Category: Q

In old English practice. A writ which lay for the grantee of a reversion or remainder, where the particular tenant would not attorn, for the purpose of compelling him. Termes de la

In English law. A record in the exchequer, showiug the tenures for guarding and repairing Dover Castle, and determining the services of the Cinque Ports. 3 How. State Tr. 868.

Lat. In the civil law. The name of an action given to one who had contracted with a son or slave, by order of the father or master, to compel such father

A money ver diet the amount of which is fixed by the fol- lowing process: Each juror writes down the sum he wishes to award by the verdict: these amounts are all

In old records. A stone-pit or quarry. Cowell.

Lat A Roman magistrate, whose ofiice It was to collect the public rev- enue. Varro de L. L. iv. 14.

Latin: “Wherefore he broke the close”. That species of the action of trespass which has for its object the recovery of damages for an unlawful entry upon another’s land is termed “trespass

Quartering of criminals.

In old English law. A starter of lawsuits, or prosecutions; also a person chosen to inquire into abuses, especially such as relate to weights and measures; also a church-warden.

What for what; something for something. Used in law for the giving one valuable thing for another. It is nothing more than the mutual consideration which passes between the parties to a

In Roman law. Ownership held by a title recognized by the municipal law, in an object also recognized by that law, and in the strict character of a Roman citizen. “Roman law

Which was not denied. A phrase found in the old reports, signifying that an argument or proposition was not denied or controverted by the court Latch, 213. Quod non habet principium non

words there is no ambiguity, then no exposition contrary to the words is to be made.

An abbreviation of”Queen’s Bench.”

Lat. In the civil law. The four-years course of study required to be pursued by law-students before they were qualified to study the Code or collection of imperial constitutions. See Inst proem.

L. Lat. That estate which a man has by acquisition or purchase, in con- tradistinction to “hwreditas,” which is what he has by descent. Clan. 1, 7, c. 1.

Wherefore he ejected within the term. In old practice. A writ which lay for a lessee where he was ejected before the expiration of his term, in cases where the wrong-doer or

In the Spanish and French West Indies, a quadroon, that is, a person one of whose parents was white and the other a mulatto. See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 131.

Lat. In Romau law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the comitia, as a kind of commissiou, to search out and try all cases of parricide and murder. They

Lat. Somebody. This term is used in the French law to designate a person whose name is not known. Quidquid cnim sive dolo et culpa ven- ditoris accidit in eo venditor securus