Law Dictionary

qnarentine or quarentene. The period of forty days; the time during which a widow may remain in the chief house of her husband after his death, pending; assignment of dower. The ti

querel, /. fr. In old English law. A complaint or suit

I. fr. In old English law. The fourth part of a day.

A tax or duty on personalty. Cowell; Spel. Gloss.

I. Of whom; whereof. The word has In modern law become a substantive, used in the titles of justices of the peace, and thence as an ordinary word, to denote a certain number of per

In old English lair. A duty, work or service of mowing grass, or cutting meadow land, required by a lord from his customary tenant. Consuetudo falcandi qua vacatur gavelmed. Somner

Queen’s bench, which see.

93; 49 J. P. 246. He must in fact be seen hanging about the street. 1 Times Rep. 109. FREQUENTIA ACTUS MULTUM OPEratur. The frequency of an act effects much. 4 Coke, 78; Wingate, M

681.

667. See Marriage.

CIS), or because he has a lien upon it.” Steph. Dig. Ev. art. 11S. This is stated as the English rule, but in this country it is said that the weight of authority confines the excu

1. A covenant to provide team work does not oblige a lessee to find the instruments necessary for its performance; id. hire. Elder v. Williams, 10 Nev. 416; Brusle; v. Griffith, 34

476; 23 id. 59S; [1S92] A. C. 25; [1893] 1 Q. B. 715; Toledo Ry. Co. v. Penn. Co., 54 Fed. 730, 19 L E. A. 387; Carew v. Rutherford, 106 Mass. 1, 8 Am. Rep. 287; Sherry v. Perkins,

241; 16 Q. B. 832. The same rule is adopted in some states in certain cases in which the offense was necessarily a joint one committed by two persons; Turpin v. State, 4 Blackf. (I

50S. Where a company had power "to issue bonds, debentures, or mortgage debentures," which would entitle holders to be paid pari passu out of the company's property, evidences of d

(C. A.) 521. See, also, the Merchants’ Shipping Act, 1894. In the United States, in case of a collision on the high seas between ships of different nationalities, the general marit

40. The requirements of the act of 1912 that certain information be given to the postmaster general and that all paid for newspaper matter be marked advertisement, under penalty of

345. • mortgage on real estate In New York Is merely a chose in action and gives the mortgagee merely a lien on the property; ][n re Kellogg, U3 Fed. 120; and it “is now almost uni

679.

730; 3 M. & S. 67; 2 Lind. Part. *711, 816.

Queen’s counsel, which see.

An abbreviation of qtiare clausum fregit. See "Trespass." Q. V. Quod vide, which see. Used after the mention of a title, chapter, etc., to refer the reader thereto. QAR (Law Ft.) F

Quod, which see.

The term “QDR 2001 combatant surface force risk assessment” means the risk assessment associated with a force of combatant surface vessels numbering 116 that is set forth in the re

An abbrevlation of "quare exe-cu(ionem non," wherefore execution [shouid] not [be issued.]

Those (statutes) which derogate from the common law are strictly interpreted.

I. Although. Quamvis aliquid per se men si sit mali exempli, non est faciendum: may not be bad in itself, yet, if it is of bad done. Qnamvis lex generaliter loquitur, est, nt, cess

I Of how much less; ' what reduction.

A writ against a patron for refusal to present a nominated clerk.

I I. In old English and Scots law. Qnarentine; widow's quarentine. v. Quarentine.

I. fr. To quash. Qnasse: quashed.

Inquiry; interrogation; an interrogation put to a witness; a subject of inquiry. v. Federal question; Leading question. In old English law. The rack used to extort confession from

He who loses by a syllable loses by a whole cause.

I Whatever. mino: whatever is acquired ter; whatever rights are principal. Qnicquid est ever is against the rule of actum est, lege prohibetur: by law. Quicquid judicis snbjicitnr:

qnietantia, I. I. In old English law. A quittance, acquittance.

I. In old English law. The Cinque Ports.

quinzime, I. fr. and eng. In old English law. A fifteenth; a tax so called.

To acquit; to exonerate.

/. Of how many kinds; of how many fold.

An abbreviation for "Quarter Sessions,"

An abbreviation of "qui tam,"

As; in the character or capacity of. "The judge qua judge cannot know." Vaughan, 147.

i 1. The period of forty days. The time during ^hich a widow may remain in her husband's chief " mansionhouse" after his death, and until her dower is assigned her.2 This right was

2 Burrows, 693. Things which are token from enemies immediately become the property of the captors.

An institution which was at the beginning of no use or force cannot acquire force from after matter. Dig. 50, 17, 210.

Things which hold the place of accessaries are extinguished when the principal things are destroyed. 2 Poth. Obi. 202; Broom, Max. 496.

One who, without sufficient knowledge, study, or previous preparation, undertakes to practice medicine or surgery, under the pretense that he possesses secrets in those arts. • The

Whichever way it is considered.

Vol. Ill of the YearBooks.

The first Sunday in Lent.

Offerings formerly made, on Mid-Lent Sunday, to the mother church.

The third volume of the Year Books of the reign of Edward IIL So called, because beginning with the fortieth year of the reign. Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 327; Hale, Hist. Com. Law, c.

A quarter part.

In angular measures, a quadrant is equal to ninety degrees. See "Measure." QUADRANTALIS (Law Lat.; from quadrans, q. v.) In old English law. Of the value or price of a quarter or f

In old English law. A measure of land, variously described as a quarter of an acre or the fourth part of a yard-land.

A fourth of an acre.

In old records. A stone-pit or quarry. Cowell.

Lat. In the civil law. The four-years course of study required to be pursued by law-students before they were qualified to study the Code or collection of imperial constitutions. S

In Scotch law. The term of four years allowed to a minor, after his majority, in which he may by suit or action endeavor to annul any deed to his prejudice, granted during his mino

Being in four parts; having four parties.

The name of an Anglo-Latin legal treatise. The two extant books were completed in 1114. The compiler was a secular clerk who entered into relations with the archbishop of York; his

The term “quadriplegia” means the complete and irreversible paralysis of all four limbs.

A person who is descended from a white person and another person who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood. 2 Bailey (S. C.) 558. See "Mulatto."

Informers among the Homans, who, if their information were followed by conviction, had the fourth part of the conliscated goods for their trouble.

Lat. In the civll law. A pleading on the part of a defendant, corresponding to the rebutter at common law. The third pleading on the part of the defendant Inst. 4, 14, 3; 3 Bl. Com

In pleading. For-

STAtim capientium fiunt. Things taken from public enemies immediately become the property of the captors. Inst. 2. 1. 17; Grotius de Jure Belli, lib. 3, c. 6, § 12. QUAE AB INITIO

Whatever things are taken from enemies immediately become the property of the captors.

An institution which was void from the beginning cannot be cured by a subsequent act.

EX post facto convalescere non possunt. Things invalid from the beginning cannot be made valid by subsequent act. Tray. Lat. Max. 482. QUAE ACCESSIORIUM LOCUM OBTInent, extinguuntu

Those things which are not valid in the beginning cannot be cured by a subsequent act.

When the principal things have been annihilated, those things which hold the position of incidents to them are extinguished.

Things which have jbeen said to one purpose ought not to be twisted to another.

4 Coke, 14. Those words which are spoken to one end ought not to be perverted to another.

Things invalid from the beginning cannot be made valld by subsequent act. Tray. Lat Max. 482.

Those things which are connected with the person ought not to be separated from the person.

[Statutes] which derogate from the common law are strictly interpreted. Jenk. Cent. p. 221, case 72.

Those things which have been introduced contrary to the reason of the law ought not to be drawn into precedent.

Whatever comes within the reason of the law is adjudged to be within the law itself.

Those things which are introduced for the purpose of removing doubt do not offend the common law.

Those matters which are inserted in contracts for the purpose of removing doubt do not offend the common law.

Which is the same matter.

Those things which ought not to be done, when done, may bo valid.

Those things which are done forthwith and also certainly are deemed to be included.

Those things which are done in court are presumed to be done rightly.

Those things which are done in the king’s court are presumed to be rightly done.

Those things which cannot be divided into parts are performed by each one as a whole.

Things which are done between others are bound to injure no one, but can benefit him.

6 Coke, 1. Transactions between strangers ought to hurt no man, but may benefit

Things which are so written in a will that they cannot be understood are just as if they had not been written.

Those things which derogate from the common law are not to be drawn into precedent.

Those things which derogate from the common law are strictly construed.

Every grant of our lord the’ king ought to be taken strictly against our lord the king, when it can be understood in two ways.

3 Leon. 248. Every grant of our lord the king ought to be taken strictly aguinst our lord the king, when it can he understood in two ways.

Every grant is construed most strongly against the grantor. See 7 Met. (Mass.) 516.

Every grant is to be interpreted most strongly against the grantor. Co. Litt 183a.

Every jurisdiction has its own limits.

Every pardon ought to be taken according to the intention of the king and not to the king’s deception.

quamvis minima, major est qualibet poena pecuniarla. Every corporal punishment, although the very least, is greater than any pecuniary punishment. 3 Inst. 220.

Every corporal punishment, even the least, is greater than any pecuniary punishment.