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QUANTUM DAMNIFIC ATUS ?

IIow much damnified? The name of an issue directed by a court of equity to be tried in a court of law, to ascertain the amount of compensation to be allowed for

QUARTA DIVI PII

In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate which he was required by law to leave to a child whom he had adopted and afterwards emancipated or unjustly disinherited, being one-

QUERELA INOFFICIOSI TESTA- MENTI

at. In the civil law. A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the will, founded on tbe presumption of law, in such QUERENS

QUIBBLE

A cavilling or verbal objection. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety.

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

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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