Scots Law. [L.: see next.] The whole (of an estate or inheritance).
1765–8. [see UNIVERSAL a. 2 b].
1838. W. Bell, Dict. Law Scot., 467. Things, in their nature heritable, may become moveable by being made part of a moveable universitas.
1888. Ld. Macnaghten, in Law Rep. Ho. Lords, XIII. 383. The legacies are to be paid out of the universitas of the testator’s estate.
