Quia
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
Because.
In the Latin forms of conveyances, quia was used as the apt word to introduce the consideration; in the same manner as si, to introduce a condition, and ut, the modus of the grant.
Quia emptores
Because purchasers. The initial words of the statute of Westminster 3 (18 Edw. I. ch. 1), regulating sales of lands and tenements; which is hence called the statute quia emptores.
The statute 18 Edw. I. ch.
1, called the statute quia emptores, took from the tenants of common lords the feudal liberty they claimed of disposing of part of their lands to hold of themselves, and instead of it gave them a general liberty to sell all or any part, to hold of the next superior lord, which they could not have done before without consent. ( Wright's Ten. 161; 4 simple estates; and to put an end to the creation of any new manors, !.e. tenancies in fee-simple of a subject. Brown, Quia timet.
Because he fears
The technical name of a bill in equity.
See Bill quia timet.