Quousque

A Latin adverb, which signifies how long, how far, until. In old conveyances, it is used as a word of limitation.

10 Coke, 41.

In practice, it is the name of an execukind is the capias ad satisfaoiendum, by virtue of -which the body of the defendant is taken into execution, and he is imprisoned until he shall satisfy the execution.

3 Bouv. Inst, note 3371.

QUOVIS MODO (Lat.) In whatever manner.

10 East, 476.

QUUM (Lat.) When. QUUM DE LUCRO QUORUM QUAERAtur, melior est conditio possidentis. When the gain of one of two is in question, the condition of the possessor is the better.

Dig. 50. 17. 126. 2.

QUUM IN TESTAMENTOAMBIGUEAUT etiam perperam scriptum est, benigne interpretari et secundum id quod credibile et cogitatum, credendum est. When In a will an ambiguous or even an erroneous expression in accordance with what is thought the probable meaning of the testator.

Dig. 34. 5. 24; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 437.

See Brissonius, "Perperam." QUUM (CUM) PRINCIPALIS CAUSA non conslstit ne ea quidem quae sequuntur locum liabent. When the principal does not hold its ground, neither do the accessories find place.

Dig. 50. 17. 129. 1; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 438; 1 Poth. Obi. 413.

QUUM QUOD AGO NON VALET UT ago, valeat quantum valere potest. When what I do is of no force as to the purpose for which I do it, let it be of force to as great a degree as it can.

1 Vent. 216.