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Quia

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Because.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat Because; whereas; inasmuch an.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. Because; used in old sideration of a grant Quia statute of Westminster 3, should be lawful for every ure, the feoffee holding of the same services and them. Quia timet: because a party who seeks the aid probable injury to his rights In old English law. Quia given to us to understand. the lord hath remised or sion of a writ of right court Quia erronice through mistake. Quia improvidently, or unadvisedly.

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

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

I. Because. Quia dominus remisit lord has remitted liis court): a phrase used writ of right brought originally in the King's the manorial court. Quia emptores: minster III., 18 Edw. 1. c. 1, by which gated; providing that owners of freehold their lands, but that the grantee should mount, as did the grantor, and by the erronice emanavit: because it issued met: V. Bill, I. 14. Quicquid plantatur solo solo cedit, I. the soil belongs thereto. Quicquid solvitur dum modum solventis: whatever is paid cording to the intention of the payer; v.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Because. In the Latin forms of conveyances, quia was used as the apt word to introduce the consideration; in the same manner as si, to introduce a condition, and ut, the modus of the grant. Quia emptores. Because purchasers. The initial words of the statute of Westminster 3 (18 Edw. I. ch. 1), regulating sales of lands and tenements; which is hence called the statute quia emptores. The statute 18 Edw. I. ch. 1, called the statute quia emptores, took from the tenants of common lords the feudal liberty they claimed of disposing of part of their lands to hold of themselves, and instead of it gave them a general liberty to sell all or any part, to hold of the next superior lord, which they could not have done before without consent. ( Wright's Ten. 161; 4 simple estates; and to put an end to the creation of any new manors, !.e. tenancies in fee-simple of a subject. Brown, Quia timet. Because he fears. The technical name of a bill in equity. See Bill quia timet.