Category: Q

L. Lat. The plaintiff did not find a pledge. A return formerly made by a sheriff to a writ requiring him to take security of the plaintiff to prosecute his claim. Cowell.

As much as they were worth. In pleading. The common count in an action of assumpsit for goods sold and delivered, founded on an implied assumpsit or promise, on the part of

The fourth part of anything, especially of a year. Also a length of four inches. In England, a measure of corn, generally reckoned at eight bushels, though subject to local variations. See

Lat A plaintiff; complainant ; inquirer.

See QUICKENING.

A weight of one hundred pounds. Cowell.

In pleading. For that whereas. A form of introducing matter of inducement in certain actions, as assumpsit aud case. Quod datum est ecclesise, datum est Deo. 2 Inst. 2. What is given

A proportional part or share; the proportional part of a demand or liabil ity, falling upon each of those who are col lectively responsible for the whole.

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.

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