Category: Q

A query; question; doubt This word, occurring in tbe syllabus of a reported case or elsewhere, shows that a question is propounded as to what follows, or that the particular rule, decision,

Lat. The name of an action in the civil lnw, (and in Louisiana,) brought by the purchaser of an article, for a reduction of the agreed price on account of defects in

A liquid measure, containing one-fourth part of a gallon.

A writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the king himself, before the king and his council. Beg. Orig. 124.

Lat. Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice. The technical name of a bill filed by a party who seeks the aid of a court of equity, because he fears some

In old English law. The Cinque Ports. Spelman.

A writ to exempt a clerk of the clmucery from the coutributiou towards the proctors of the clergy iu parlia- meut etc. lteg. Orig. 261.

(Since the attachments.) One of the oldest books in the Scotch law. So called from the two first words of the volume. Jacob; Whishaw.

Lat. The fortieth. The first Sunday in Lent is so called because it is about the fortieth day before Easter. Cowell.

Lat. A plaintiff; the plaintiff.

IIow much damnified? The name of an issue directed by a court of equity to be tried in a court of law, to ascertain the amount of compensation to be allowed for

In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate which he was required by law to leave to a child whom he had adopted and afterwards emancipated or unjustly disinherited, being one-

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.

Consisting of five parts; divided into five parts.

etc. A writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made, bailiff, beadle, reeve, or some such ofiicer, to

When a committee, board of directors, meeting of shareholders, legisla- tive or other body of persons cannot act unless a certain number at least of them are present, that number is called

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

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

As much as he deserved. In pleading. The common count in an action of assumpsit for work and labor, founded on an implied assumpsit or promise on the part of the defendant