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QUO NIHIL PRUSTRA

Lat. Which [does or requires] nothing in vain. Which requires nothing to be done, that is, to no purpose. 2 Kent, Comm. 53. Quae non fieri debent, facta valent. Things which ought

QUE EST EE MESME

L. Fr. Which is the same. A term used In actions of trespass, etc. See QU/E EST EADEM.

QUIETUS

In old English law. Quit; acquitted; discharged. A word used by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors in the exchequer, in their acquittances or discharges given to accountants; usually concluding with

QUOAD SACRA

Lat. As to sacred things; for religious purposes. Quocumque modo velit; quocumque modo possit. In any way he wishes; In any way he can. Clason v. Bailey, 14 Johns. (N. Y.) 484,

QUOD SI CONTINGAT

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

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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