universitasn.

1741 Ld. Kames Decisions Court of Session 2 284 As conquest is nomen universitatis, to no particular of which can the children lay claim, but to the universitas in general, the father who may forbear to purchase, is at liberty to exerce every act of property after he does purchase.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. ix. 602 Where a settlement is made by the deceased of the whole or the universitas of his moveable estate, the person gratified is called universal legatee.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 467 Things, in their nature heritable, may become moveable by being made part of a moveable universitas.

1888 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 13 383 The legacies..are to be paid out of the universitas of the testator's estate.

1911 Law Rep.: Appeals Cases 221 Mrs. Bayly's settlement raises the question of election owing to the way in which she dealt with the universitas of her estate.

1992 Session Cases 441 Counsel submitted that the reference to the whole of the intestate estate meant that it was the universitas which fell to the surviving brothers.