Category: Q

In French marine law. Keel; the keel of a vessel. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 6, art 8.

Lat As to this; with respect to this; so far as this in particular is concerned. A prohibition quoad hoc is a prohibition as to certain things among others. Thus, where a

That he recover The ordinary form of judgments for the plaintiff in actions at law. 1 Archb. Pr. K. B. 225; 1 Burrill, Pr. 240. Quod remedio destituitur ipsa re valet si

An abbreviation of “quare clau- surn -fregit,” (q. v.)

A person who is descended from a white person and another person who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood. State v. Davis, 2 Bailey (S. C.) 558.

L. Lat. That estate which a man has by acquisition or purchase, in con- tradistinction to “hwreditas,” which is what he has by descent. Clan. 1, 7, c. 1.

Lat Wherefore; for what reason ; on what account. Used in the Latin form of several common-law writs.

The act of a government in billeting or assigning soldiers to private houses, without the consent of the owners of such houses, and requiring such owners to supply them with board or

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

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

In old English law. The Cinque Ports. Spelman.

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,

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

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

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.