Category: Q

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.

A release or acquittance given to one man by another, in respect of any action that he has or might have against him. Also acquitting or giving up one’s claim or title.

Which was not denied. A phrase found in the old reports, signifying that an argument or proposition was not denied or controverted by the court Latch, 213. Quod non habet principium non

words there is no ambiguity, then no exposition contrary to the words is to be made.

This term is sometimes applied to corporations which are not strictly public, in the sense of being organized for governmental purposes, but whose operations contribute to the comfort, convenience, or welfare of

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.

In the civil law. The affinity which exists between two persons, one of whom has been betrothed to a kinsman of the other, but who have never been married.

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

Organizations resembling corporations; municipal societies or similar bodies which, though not true corporations in all respects, are yet recognized, by statutes or immemorial usage, as persons or aggregate corporations, with precise duties