Quale Jus
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
What sort of right. The name of an old English writ which lay where an ecclesiastical person had recovered judgment for lands, but had not issued execution, to inquire by what right he was thus proceeding. The object was to search out any collusion between the parties by which, according to Jacob, the lord might be defrauded, or, according to Burrill, the statute of mortmain might be evaded.