Law Dictionary

Co. Litt. 205. Things which are inserted for the purpose of removing doubt hurt not the common law.

Particular clauses inserted in agreements to avoid doubts and ambiguity do not prejudice the general law. Dig. 50, 17, 81.

A worthless woman; a strumpet. The meaning of this word, which is now seldom used, is said not to be well ascertained. 2 Rolle, Abr. 296; Bac. Abr. "Slander" (U 3).

remain or continue, and in this sense is used in the last clause of the same article—"quedan anuladas y de ningun valor", remain null and of no effect.

A female sovereign.

By St. 2 Anne, c. 11, all the revenue of first fruit and tenths was vested in trustees forever, to form a perpetual fund for the augmentation of poor livings. 1 Bl. Comm. 286; 2 Bu

The wife of a reigning king. 1 Bl. Comm. 218. She is looked upon by the law as a feme sole, as to her power of contracting, suing, etc. Id.

The widow of the king. She has niost of the privileges belonging to a queen consort. 1 Bl. Comm. 229.

A royal revenue belonging to every queen consort during her marriage with the king, and due from every person who has made a voluntary fine or offer to_ the king of ten marks or up

A sovereign’s mother who is also dowager queen.

A queen ruling in her own right. See 1 Bl. Comm. 218.

She who holds the crown in her own right. She has the same duties and prerogatives, etc., as a king. St. 1 Mar. I. St. 3, c. 1; 1 Bl, Comm. 218; 1 Wooddeson, Lect. 94. QUEEN'S (or

The English court of king's bench is so called during the reign of a queen. 3 Steph. Comm. 403. QUEEN'S (or KING'S) COUNSEL. In English law. Barristers called within the bar, and s

Same as King’s counsel.

Same as King’s evidence.

The legitimation of a bastard by the subsequent marriage of his parents. Bell.

In English law. A prison appropriated to the debtors and criminals confined under process, or by authority of the superior courts at Westminster, the Marshalsea court and Palace co

A proctor or solicitor representing the crown in the former practice of the courts of probate and divorce. Moz. & W. Law Diet.,QUEEN’S REMEMBRANCER. See Remembrancer. QUERELA (Lat.

Same as King’s silver.

Which estate; whose estate.

Which is the same.

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

Just as judges do not answer questions of fact, so jurors do not answer questions of law.

In the same manner that judges do not answer to questions of fact, so jurors do not answer to questions of law. Co. Litt. 295.

A real action, by which the grantee of a rent could compel the tenants to attorn to him. QUEMADMODUM AD QUAESTIONEM fact! non respondent judices, i'ta ad quaestionem juris non resp

L. Lat. An old writ which lay where a rent-charge or other rent which was not rent service was granted by fine holding of the grantor. If the tenant would not attorn, then the gran

A writ which issues when it is necessary to remove a prisoner in order to prosecute in the proper jurisdiction wherein the fact was cominitted. 3 Bi, Comm. 130 HABEAS CCRPUS AD RES

Querens, which see.

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

A complaint; a suit.

A writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the king himself, before the king and his council. Reg. Orig. 124.

Lat In the civil law. A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the wlll, founded on the presumption of law, in BUch cases, that the p

A plaintiff.

The term "query" means the use of one or more terms to retrieve the unminimized contents or noncontents located in electronic and data storage systems of communications o

An inquisition; an inquest.

Lat. Which is the same. Words used for alleging that the trespass or other fact mentioned in the plea is the same as that laid in the declaration, where, from the circumstances, th

In Old Criminal Law. A means sometimes employed in some countries, by torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accomplices or to acknowledge their crimes. This

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

The term “questioned cost” means a cost that is questioned by the Office because of— (A) an alleged violation of a provision of a law, regulation, contract, grant, cooperative agre

Whether there be any evidence is a question for the judge; whether there be sufficient evidence is for the jury

whether certain facts do or do not constitute a ground of liability is in its nature a question of law. To leave it uncertain is to leave the law uncertain.

Questions which merely lurk in the record, neither brought to the attention of the court nor ruled upon, are not to be considered as having been so decided as to constitute precede

In a patent case in the Court of Claims under the act of 1910 the questions of validity and infringement are questions of fact.

In determining questions of general law, the federal courts, while inclining to follow the decisions of the courts of the state in which the controversy arises, are free to exercis

Whether the commission applies the legislative standards validly set up, whether it acts within the authority conferred or goes beyond it, whether its proceedings satisfy the perti

In old English law. A starter of lawsuits, or prosecutions; also a person chosen to inquire into abuses, especially such as relate to weights and measures; also a church-warden.

Lat. In Roman law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the comitia, as a kind of commission, to search out and try all cases of parricide and murder. They were pro

Same as Quaestus.

A writ of nuisance which lay against one who acquired, by descent or alienation, the thing which caused the nuisance. It was given by 15 Edw. I. Formerly only the person causing it

Lat. [L. Fr. de son tort demesne sans tiel cause.] Of his own wrong, without such cause. Formal words of traverse, used in replications in actions of trespass, and more compendious

Who.

Because.

7 Coke, 9. He who abjures the realm leaves the realm, but not the king; the country, hut not the father of the country.

He who abjures the realm, leaves the realm, but not the king; the country, but not the father of the country.

Let him who accuses be of honest reputation and not criminal.

Let him who accuses be of clear fame, and not criminal. 3 Insb 26.

He who acquires for himself acquires for his heirs.

Because it is given to. us to understand. Formal words in old writs. Rat. Pari. 4 Hen. IV. QUIA DOMINUS REMISIT CURIAM (Law Lat.) In old practice. Because the lord hath remised or

He who takes away the means destroys the end. Co. Litt. 161. QUI ALIQUID STATUERIT PARTE INaudlta altera, aequum llce't dixerit, haud aequum facerit. He who decides anything, a par

Because the lord has remitted his court, used of a writ of right sued out in the king’s court instead of that of the manor. See 3 Bl. Comm. 195.

Where it is not apparent who is the owner of goods, on that account it is not certain they are his.

The statute 18 Edward I, c. 1, abrogating subinfeudation. See 2 Bl. Comm. 91.

Because it issued erroneously, or through mistake. A term in old English practice. Yelv. 83 QUIA TIMET (Lat. because he fears). A term applied to preventive or anticipatory remedie

For the event is that which follows from the cause and they are called events because they come out of the causes.

He who decides anything without having heard the other side, though he may decide rightly, by no means has acted justly.

He who determines any matter without hearing both sides, though he may have decided right, has not done justice. 6 Coke, 52a; 4 BL Comm. 283.

EODEM jure uti debet. He who uses the right of another ought to use the same right, Poth. Tr. de Change, pt. 1, c. 4, § 114; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 421.

One who uses the right of another ought to enjoy the same right.

He who uses the right of another ought to use the same right Poth. Traite De Change, pt. 1, c. 4, § 114; Broom, Max. 473.

He who approbates does not reprobate, i. e., he cannot both accept and reject the same thing.

He who approbates does not reprobate, [i. e., he cannot both accept and reject the same thing.]

Because when anything is prohibited, that by which it is reached is also prohibited. See 5 Har. & J. (Md.) 317, 9 Am. Dec. 534.

Lat. Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice. The technical name of a bill filed by a party who seeks the uid of a court of equity, because he fears some future probable

See Bill quia timet .

A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety; a cavil.

He who distinguishes well, learns well. 2 Inst. 470. QUI BENE 1NTERR0GAT BENE DOCET. He who questions well, learns well. 3 Bulst. 227. QUI CADIT A SYLLABA CADIT A TOTA causa. He wh

He who questions well, teaches well.

He who fails in a syllable falls in his whole cause. Bract fol. 211.

Living; alive. "Quick chattels must be put in pound-overt that the owner may give them sustenance; dead need not" Finch, Law, b. 2, c. 6.

A steamer chartered to be discharged with customary "quick despatch" arrived in port, March 8th, was ordered to berth March 10th, and began to discharge March 11th at one o'clock,

A term used In charter parties to express the promptness with which the cargo will be delivered to the vessel for loading. It signifies delivery as rapidly as the vessel can receiv

In Medical Jurisprudence. The sensation a mother has of the motion of the child she has conceived. The period when quickening is first experienced varies from the tenth to the twen

The state of a woman pregnant with a quick child, i. e., a foetus which has quickened. 9 Mete. (Mass.) 263. A woman's condition from the time of conception and the commencement of

Lat. The coging fine. fs cut cognoscitur, the cog- 3H. In Seoteh law. The period of the tion of a tack or lease. 1 Bligh, 522.

CONCEDERE videtur et Id sine quo concessio est irrita, sine quo res ipsa esse non potult. He who grants anything is considered as granting that without which his grant would be idl

He who grants anything is deemed to grant also that without which the grant is idle, without which the thing itself cannot be.

He who confirms does not give. 2 Bouv. Inst, note 2069. precept contemns the party giving it. 12 Coke, 96.

He who contemns a precept, contemns the preceptor.

Whatever. Quioquid plantatur solo, solo cedit Whatever is planted in the soil belongs to the soil. Every thing annexed to the soil in a permanent manner goes with the soil; the own

ACquirltur domino. Whatever,1s acquired by the servant is acquired for the master. 15 Viner, Abr. 327. QUICQUID DEMONSTRATAE REI ADDItur satis demonstratae frustra est. Whatever is

Whatever is acquired by the servant is acquired by the master.

Whatever ls added to demonstrate anything already sufficiently demonstrated is surplusage. Dig. 33, 4, 1, 8; Broom, Max. 630.

Whatever is added to the description of a thing which is sufficiently described is without effect.

Whatever is contrary to the rule of right is wrong.

lege prohibitur. Whatever is done in excess is prohibited by law. 2 Inst. 107. QUICQUID JUDICIS AUCTORITATI SUB- Jicitur novitati non subjicitur. Whatever is subject to the authori

Whatever is done in excess is forbidden by law.

2 Inst. 107. Whatever is done in excess is prohibited by law.

Whatever is subject to judicial authority is not subject to novelty.

SOLO cedit. Whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to it. Wentw. Off. Ex'r, 145; Ambl. 113; 3 East, 51. See "Fixtures,"

Whatever is planted in the soil belongs to the soil. See 74 N. J. L. 810, 12 Ann. Cas. 1086, 14 L. R. A. (N. S.) 439, 68 Atl. 162.