Universal

Having relation to the whole or an entirety; pertaining to all without exception; a term more extensive than "general," which latter may admit of exceptions. See Blair v. Howell, 68 Iowa, 619, 28 N. W. 199; Koen v. State, 35 Neb. 676, 53 N. W. 595, 17 L. R. A. 821.

— Universal agent. One who is appointed 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; Baldwin v. Tucker, 112 Ky. 282, 65 S. W. 841, 57 L. R. A. 451; Wood v. McCain, 7 Ala. 800.

— Universal legaey. See Legacy. Universal partnership. See Partnership.

— Universal representation. In Scotch law. A term applied to the representation by an heir of his ancestor. Bell.

— Universal snccession. In the civil law. Succession to the entire estate of another, living or dead, though generally the latter, importing succession to the entire property of the predecessor as a juridical entirety, that is, to all his active as well as passive legal relations. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 649.

See' Agent; All; General; Partnership.

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.