerships are allowed, with the limitation that property which may accrue to one of the parties after entering into the partnership, by donation, succession, or legacy, does not become common stock; and any stipulation to that effect previous to the obtaining the property aforesaid is void. La. Civ. Code, art.
2800.