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QUANDO A LIQUID MANDATUR

circumstances, natural or adventitious, which are inherently or legally necessary to render him eligible to fill an ollice or to perform a public duty or function. Thus, the ownership of a freehold

QUARE IMPEDIT

Wherefore he hinders. In English practice. A writ or action which lies for the patron of an advowson, where he has been disturbed in his right of patronage; so called from the

QUASH

To overthrow ; to abate; to annul ; to make void. Spelman ; 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Crawford v. Stewart, 38 Pa. 34; Holland v. Webster, 43 Fla. 85, 29 South. 625;

QUESTUS EST NOBIS

Lat. A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 Edw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that

QUIET, v

To pacify; to render secure or unassailable by the removal of disquieting causes or disputes. This is the meaning of tbe word in the phrase “action to quiet title.” which is a

QUO ANIMO

Lat. With what intention or motive. Used sometimes as a substantive. in lieu of the single word “animus,” design or motive. “The quo animo is the real subject of inquiry.” 1 Kent,

QUOD PERMITTAT

That he permit In old English law. A writ which lay for the heir of him that was disseised of his common of pasture, against the heir of the disseisor. Cowell.

QUOUSQUE

Lat. How long; how far; until. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Coke, 41.

QNASI CONTRACTS

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

QUATER COUSIN

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

QUASI CRIMES

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

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