USE 



he niould not be able to demand payment fooner, may have 

 the advantage of that delay ; but a good payee will not 

 avail himfelf of the days of grace, in order to delay the 

 payment of a bill beyond the written term. 



If a bill which is not duly paid is not protefted imme- 

 diately, as above, the holder has no recourfe except againft 

 the acceptor. 



Bills drawn at fight, or on demand, or at lefs than feven 

 days fight, or date," are not allowed any days of grace, but 

 •muft be paid within twenty-four hours at the lateft, unlefs 

 they fall due on a Sunday or holiday. 



Ufance is fourteen days after acceptance ; half ufance, 

 feven days ; one and a half ufance, twenty-one days, in- 

 cluding Sundays and holidays ; but the day of acceptance 

 is not included. 



Bills payable medio menfe (in the middle of the month) 

 are reckoned due on the fifteenth, and are allowed, like 

 other bills, three days grace, if neceffary. 



The ufance at Zurich, for bills drawn from Amfterdam, or 

 any part of Germany, is fourteen days after fight. No days 

 of grace are allowed. The exchanges at Zurzach in Swit- 

 zerland, in which there are two great fairs annually, are re- 

 gulated by thofe of Zurich. Kelly's Cambift, vol. i. paflim. 

 See Exchange and Bills of Exchange. 

 USBEK£^, in Geography. See Uzbeks. 

 USBIUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Germany, 

 near the Danube. Ptolemy. 



USCHEAU, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in 

 the circle of Boleilaw ; 5 miles N.W. of Nimburg. 



USCHECH, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Yemen ; 10 miles S.E. of Chamir. 



USCOKAN, a fmall ifland in the Eall Indian fea, 

 near the fouth-wcft coail of Borneo. N. lat. 6° 21'. E. 

 long. 1 16° 25'. 



USCUDEMA.in Ancient Geography, z. town of Thrace, 

 belonging to the Bafli, taken by Luculhis. 

 USCUP, in Geography. See ScopiA. 

 USDAW, a town of Pruffia, in Oberland ; 7 miles N. 

 of Soldau. 



USDICESICA, in Ancient Geography, a prefefture of 

 Thrace, on the fide of the two Mccfias, in the vicinity and 

 to the W. of mount Hxmus. Ptolemy. 



USE, in Geography, a river of Germany, which runs 

 into the Nidd, near AITenheim. 



Use, Uj'us, in Law, denotes the benefit or profit of 

 lands and tenements. 



Ui'e imports a trull and confidence repofed in a man for 

 the holding of lands ; that he, to whofe ufc or benefit the 

 truft is intended, fhall reap the benefits of it. 



A deed confifts of two principal parts ; the premifcs, 

 which include all that comes before the habendum, or limi- 

 tation of the eftate ; and the confequent, which is the haben- 

 dum itfelf ; in which there are two limitations ; the one of 

 the ejlate, or property the party fhall receive by the deed ; 

 the other of the ufe, expreffing to or for what ufeand bene- 

 fit he ftiall have the fame. 



Ufes, fome fay, were invented upon the flat, of Weft- 

 miofter. Quia emptores terrarum ; before which time no fuch 

 ufes were Known. And becaufe, in courfe of time, many 

 deceits got footing, by fettling the pofleffion in one man, and 

 the ufe in another, it was enafted, anno 27 Hen. VIII. 

 cap. 10. that the ufe and poffefiion of lands (hould ftand 

 united, or that the poffefiion (hould be given to him who 

 had the ufe. 



Hence this ftatufe is called the Statute of Ufes 5 or, in 

 conveyances and pleadings, the ftatute for trcmsferring ufes 

 into pujfejfion. 



USE 



Use and Cuflom, in Ancient Law-Booh, denotes tlie or- 

 dinary method of adting or proceeding in any cafe, which, 

 by length of time, has obtained the force of a law. 



Use, Cejiui que. See Cestli. 



Use, Contingent. See Contingent. 



Use, Refulting, is an ufe which, being limited by the 

 deed, expires, or cannot veft, and returns back to him who 

 raifed it, after fuch expiration, or during fuch impoffibility : 

 as if a man makes a feoffment to the ufe of his intended wife 

 for fife, with a remainder to the ufe of her firft born fon in 

 tail ; here, till he marries, the ufe refults back to himfelf ; 

 after marriage, it is executed in the wife for fife ; and if (he 

 dies without iffue, the whole refults back to him in fee. 



Use, Secondary, or Shifting, is that which, though exe- 

 cuted, may change from one to another by circumftances ex 

 pojl faSo ; as, if A makes a feoffment to the ufe of his in- 

 tended wife and her eldeil fon for their lives, upon the 

 marriage the wife takes the whole ufe in feveralty ; and 

 upon the birth of a fon, the ufe is executed jointly in them 

 both. Blackft. Com. book ii. 



Uses, Covenant to fland fifed to. See Covenant. 



Uses and Cujfoms of the Sea are certain maxims, rules, or 

 ufages, which make the bafe or ground-work of the mari- 

 time jurifprudence ; by which the policy of navigation, and 

 commerce of the fea, are regulated. 



Thefe ufes and cuftoms confift in three kinds of regula- 

 tions. The firft, called laws, or judgments of Oleron, were 

 made by order of queen Eleanor, duchefs of Guienne, at 

 her return from the holy war ; and that chiefly from me- 

 moirs which (he had gathered in the Levant, where com- 

 merce was at that time in a very flourifhing condition. She 

 called them rolls of Olertn, becaufe (he then refided in an 

 ifland of that name, in the bay of Aquitaine. Thefe were 

 much augmented, about the year 1266, by her fon Richard, 

 king of England, on his return from the Holy Land. See 

 Laws of Oleron. 



The fecond regulations were made by the merchants of 

 Wi(by, a city in the ifland of Gothland, in the Baltic, an- 

 ciently much famed for commerce ; mod of the nations of 

 Europe having their particular quarters, magazines, and 

 (hops, in it. Thefe were compiled in the Teutonic language, 

 and are ftill the rule in the northern countries. Their date 

 does not appear ; but it is probable they were made fince 

 the year 1288, when the city of Wi(by was deftroyed the 

 firft time, and afterwards reftored by Magnus, king of 

 Sweden. See Marine Insurance. 



The third fet of regulations was made at Lubec, about 

 the year 1597, by the deputies of the Hanse-Too'/!^. 



USEDOM, in Geography, a town of Anterior Pome- 

 rania, fituated on the fouth-weft coaft of the ifland of Ufe- 

 dom, on the bay of the Frifche Haff ; 8 miles E. of 

 Anclam. — Alfo, an ifland in the Baltic, feparated from 

 the coaft of Pomerania, partly by the river Pcenc, and 

 partly by the Frifche Haff; about 39 miles in length, of 

 a very irregular form, and in no part above three miles from 

 the fea. N. lat. 54° 15' to 54° 45'. E. long. 13° u' to 

 13058'. 



USEFF, a town of Tunis ; 32 miles N.W. of Cai- 

 roan. 



USEL, a river of Bavaria, which runs into the Danube, 

 3 miles W. of Neuburg. 



USELETT, a long range of mountains in Tunis, called 

 by the ancients Alons l/falitanus, W. of Cairoan. 



USELLIS, in Ancient Geography, a town on the weftem 

 fide of the ifland of Sardinia, between the mouths of the 

 rivers Thyrfus and Sacer, with the title of a colony. 



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