A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

One who, without sufficient knowledge, study or previous preparation, and without the diploma of some college or university, undertakes to practise medicine or surgery, under the p

pileading. Formerly this word was used instead of surrebutter. 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 469, n.

in pleading, practice. When they may happen. When a defendant, executor, or administrator pleads plene administravit, the plaintiff may pray to have judgment of assets quando accid

pleading. That which is susceptible of measure. It is a general rule that, when the declaration alleges an injury to goods and chattels, or any contract relating to them, their qua

pleading. As much as he has deserved. When a person employs another to do work for him, without any agreement as to his compensation, the law implies a promise from the employer to

pleat ing. As much as it was worth When goods are sold, without spe fying any price, the law implies 4 p™ mise from the buyer to the seller he will pay him for them as mu: “4 they

commerce, crim. law, is the space of forty days, or a less quantity of time, during which the crew of a ship or vessel coming from a port or place infected or supposed to be infect

inheritances, rights, is the space of forty days during which a widow has a right to remain in her late husband’s princi- ] mansion, immediately after his death. The right of the w

EJECIT INFRA

measures. <A quart is a liquid measure containing onefourth part of a gallon.

money, a silver coin of the United States of the value of twenty-five cents. It weighs one hundred and three and one-eighth grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure

: money, a gold coin of the United States of the value of two dollars and a half. It weighs sixty-four and one-half grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure gold, an

A court bearing this name, mostly invested with the trial of criminals. It takes its name from sitting quarterly or once in three months. QUARTERING OF SOL-

torts, a term used in the civil law, are those acts Which although not committed by the persons responsible for them, are by implication of law supposed to have been committed by t

There are several kinds of queens in some countries. 1. Queen regnant, is a woman who possesses in her own right the executive power of the country; 2, Queen consort, is the wife o

English practice. A writ commanding the sheriff, that he cause the plaint to be recorded which is in his county, without writ, between the parties, there named, of the cattle, good

practice. A word frequently used to denote that an inquiry ought to be made of a doubtful thing. 2 Lill. Ab. 406. QUARENS NON INVENIT

An action prefercomplainant, and his brief, complaint, or declaration, was called querela. Jacob’s Dict. h. t.

pleading. Which is the same. When the defendant in trespass justifies, and the matter of the plea is concluded, the trespass justified is the same as that complained of in the decl

punishment, crim. law, is a means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices, or to acknowledge th

evidence, is an in terrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. Questions are either general or leading. By a:general

raised ‘without necessity or propriety; a cavil. No justly eminent member of the bar will resort to a quibble in his argument. It is contrary to his oath, which is to be true to th

remedies. Because he fears. According to Lord Coke, “ there be six writs of law that may be maintained quta timet, before any molestation, distress or 1mpleading; as, 1. A man may

med. jurisp. The motion of the foetus, when felt by the mother, is called quickening, and the mother is then said to be quick with child. 1 Beck's Med. Jurisp. 172; 1 Russ. on Cr.

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some one; somebody. French law. This latin word is used dam is usually described by the features of his face,’ the colour of his hair, his height, his clothing, and the like, in an

A weight of hundred pounds.

remedies. Who as well. When a statute imposes a penalty, for the doing or not doing an act, and gives that penalty in part to whosoever will sue for the same, and the other part to

conveyancing. By the laws of Connecticut, it is the common practice there for the owner of land to execute a quit claim deed to a purchaser who has neither ‘possession nor pretence

A rent paid by the tenant of the freehold, by which he goes quit and free, that is, discharged from any other rent. 2 Bl. Com. 42.;

The name of a judgment rendered against a plaintiff for neglecting to prosecute his suit agreeably to law and the rules of the Penna. Pr. 84; Caines’s Pr. 102; Arch. Pr. 204; and a

as to this; with respect to this. A term frequently used to signify,as to the thing named, the law is so and so.

pleading. It is a general rule in pleading, regulating alike every form of action, that the plaintiff shall state his complaint in positive and direct terms, and not by way of reci

Engl. law. The name of a writ for tenant in tail, tenant in dower, by the curtesy, or for term of life, who having lost his lands through his default, to enable him to recover them

used substantively, signifies the number of persons belonging to a legislative assembly, a corporation, society, or other body, required to transact business; there is a difference

is that part which each one is to bear of some expense, as, his quota of this debt; that is, his roportion of such debt.

practice, is the allegation of some authority or case, passage of some law, in support of a position which it 13 desired to displaced, they are inconvenient. As to the manner of qu

remedtes. By what authority or warrant..The name of a writ issued in the name of a government against any person or corporation that usurps any franchise or office, commanding the