This term is applied to such bodies or municipal socie-ties, which, though not vested with the general powers of corporations, are yet recognized by s...
civil law. An act whereby a person, without malice, but by fault, negligence or imprudence not legally excusable, causes injury to another. 2. A quasi...
ich they are employed, teachers and artisans, for the damage caused by their scholars and apprentices, while under their superintendence. In the above...
Partners of lands, goods, or chattels, who are not actual partners, are sometimes so called. Poth. De Societe, App. n. 184. Vide Part owners....
civil law. One who, born during the life of his grand father, or other male ascendant, was not his heir at the time he made his testament, but who by ...
This term is used in the civil law to denote that a thing is to be considered as purchased from the presumed consent of the owner of the thing, as, if...
civil law. A term used to designate that a person is in the use of the property of another, which the latter suffers and does not oppose. Lec. Elein. ...
Among the Romans these were magistrates who had the care and inspection of roads. Dig. 1, 2, 3, 30....
estates. A wharf at which to load or land goods, sometimes spelled key. 2. In its enlarged sense the word quay, means the whole space between the firs...
Which is the same. Vide Quce est eadem....
These words literally translated signify quem statum, or which estate. At common law, it is a plea by which a man prescribes in himself and those whos...
A worthless woman a strumpet. The meaning of this word, which is now seldom used, is said not to be well ascertained. 2 Roll. Ab. 296 Bac. Ab. Stander...
There are several kinds of queens in some countries. 1. Queen regnant, is a woman who possesses in her own right the executive power of the country. 2...
An action preferred in any court of justice, in which the plaintiff was called querens or complainant, and his brief, complaint, or declaration, was c...
punishment, crm. law. A means sometimes employed, in some countries, by means of torture, to compel supposed great criminals to disclose their accompl...
evidence. An interrogation put to a witness, requesting him to declare the truth of certain facts as far as he knows them. 2. Questions are either gen...
practice. A point on which the parties are not agreed, and which is submitted to the decision of a judge and jury. 2. When the doubt or difference ari...
civil law. A name which was given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. One of which was called quaestores classici, and the other quaestores par...
remedies. Who as well. When a statute imposes a penalty, for the doing or not doing an act, and gives that penalty in part to whosoever will sue for t...
pleadings. Because. This word is considered a term of affirmation. It is sufficiently direct and positive for introducing a material averment. 1 Saund...
A name sometimes given to the English Statute of Westminster, 3, 13 Edw. I., c. 1, from its initial words. 2 Bl. Com. 91....
a anticipantia, writs of prevention.", Co. Litt. 100 and see 7 Bro. P. C. 12 5. 2. These writs are generally obsolete. In chancery, when it is contemp...
A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety, a cavil. 2. No justly eminent member of the bar will resort to a quibble in his argument. I...
med. jurisp. The motion of the foetus, when felt by the mother, is called quickening, and the mother is then said to be quick with child. 1 Becks Med....
This phrase signifies verbatim, what for what. It is applied to the consideration of a contract. See Co. Litt. 47, b, 7 Mann. &, Gr. 998....
French law. Some, one, somebody. This Latin word is used to express an unknown person, or one who cannot be named. 2. A quidam is usually described by...
In leases there are frequently covenants by which the lessor agrees that the lessee shall peaceably enjoy the premises leased, this is called a covena...
Eng. law. A discharge, an acquittance. 2. It is an instrument by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors in the exchequer, as proof of their acquittance o...
A weight of one hundred pounds...
Eng. law. The fifth call or last requisition of a defendant sued to outlawry....
conveyancing. By the laws of Connecticut, it is the common practice there for the owner of land to execute a quit claim deed to a purchaser who has ne...
contracts. A release or acquittal of a man from all claims which the releasor has against him....
A rent paid by the tenant of the freehold, by which he goes quit and free, that is, discharged from any other rent. 2 Bl. Com. 42. 2. In England, quit...
The intent, the mind with which a thing has been done, as, the quo animo with which the words were spoken may be shown by the proof of conversations o...
The name of a writ. In England, when the kings debtor is sued in the court of the exchequer, he may sue out a writ of quo minus, in which he suggests ...
remedies. By what authority or warrant. The name of a writ issued in the name of a government against any person or corporation that usurps any franch...
As to this, with respect to this. A term frequently used to signify, as to the thing named, the law is so and so....
The name of an interlocutory judgment in an action of account render: also the name of a decree in the case of creditors bills against executors or ad...
and not by way of recital. ",For that,", is a positive allegation, ",for that whereas,", in Latin ",quod cum,", is a recital 2. Matter of inducement m...
Engl. law. The name of a writ given by Stat. Westmin. 2, 13 Edw. I. c. 4, to the owners of a particular estate, as for life, in dower, by the curtesy,...
Engl. law. That he permit. The name of a writ which lies for the heir of him who is disseised of his common of pasture, against the heir of the dissei...
Engl. law. That he give leave to demolish. The name of a writ which commands the defendant to permit the plaintiff to abate the nuisance of which comp...
The name of a judgment upon an indictment for a nuisance, that the defendant abate such nuisance....
That he recover. The form of a judgment that the plaintiff do recover. See Judgment quod recuperet....
Used substantively, quorum signifies the number of persons belonging to a legislative assembly, a corporation, society, or other body, required to tra...
Scotch law. The twentieth part of the movables, computed without computation of debts, was so called. 2. Formerly the bishop was entitled, in all conf...
That part which each one is to bear of some expense, as, his quota of this debt, that is, his proportion of such debt....
practice. The allegation of some authority or case, or passage of some law, in support of a position which it is desired to establish. 2. Quotations w...
rights. The transcript of a part of a book or writing from a book or paper into another. 2. If the quotation is fair, aud not so extensive as to extra...
A Latin adverb, which signifies how long, how far, until. 2. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Co. 41.3. In practice it is the...
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