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Quash

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

To annul, overthrow, or vacate by judicial decision; as to quash an indictment.

Que est le mesme

The law-French expression equivalent to the Latin quce est eadem, — which is the same thing. The words were formerly used in pleas of justification for trespass, to indicate that the thing justified was the same thing as that of which the plaintiff complained.