Querela
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Bouvier (1839)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
1. 1.
In old English law. A complaint or plaint in an action; a plaintiff's count or declaration; an action preferred in any court of justica In the civil law. A complaint A name given to the three actions of querela inofflciosi testamenti, querela inofficiosce donationis, and querela inofficiosm dotis. Querela inofflciosi testamenti: a complaint of an inofficious or undutiful will; a species of action allowed to a child unjustly disinherited in its parent's will, to rescind the will, as not consistent with parental duty.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Atjdiee, Audita.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
/. A plaint, count; a lawsuit.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
An action prefercomplainant, and his brief, complaint, or declaration, was called querela. Jacob’s Dict. h. t.