Category: Q

To leave; remove from; surrender possession of; as when a tenant “quits” the premises or receives a “notice to quit.”

Qnod !n jure scripto “jus” appcllatur, id ill lege Anglise “rectum” esse dicitur. What in the civil law is called “jus,” in the law of England is said to be “rcctum,” (right)

1. The production to a court or judge of the exact language of a statute, precedent, or other authority, in support of an argument or proposition ad- vanced. 2. The transcription of

Offerings formerly made, on Mid-Lent Sunday, to the mother church.

Lat. A plaintiff; the plaintiff.

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A furlong. Co. Litt. 56.

A wharf for the loading or unloading of goods carried in ships. This word is sometimes spelled “key.” The popular and commercial signification of the word “quay” involves the notion of a

means to that end. Commonwealth v. Andrews, 3 Mass. 129. Qui destruit medium destruit flnem. He wlio destroys the mean destroys the end. 10 Coke, 516; Co. Litt 161a; Shep. Touch. 342.

him either to establish his claim or be forever after estopped from asserting it See Wright v. Mattison, 18 How. 56, 15 L. Ed 280.

In conveyancing. To release or relinquish a claim; to execute a deed of quitclaim. See QUITCLAIM, n.

Lat. In the civil law. The name of an action given to one who had contracted with a son or slave, by order of the father or master, to compel such father

A money ver diet the amount of which is fixed by the fol- lowing process: Each juror writes down the sum he wishes to award by the verdict: these amounts are all

The third volume of the year books of the reign of Edward III. So called because beginning with the fortieth year of that sovereign’s reign. Crabb, Eng. Law, 327.

The plaintiff shall take nothing by his bill. A form of judgment for the defendant Latch, 133.

everything by which it can be accomplished is also commanded. Quando aliquid prohibetur ex directo, prohibetur et per obliquum. Co. Litt. 223. When anything is prohibited directly, it is prohibited also indirectly.

This word Is said to extend not only to real and personal actions, but also to the causes of actions and suits; so that by the release of all “quarrels,” not only

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

Qui non propulsat injuriam quando potest, infert. Jenk. Cent. 271. He who does not repel an Injury when he can, induces it. Qui obstruit aditum, destruit com- modum. lie who obstructs a

adj. Unmolested ; tranquil; free from interference or disturbance.