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Uncertainty

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

That which is unknown or vague. See Certainty, Will. UNCIA TERR>€ (Lat.). This phrase often occurs in early charters of the British kings, and denotes some quantity of land. It was tw’elve modii, each modius possibly one hundred feet square. Mon. Aug. tom.

3, pp. 198, 205.

U NCIARI US H/ERES. In Civil Law. An heir to one-twelfth of an estate or inheritance. Calv. Lex.