Legal Term: QUARE

Definition: pleadings. Wherefore. This word is sometimes used in the writ in certain actions, but is inadmissible in a material averment in the pleadings, for it is merely interrogatory and, therefore, when a declaration began with complaining of the defendant, ",wherefore with force, &,c. he broke and entered", the plaintiffs close, was considered ill. Bac. Ab. Pleas, B 5, 4, Gould on Pl. c. 3, 34.

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