Category: Q

That if it happen. Words by which a condition might formerly be created in a deed. Litt.

Lat. Considered as; in the character or capacity of. For example, “the trustee qua trustee [that is, in his character as trusteel is not liable,” etc.

Lat. In old English practice. A writ which lay where an inquisition had been made by an escheator iu any county of such lands or tenements as any man died seised of,

everything by which it can be accomplished is also commanded. Quando aliquid prohibetur ex directo, prohibetur et per obliquum. Co. Litt. 223. When anything is prohibited directly, it is prohibited also indirectly.

This word Is said to extend not only to real and personal actions, but also to the causes of actions and suits; so that by the release of all “quarrels,” not only

A worthless woman; a strumpet. Obsolete.

“Because the purchasers.” The title of the statute of Westm. 3. (18 Edw. I. c. 1.) This statute took from the tenants of common lords the feudal liberty they claimed of disposing

In old English law. Quitreut. Spelmau. See QUITRENT. Quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introducto. Every oue may renounce or re- linquish a right introduced for his own benefit. 2 Inst. 183;

Qnod alias bonum et justum est, si per vim vel fraudem petatur, malum et in- justum efficitur. 3 Coke, 78. What otherwise is good and just, if it be sought by force

ed. and will not be permitted to be made the subject of any adjustment or compensation on the part of the grantee. Ex parte Miller, 2 Hill (N. Y.) 423. Quod subintelligitur

A pretender to medical skill which he does not possess; one who practices as a physician or surgeon without adequate preparation or due qualification. See El- mergreen v. Horn, 115 Wis. 385,

Quaecunque intra rationem legis in- veniuntur intra legem ipsam esse judi- cantur. Things which are found within the reason of a law are supposed to be within the law itself. 2 Inst.

of a statute are special, but the reason or object of it general, the statute Is to be construed generally. 10 Coke, 1016.

In mining law. An open excavation where the works are visible at the surface; a place or pit where stone, slate, marble, etc., is dug out or separated from a mass of

Lat. An action preferred in any court of justice. The plaintiff was called “querens,” or complainant and his brief, complaint, or declaration was called “querela.” Jacob.

Because it issued erroneously, or through mistake. A term in old English practice. Yel. 83.

In French marine law. Keel; the keel of a vessel. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 6, art 8.

That the bill be quashed. The common-law form of -a judgment sustaining a plea in abatement, where the proceeding is by bill, i. e., by a capias instead of by original writ

Which see. A direction to the reader to look to another part of the book, or to another book, there named, for further information. Quod voluit non dixit. What he intended he

Lat. Whichever way you take it.