Category: Q

The fourth part of anything, especially of a year. Also a length of four inches. In England, a measure of corn, generally reckoned at eight bushels, though subject to local variations. See

Lat A plaintiff; complainant ; inquirer.

See QUICKENING.

A weight of one hundred pounds. Cowell.

In pleading. For that whereas. A form of introducing matter of inducement in certain actions, as assumpsit aud case. Quod datum est ecclesise, datum est Deo. 2 Inst. 2. What is given

A proportional part or share; the proportional part of a demand or liabil ity, falling upon each of those who are col lectively responsible for the whole.

Lat. In Roman law. The fourth part; the quarter of any number. measure, or quantity. Hence an heir to the fourth part of the inheritance was called “hwres ex quadrante.” Also a

An indulgence or remission of penance, sold by the pope.

A period of time (theoretically forty days) during which a vessel, coming from a place where a contagious or infectious disease is prevalent, is detained by authority in the harbor of her

In English law. A criminal court held before two or more justices of the peace, (one of whom must be of the quorum,) in every county, once in every quarter of a

In old records. A quest; an inquest, inquisition, or inquiry, upon the oaths of an impaneled jury. Cowell.

In medical Jurisprudence. The first motion of the foetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of tbe term of pregnancy. See Com. v. Barker, 9 Mete.

A term used in the West Indies to designate a person one of whose parents was a white person and the other a quadroon. Also spelled “quintroon.” See Daniel v. Guy, 19

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

In old English law. A measure of land, variously described as a quarter of an acre or the fourth part of a yard-land.

In Roman law. Anciently a species of commission granted by the comitia to one or more persons for the purpose of inquiring into some crime or public offense and reporting thereon. In

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

A method of criminal examination heretofore in use in some of the countries of coutineutal Europe, consisting of the application of torture to the supposed criminal, by means of the rack or