Quod Voluit Non Dixit

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

He did not say what he intended to. 1 Kent, Comm. 468, note; 4 Maule & S. 522, arg.; 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 235. QUODCUNQUE ALIQUIS OB TUTELAM corporis suit fecerit jure id fecisse videtur. Whatever one does in defense of his person, that he is considered to have done legally. 2 Inst. 590. QUODQUE DISSOLVITUR EODEIVI MOdo quo ligatur. In the same manner that a thing is bound, it is unbound. 2 Ro Ue, 39; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 788; 2 Man. & G. 729. QUOMODO QUID C0NSTITU1TUR EOdem modo dissolvitur. In whatever mode a thing is constituted, in the same manner is it dissolved. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 74. QUONIAIVI ATTACH l AlVlENTA (Law Lat.) Since the attachments. One of the oldest books in the Scotch law; so called from the two first words of the volume. Bell, Diet. Still sometimes cited in argument, in the Scotch courts. 7 Wilson & S. 9.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

What he desired to say, he did not say.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

What he intended he did not say or express. An answer semetimes made in overruling an argument that the law-maker or testator meant so and se. 1 Kent, Comm. 468, note; Mann v. Mann's Exits, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 235.