A Law Dictionary and Glossary

Applied to an estate, denotes the duration and extent of the tenant's interest as whether for years, for life or in fee. tain the amount of damages. Qiiantnm mernit: as much as he

In old English law. A complaint or plaint; an action; a cause of action; a controversy or debate.

A fourth part or portion. Quarter of a year: ninety-one days, the additional six hours not being regarded. In English law. Quarter sessions: a criminal court held before two or mor

In English law. The dividing of a criminal's body into quarters, after execution,— a part of the punishment for high treason.

I I. On the fourth day after; the name given to the fourth day inclusive after the return of a writ, on which, if a desufficient Otherwise called the appear- (jnash. To overthrow;

1. 1. Runs upon four feet; runs upon all fours. A term used to denote an exact correspondence, v. Nullum simile, etc.

In English law. The court of King's Bench,— so called during the reign of a queen. Queen's counsel: barristers called within the bar, and selected to be the queen's counsel, learne

1. 1. In old English law. A complaint or plaint in an action; a plaintiff's count or declaration; an action preferred in any court of justica In the civil law. A complaint A name g

qnerrel, i. /r. In old English law. A complaint; an action. ({uerens, L In old English law. A plaintiff; the plaintiff or complaining party.

I. I. In old English law. A quest; an inquest upon the oaths of an impaneled jury.

I. Who; he who. Qui adimit medium, dirimit linem: he who takes away the mean destroys the end. Qui aliqnid statuerit, parte inaudita altera, eequum licet dixerit, haud sequum fecer

I. Because; used in old sideration of a grant Quia statute of Westminster 3, should be lawful for every ure, the feoffee holding of the same services and them. Quia timet: because

Living; alive.

acquiritur doby the servant is acquired for the masacquired by an agent are acquired for his contra normam recti, est injuria: whatright is a wrong. Qnicquid in excessn whatever is

I It is doubted. Quseritur ut crescnnt tot magna TOluniina legis? In promptu causa est,— crescit in orbe dolus: the question is asked, why the volumes of the law multiply so fast?

or quiete clamantia, 1. 1 In old English law. Quitclaim.

I. I. To quit, acquit, discharge or save harmless. Quiete,/. Quietly; in quiet; peaceably. A formal word in ancient deeds.

quietum clamare, I. I. In old English law. To quitclaim; to renounce all pretension of right and title..

covenant for. A covenant whereby a grantor agrees that the grantee shall hold the land conveyed, undisturbed by himself or others.

I. I. In American law. The discharge of an executor or administrator. In English law. An acquittance or discharge; a word used by the clerk of the pipe and auditors in the excheque

quittns, 1. 1. In old English law. Quit; clear; free; acquitted; discharged. Quietus redditus: quit rent Quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introdncto, I. Any one may renounce

uemini facit injuriam: he who uses his own right harms no one. v. Non videtur, etc. Qui jussu judicis aliquod fecerit, non videtur dolo malo fecisse, quia parere necesse est: be wh

I. In old English law. Called or exacted the fifth time; a return by the sheriff after the fifth and last proclamation, in outlawry.,Quit. Free; clear; discharged; released; acquit

potior est is the better in right;, priority in Qui rationem in omnibus qusernnt, who seek a reason in [for] everything actionem renunciaverit, amplins has once relinquished his ac

I. I. In old Scots law. Quit; free, (juittos et immunes: quit and clear.

eodem modo dissolvitur, Z. In whatever way a thing is constituted, in the same way is it dissolved (a record by a record, writing by writing, parliament by parliament, parol by par

1. 1 Since the Attachments; one of the oldest

I. In whatever manner.

rannsome, I. fr. In old English law. Ransom; a fine; a severe kind of fine.

I L In old Scots law. A pecuniary satisfaction or composition for an offense, answering to the Saxon weregild; theft-bote. Rack rent A rent of the full value of the tenement, or ne

raancon, ranceonn, I fr. A ransom, or fine.

To create, or constitute; to call into existence.

sax. In Saxon and old English law. Open theft, or robbery.

In English law. A sworn officer of the forest, whose office chiefly consists in preventing and prosecuting trespasses.

Redemption from the power of another; a sum paid for such redemption; in international law, the redemption of captured property from the hands of an enemy, particularly of property

The carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will, — forcibly meaning little if anything more than without consent. In English law. An intermediate division between a s

L In old English law. To ravish.

In English law. The chief oBScer of a rape.

I. In old English law. Open and violent larceny from the person; robbery. In the civil law. The violent taking from the person of another, of money or goods for the sake of gain; r

I I. In old English law. A ravisher.

I I. In old English law. Ravished, — a technical word in old indictments.

I. I. In old English law. A rasure.

A scraping off; the removal of words from an instrument by scraping off or out

I. In the civil law. To hold a thing ratified; to ratify or confirm it.

Price, value; standard, rank; an assessment or tax. Ratitl6are, U In old English law. To ratify. Ratiilcasse: have ratified.

The confirmation of an act done either by the party himself or by another; confirmation of a voidable act

2. Jn civil and old English law. A holding as approved; approval or ratification. Ratihabitio mandato wquiparatur: rati-

1. Reason; a roason; the reason; an account; a cause. Ratio decidendi: reason for deciding; the gi-ounds of decision. Ratio legis: the reason or occasion of a law; the occasion of

^ In old English law. Reasonable, v. De rationabili; De rationabilibus.

L By reason; on account. Ratione impotentia;: on account of inability. Ratione loci: by reason of place. Ratione inateriae: from the nature of the subject Ratione persoiise: from t

In old English law. A forcible taking away, as of a ward. V. De raptu.

To erase. Re,Z./r. In old English law. King. Real, reale: royal; regal; belonging to the king. Real clif min: the royal way; the king's highway. Re, I. In the matter of; in the cas

Actual, not formal or nominal; a relating to land, or to ownership of or title to land, — a sense derived from the feudal law, in which land was more important than other things. R

I. I. In old English law. Real; relating to land.

The quality of being real, or relating to lands and tenements; things real.

Agreeable to reason; conformable to law; ordinary or usual. Reasonable care: the care which men of ordinary prudence are accustomed to employ, v. Ordinary. Reasonable cause: as app

A contract by the first insurer of property with another insurer, by which he has the entire sum he has insured, reassured to him.

v. Commission.

Ifr. That may be put or thrust back or rebutted; rebuttable,

rebonter, Z. /n To put or thrust back; to repel; to bar; to rebut. Reboter I'assise: to bar the assise.

I. The circumstances complete [yet unchanged].

To repel; to meet or counteract the effect of opposing allegations or'evidence.

A presumption which may be rebutted by evidence.

A defendant's answer of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder; the third pleading on the part of the defendant

As applied to evidence, evidence adduced on the part of a plaintiff or prosecutor to repel or counteract evidence on the part of a defendant or prisonei-; any evidence adduced to c

A retaking, or taking back; a species of remedy by act of the party injured, when one has deprived another of his property in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully detains his

potins qnain injnrite et delicta maiieant impiinita, /. Positive rules of law (as distinguished from maxims or conclusions of reason) will be receded from [given up or dispensed wi

A taking or an accepting of a thing delivered; an acknowledgment in writing of having received money, goods or other valuable consideration; an acquittance.

In old English law. The receiving or harboring of a felon knowingly.

One who receives a thing delivered; one who executes a writing witnessing such an act; a person to whom goods levied on are delivered, on his undertaking to deliver them to the she

I. fr. To receive; to admit.

One who receives and conceals stolen goods; a person appointed by a court of equity to take possession of property the subject of litigation and to care for the same, under directi

I. I. In old English law. Fresh suit, fresh pursuitpursuit of a thief immediately after discovery of the robbery. Recens secta: fresh suit

Z. t In old English law. Receiptment; the receiving or harboring of a felon.

1. 1. In old Engli.ih law. To receive; to harbor (a felon).

I. In civil and old English law. A receiver or harborer of a robber or other felon. Receptor,?. In old English law. Receiver; a receiver. Eecepto'r denariornm: receiver of moneys.

I. In old English law. A going from; a going off or out of land; egress. Recessus maris: a going back, reliction or retreat of the sea.

recettour, I. fr. In old English law. A receiver or harborer of a felon; an accessory after the fact

Z. /r. In old English law. Receiptment; the receiving and harboring of a feloa

In conveyancing, a preliminary statement in a deed or other instrument of such matters as are necessary to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; in pleading, the

I I. In old English law. A claim of right, or an appeal to law for the recovery of a right.

I. I In old English law. Has rendered himself; a term applied to a principal who rendered himself in discharge of his bail.

I I. In old English law. A renter; a tenant

I. fr. Reference; relation; reward

I. fr. and eng. In old English annexed to the land.

I. I. In old English Imp. A tri eant per forestas ad faciendum go through the forests to make regard.

In English law. A supervising

I I In old English law. Regard

I. The king not advised; to proceed in a cause which may prejudice out advising him.

I. The most ancient Scotland, commonly supposed to have David I., but shown to be not older than

I. In old English law. The royal

To record; to enter formally and for the purpose of preservation.

A repository; a place where a book kept by authority for purposes of officer authorized to keep a public record, tody of records. An entry at the place of the building of a vessel,

An officer whose business is to In English laio. An officer whose business births, marriages and deaths.

Registram Cancellarise, of writs, original and judicial, generally " The Register," and one of the most law. It is of the highest authority as to the principal foundation of the re

The registration of a vessel at the of declaring, and enabling her to assert, ing on record of deeds, mortgages and offices appointed for the purpose, in order against bona fide pu

fegrator. In old English and bought up corn or other dead victual again in the same market, or within four

In old English law. The oiiense visions in any market, and selling it again; a perquisite or allowance. law. A villein regarded as regarder. Regardatores nosregardum: our regarders

In old English law. Monks who lived secundum regulas of their respective houses or societies, as distinguished from the parochial or secular clergy.

An informer; a person in whose behalf certain writs are issued, such as attachjuents for contempt, writs of mandamus and informations in the nature of a quo warranto, etc.