Category: Q

A query; question; doubt This word, occurring in tbe syllabus of a reported case or elsewhere, shows that a question is propounded as to what follows, or that the particular rule, decision,

Lat. The name of an action in the civil lnw, (and in Louisiana,) brought by the purchaser of an article, for a reduction of the agreed price on account of defects in

A liquid measure, containing one-fourth part of a gallon.

A writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the king himself, before the king and his council. Beg. Orig. 124.

Lat. Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice. The technical name of a bill filed by a party who seeks the aid of a court of equity, because he fears some

In old English law. The Cinque Ports. Spelman.

A writ to exempt a clerk of the clmucery from the coutributiou towards the proctors of the clergy iu parlia- meut etc. lteg. Orig. 261.

(Since the attachments.) One of the oldest books in the Scotch law. So called from the two first words of the volume. Jacob; Whishaw.

What is equitable and good is the law of laws. Hob. 224.

In the civil law. A contractual relation arising out of transactions between the parties which give them mutual rights and obligations, but do not involve a specific and express convention or agreement

Properly, a cousin in the fourth degree ; but the term has come to express auy remote degree of relationship, and even to bear an ironical signification, in which it denotes a

This term embraces all oTenses not crimes or misdemeanors, but that are in the nature of crimes.