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QUADRIPARTITE

Divided into four parts. A term applied in conveyancing to an indenture executed in four parts.

QUANDO A LIQUID MANDATUR

circumstances, natural or adventitious, which are inherently or legally necessary to render him eligible to fill an ollice or to perform a public duty or function. Thus, the ownership of a freehold

QUARE IMPEDIT

Wherefore he hinders. In English practice. A writ or action which lies for the patron of an advowson, where he has been disturbed in his right of patronage; so called from the

QUASH

To overthrow ; to abate; to annul ; to make void. Spelman ; 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Crawford v. Stewart, 38 Pa. 34; Holland v. Webster, 43 Fla. 85, 29 South. 625;

QUESTUS EST NOBIS

Lat. A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 Edw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that

QUIET, v

To pacify; to render secure or unassailable by the removal of disquieting causes or disputes. This is the meaning of tbe word in the phrase “action to quiet title.” which is a

QUO ANIMO

Lat. With what intention or motive. Used sometimes as a substantive. in lieu of the single word “animus,” design or motive. “The quo animo is the real subject of inquiry.” 1 Kent,

QUOD PERMITTAT

That he permit In old English law. A writ which lay for the heir of him that was disseised of his common of pasture, against the heir of the disseisor. Cowell.

QUOUSQUE

Lat. How long; how far; until. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Coke, 41.

Q C

An abbreviation of “Queen’s Counsel.

QUADROON

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.

QUALIFY

To make one’s self fit or prepared to exercise a right, office, or franchise. To take the steps necessary to prepare one’s self for an office or appointment as by taking oath,

QUARE INCUMBRAVIT

In English law. A writ which lay against a bishop who, within six months after the vacation of a benefice, conferred it on his clerk, while two others were contending at law

QUERELA INOFFICIOSI

ology to indicate that one subject resembles another, with which it Is compared, in cer- tain characteristics, but that there are also intrinsic differences between them. It is exclusively a term of

QUI NON PROHIBET

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.

QUIET,

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

QUO JURE

Lat. In old English practice. A writ which lay for one that had land in which another claimed common, to compel the latter to show by what title he claimed it. Cowell;

QUOD PERMITTAT PROSTERNERE

That he permit to abate. In old practice. A writ, in the nature of a writ of right, which lay to abate a nuisance. 3 Bl. Comm. 221. And see Conhocton Stone

QUOV1S MODO

Lat. In whatever manner. Quum de lucro duorum quseratur, melior est causa possidentis. When the question is as to the gain of two persons, the title of the party in possession is

Q C F

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

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