Questus Est Nobis

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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 was liable. Cowell. QUI ABJURAT REGNUM AMITTIT REGnum, sed non regem; patrlam, sed non patrem patriae. He who abjures the realm leaves the realm, but not the king; the country, but not the father of the country. 7 Coke, 9. QUI ACCUSAT INTEGRAE FAMAE SIT et non criminosus. Let him who accuses be of clear fame, and not criminal. 3 Inst. 26. QUI ACQUIRIT SIBI ACQUIRIT HAEREdibus. He who acquires for himself acquires for his heirs. Tray. Lat. Max. 496.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A writ of nuisance against one who had acquired land with a nuisance thereon.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 Edw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated; whereas, before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caused the nuisance to the damage of his neighbor. Cowell.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat. A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 Edw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caused the nuisance to the damage of his neighbor. Cowell.

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

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. (From Queror.) He us. An old writ of nuisance agaiust him levying [erecting] the nuisance had conveyed