Quale jus

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A writ ordering an investigation of a judgment in a clerk’s favor to prevent evasion of the statutes of mortmain.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A judicial writ, which lay where a man of religion had judgment to recover land before execution was made of the judgment

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat.

In old English law. A judicial writ, which lay where a man of religion had judgment to recover land before execution was made of the judgment. It went forth to the escheator between judgment and execution, to inquire what right the religious person had to recover or whether the judgment were obtained by the collusion of the parties, to the intent that the lord might not be defrauded. Reg. Jud. 8.

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

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

I. An old judicial writ right a clerk had recovered a judgment statutes of mortmaiin. ■were not evaded.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

What sort of right. The name of an old English writ which lay where an ecclesiastical person had recovered judgment for lands, but had not issued execution, to inquire by what right he was thus proceeding. The object was to search out any collusion between the parties by which, according to Jacob, the lord might be defrauded, or, according to Burrill, the statute of mortmain might be evaded.