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QUORUM

When a committee, board of directors, meeting of shareholders, legisla- tive or other body of persons cannot act unless a certain number at least of them are present, that number is called

QUADRAGESIMALS

Offerings formerly made, on Mid-Lent Sunday, to the mother church.

QUANTUM MERUIT

As much as he deserved. In pleading. The common count in an action of assumpsit for work and labor, founded on an implied assumpsit or promise on the part of the defendant

QUARTA FALCIDIA

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,

QUI DAT FINEM

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

QUICK

Living; alive. “Quick chattels must be put in pound-overt that the owner may give them sustenance; dead need not.” Finch, Law, b. 2, c. 6.

QUOD COMPUTET

That he account Judgment quod computet is a preliminary or interlocutory judgment given in the action of account-render (also iu the case of cred- itors’ bills against au executor or administrator,) directing

QUOT

In old Scotch law. A twentieth part of the movable estate of a person dying, which was due to the bishop of the diocese within which the person resided. Bell.

QUADRAGESMS

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.

QUiERENS NON INVENIT PEEGIUM

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.

QUANTUM VALEBANT

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

QUARTER

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

QUERENS

Lat A plaintiff; complainant ; inquirer.

QUOD CUM

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

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