Category: Q

In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Falcidian law. was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth. See Mackeld. Rom. Law,

cases, that the parent was not In his right mind. Calvin.; 2 Kent, Comm. 327; Bell.

See QUICKENING.

A weight of one hundred pounds. Cowell.

In pleading. For that whereas. A form of introducing matter of inducement in certain actions, as assumpsit aud case. Quod datum est ecclesise, datum est Deo. 2 Inst. 2. What is given

A proportional part or share; the proportional part of a demand or liabil ity, falling upon each of those who are col lectively responsible for the whole.

The third volume of the year books of the reign of Edward III. So called because beginning with the fortieth year of that sovereign’s reign. Crabb, Eng. Law, 327.

L. Lat. The plaintiff did not find a pledge. A return formerly made by a sheriff to a writ requiring him to take security of the plaintiff to prosecute his claim. Cowell.

As much as they were worth. In pleading. The common count in an action of assumpsit for goods sold and delivered, founded on an implied assumpsit or promise, on the part of

The fourth part of anything, especially of a year. Also a length of four inches. In England, a measure of corn, generally reckoned at eight bushels, though subject to local variations. See

Lat A plaintiff; complainant ; inquirer.

In medical Jurisprudence. The first motion of the foetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of tbe term of pregnancy. See Com. v. Barker, 9 Mete.

A term used in the West Indies to designate a person one of whose parents was a white person and the other a quadroon. Also spelled “quintroon.” See Daniel v. Guy, 19

Qnod !n jure scripto “jus” appcllatur, id ill lege Anglise “rectum” esse dicitur. What in the civil law is called “jus,” in the law of England is said to be “rcctum,” (right)

1. The production to a court or judge of the exact language of a statute, precedent, or other authority, in support of an argument or proposition ad- vanced. 2. The transcription of

Lat. In Roman law. The fourth part; the quarter of any number. measure, or quantity. Hence an heir to the fourth part of the inheritance was called “hwres ex quadrante.” Also a

An indulgence or remission of penance, sold by the pope.

A period of time (theoretically forty days) during which a vessel, coming from a place where a contagious or infectious disease is prevalent, is detained by authority in the harbor of her

In English law. A criminal court held before two or more justices of the peace, (one of whom must be of the quorum,) in every county, once in every quarter of a

In old records. A quest; an inquest, inquisition, or inquiry, upon the oaths of an impaneled jury. Cowell.