Quotation

The listed price bid, offered, or paid for properties or commodities currently dealt in. QUOTIENS DUBIA INTERPRETATIO Llbertatis est, secundum libertatem responde/idum erit. Whenever there is a doubt between liberty and slavery, the decision must be in favor of liberty.

Dig. 50. 17. 20.

QUOTIENS IDEM SERMO DUAS SENtentias exprimit, ea potissimum exclpiatur, quae rei gerendae aptior est. Whenever the same words express two meanings, that is to be taken which is the better fitted for carrying out the proposed end.

Dig. 50. 17. 67.

QUOTIES IN STIPULATIONIBUS AMbigua oratio est, commodlssimum est id accipi quo res -de quo agitur, In tuto sit. Whenever in stipulations the expression is ambiguous, it is most proper to give it that interpretation by which the subject matter may be in safety.

Dig. 41. 1. 80; Id. 50. 16. 219.

QUOTIES IN VERBIS NULLA EST AIVIbiguitas ibi nulla expositio contra verba fienda est. When there is no ambiguity in the words, then no exposition contrary to the words is to be made.

Co. Litt. 147; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 850.

QUOTUPLEX (Lat.) Of how many kinds; of how many fold. A term of frequent occurrence in Sheppard's Touchstone.

Shep. Touch. 37, 50, 117, 160 et passim.