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Quacunque via data

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Whichever way it is considered.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat. Whichever way you take it.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. Whichever view be takeu (way be given). Quae ad unum finem locuta sunt non debent ad alium detorqueri, /. [Words] which are spoken to one end ought not to be perverted to another. Quae est eadem (which is the same): words used in pleas of justification of trespass, alleging that the trespass justified is the same as that of which the plaintiff complains. Quae fieri non debent, facta valent: things which ought not to be done [may yet] be valid when done. Quae in testamento ita sunt scripta, ut intelligi non possint, perinde sunt ac si scripta non essent: things which are so written in a will as not to be intelhgible are as if not written at all. Quae nihil frustra: which [requires] notliiug [to be done] in vain. Quae non valeant singula, juncta, juvant: [words] which, taken singly, are inoperative, are valid if taken together. Quae plura: a writ like a melius inquirendum, but issuing when the escheator had proceeded virtute officii, not by diem clausit extremum. Quaelibet ooncessio fortissime contra donatorem interpretanda est, I. Every is to be interpreted most strongly Qu^re,;. Inquire; question, doubt.