Law Dictionary

2 Inst. 479. That which appears not ls not; and nothing appears judicially before judgment.

That which appears not is not, and nothing appears judicially prior to judgment.

The treasury takes what the church does not take.

What Christ [the church] does not take the treasury takes. Goods of a felo de se go to the king. A maxim in old English law. Yearb. P. 19 Hen. VI. L

Which was not denied.

That which has no beginning has no end.

Wing. Max. 19; Co.. Litt. 345a. That which has not beginning has not end.

NON CREDITUR. What is not read is not believed. 4 Coke, 304.

That is not believed which is not read.

CAPIT QUOD NON FUIT NEGATUM (Law Lat. which was not denied). A phrase found in the old reports. Latch, 213. Otherwise stated quod nemo negavit, which no one denied. QUOD NON HABET

IN accessoria seu consequentia non valebit; et quod non valet in magis propinquo, non valebit in magis remote. What is not good as to things principal will not be good as to access

8 Coke, 78. That which is not good against the principal will not be good as to accessories or consequences; and that which Is not of force in regard to things near it wlll not be

That which is not valid as to the principal matter is not valid as to the accessory or consequential matter; and that which is not valid as to the more proximate matter is not vali

Which note; of which take notice.

Which note; which maria A reporter's note in the old books, directing attention to a point or rule. Dyer, 23.

No agreement is effective to bring it about that that which can belong to no one shall become the property of someone.

EST DOMINI REgis. That which belongs to nobody belongs to our lord the king. Fleta, lib. 3; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 317; Bac. Abr. "Prerogative" (B); 2 Bl. Comm. 260. QUOD

That which belongs to no one is the property of our lord the king.

That which belongs to no one, by natural reason is yielded to the occupier thereof.

That which is a nullity, produces no effect.

AB OMNIBUS debet supportari. That which concerns all ought to be supported by all. 3 How. St. Tr. 818, 1087.

That which affects all ought to be supported by all.

^Lat. that the parties do replead). The form of the judgment on award of a repleader. 2 Salk. 579,

See "Judgment."

NON EST PRO EC, quasi sit. What is in suspense is considered as not existing during such suspense. Pig. 50. 17. 169. 1.

That which is pending just as if it were nonexistent.

What I cannot do by myself, I cannot by another. 4 Coke, 24b; 11 Coke, 87a.

NEC PER alium. What I cannot do in person, I can- QUOD PER RECORDUM PROBATUM not! debet esse negatum. What is proved by the record ought not to be denied. QUOD PERM ITT AT (Lat.) I

That which I cannot do myself, I cannot do through another.

A writ commanding the defendant to permit the plaintiff to enjoy his common as he onght. See 3 Bl. Comm. 240.

A writ to cause one to permit the abatement of a nuisance.

That which is proved by the record ought not to be denied.

A writ which lay for spiritual persons, distrained in their spiritual possessions, for payment of a fifteenth with the rest of the parish. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 175. Obsolete.

Id jus ratum esto. What the people have last enacted, let that be the established law. 1 Bl. Comm. 89. QUOD PRIMUM EST INTENTIONE UUtimum est in operatione. That which is first in

What the people have last commanded, let that be the settled law. See 12 Allen (Mass.), 434.

That which is first in intention is last in operation. Bac. Max.

What is first in intention is last in operation.

LEGIS HAbet vigorem; utpote cum lege regia, quae de imperio ejus lata est, populus el et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem conferat. The will of the emperor has the force of

That which has pleased the prince has the force of law. The emperor's pleasure has the force of law. Dig. 1, 4, 1; Inst. I 2, 6. A celebrated maxim of imperial law.

That which pleases the ruler has the force of law. See 71 Kan. 206, 70 L. R. A. 971, 80 Pac. 571.

That which pleases the prince has the force of law; since by the royal law, which has been promulgated concerning his supreme power, the people have conferred upon him all of its a

That which is prior is the more true, and that which is prior in time is more powerful in law.

8 Coke, 48. That which is lawful as to the minor is lawful as to the major.

That which is lawful in respect to a less thing, is lawful as to a greater.

A judgment ordering the abatement of a nuisance.

That which is entirely due is due on the present day.

That which is due unconditionally is due now. Tray. Leg. Max. 519.

A thing is released in the same manner in which it is bound.

Anyone who incurs loss from his own fault is deemed not to have incurred loss.

Let every one employ himself in what he knows. 11 Coke, 10.

Let each employ himself in that which he understands.

That which one has given, knowing it not to be due, with the intention of redemanding it, he cannot recover bach. Dig. 12', 6, 50.

That which anyone has given, knowing that it is not due, with the intent that he shall afterward recover it, he cannot recover.

See Judgment Quod Recuperet.

See Judgment quod recuperet .

That he go thence exonerated foreever and that the plaintiff be in mercy.

That which is without remedy avails of itself, if there be no fault in the party seeking to enforce it. Broom, Max. 212.

That which lacks a remedy is valid in itself if there is no fault.

Which they received for safe keeping.

Legislators pass over what happens [only] once or twice. Dig. 1, 3, 6; Broom, Max. 46.

Legislators ignore that which has happened but once or twice.

That which is once mine cannot be mine more completely.

That which has once satisfied one in making his election he cannot thereafter be displeased with.

amplius displicere non potest. That which, in making his election, a man has once been pleased to choose, he cannot afterwards quarrel with. Co. Litt. 146. QUOD SI CONTINGAT (Law L

Which, if it happens.

That which is built into the soil goes with the soil. See 16 Mass. 449.

That the prohibition stand.

That which is granted or reserved under a certain form cannot be twisted into a valuation or compensation.

What is understood is not wanting. 2 Ld. Raym. 832. QUOD TACITE INTELLIGITUR DEESSE non vi'detur. What is tacitly understood does not appear to be wanting. 4 Coke, 22.

That which is silently understood is not deemed to be lacking.

What ls tacitly understood ls not considered to be wanting. 4 Coke, 22o.

LEX non requirit. The law does not require what is vain and useless. Co. Litt. 319. consequentias. Bnt that which has been admitted contrary to the reason of the law ought not to b

The law does not require what is vain and useless.

That which has in truth been received against the reason of the law, is not to be twisted into a precedent.

Which see, abbreviated q. v.

He did not say what he intended to. 1 Kent, Comm. 468, note; 4 Maule & S. 522, arg.; 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 235. QUODCUNQUE ALIQUIS OB TUTELAM corporis suit fecerit jure id fecisse v

WRIT OF. In English law. The name of a writ commanding the defendant to show by what right he demands common of pasture in the land of the complainant who claims to have a fee in t

EO DISSOLVITUR. By the same mode by which a thing is bound, by that is it released. 2 Ro Ue, 21. QUO MINUS (Lat.) The name of a writ. In England, when the king's debtor is sued in

EO DISSOLVITUR. As a thing is bound, so it is unbound. 2 Rolle, 21.

By that by which it is bound it is released.

By which not. A technical term representing inability to pay one's debt to the king, by which fiction the plaintiff secured jurisdiction in the exchequer. See 3 Bl. Comm. 46.

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

In that manner in which it is created, it may be destroyed.

Jenk. Cont. 74. In the same manner by which anything is constituted by that it is dissolved.

By the means by which it is constituted, it is by the same means dissolved.

In that manner in which it is created, in the same manner it may be destroyed.

In that manner in which it is created, it may be destroyed.

^ftoerly; former: as, a person quondam infanT^

(Since the attachments.) One of the oldest books in the Scotch law. So called from the two first words of the volume. Jacob; Whishaw.

The term “quorum” means a majority of the Committee members.

JUSTICES OF THE. The ancient commissions to justices of the peace ran; “ Assignavimus etiam vos et quolibet duos vel plures nostrum (quorum aliquem vc strum A, B, C, D, etc., unum

NEC AUGET nee minuit sententlam, sed tantum conflrmat only confirms that which went before. Plowd. 52.

Plowd. 52. "Quorum prceteip-tu" neither increases nor diminishes a sentence, but only confirms that which went before.

One of the quorum. In England it was formerly the practice to appoint certain justices of the peace, one of whom must be present for the transaction of certain business, such justi

In Scotch law. The twentieth part of the movables, computed without computation of debts, was so called. Formerly the bishop was entitled, in all confirmations, to the quot of the

A proportionate share of anything required to be paid, supplied, or furnished.

any immigrant who is not a nonquota immigrant.

A wholesaler who compels a retailer to buy an unwanted inventory as a condition to acquisition of needed articles exacts a 'quota' from the retailer and excludes sales by competing

The listed price bid, offered, or paid for properties or commodities currently dealt in. QUOTIENS DUBIA INTERPRETATIO Llbertatis est, secundum libertatem responde/idum erit. Whenev

Whenever the construction of liberty is doubtful, it shall be resolved in favor of liberty.