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Udallers.
The name given to the proprietors of allodial lands in the Orkneys.
Ukase.
A decree of the Czar of Russia is so called. The Czar being an absolute monarch, it has all the force of a legal enactment.
Ulema.
The body of professional theologians and lawyers in Turkey. They are the interpreters of the law of the Koran, and from their body are selected the pleaders and magistrates as well as the priests. The head of the Ulema is the Sheyk-ul-Islam.
Ulm, Capitulation of.
The surrender of the Austrian General Mack, with 30,000 men, to Napoleon in October 1805.