Qui non improbat, approbat
3 Inst. 27. He who does not blame, approves.
Terms beginning with "Q" (105 total)
QUI NON PROPULSAT
Qui non propulsat injuriam quando potest, infert. Jenk. Cent. 271. He who does not repel an injury when he can, induces it.
QUI NON. PROHIBET
by command of one exercising judicial authority, the law will not suppose that he acted from any wrongful or improper motive, because it was his bounden duty to obey. 10
Qui omme dicit nihil excludit
4 Inst. 81. He who says all excludes nothing.
Qui per fraudem agit frustra agit
2 Rolle, 17. What a man does fraudulently he does in vain.
QUI TAM
Lat. “Who‘as well ———.” An action brought by an informer, under &A statute which establishes a penalty for the commission or omission of a certain act, and provides that the same shall be recoverable in a civ...
QUIA DATUM
once relinquished his action cannot bring it again. 8 Coke, 59a. <A rule descriptive of the effect of a retraavit and nolle prosequi.
QUIA DATUM EST NOBIS IFTELLI
GI. Because it is given to us to understand Formal words in old writs,
QUIA EMPTORES
QUIA EMPTORES. “Because the purchasers.” The title of the statute of Westm. 3 (8 Edw. Lc. 1) This statute took from the tenants of common lords the feudal liberty they claimed of disposing of part of their lands to h...
QUIA ERRONICE EMANAVIT. Be
cause it issued erroneously, or through mistake. A term in old English practice. Yel. 83.
QUIA TIMET
Lat. Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice. The technical name of a Dill filled by a party who seeks the aid of a court of equity, because he fears some future probable injury to his rights or interests. 2 S...
QUIDAM
Lat. Somebody. This term is used in the French law to designate a person whose name is not known.
QUIET
Quioguid judicis auctoritati subjicitur novitati non subjicitur. Whatever is subject to the authority of a judge is not subject to innovation. 4 Inst. 66. him either to establish his claim or be forever after estopped f...
QUIETARE
L. Lat. To quit, acquit, discharge, or save harmiess. A formal word in old deeds of donation and other conveyances. Cowell.
QUIETE CLAMARE
L. Lat. To quitclaim or renounce all pretensions of right and title. Bract. fols. 1, 5.
QUIETUS REDDITUS
law. Quitrent. Spelman.
Quin
(or Quincy). Quincy’s Massachusetts Reports.
QUINTAL, or KINTAL
one hundred pounds. Cowell.
QUIRITARIAN OWNERSHIP. In Ko
man law. Ownership held. by a title recognized by the municipal law, in an object also recognized by that law, and in the strict character of a Roman citizen. “Roman law orlginally only recognized one kind of dominion,...
QUIT
QUINTERONE. A term used in the West Indies to designate a person one of whose parents was a-white person: and the other a quadroon. Also spelled “quintroon.” See QUIT, adj. Clear; discharged: free; also spoken of pe...
QUO ANIMO
Lat. With what intention or motive. Used sometimes as a substantive, in Meu of the single word “animus,” design or motive. “The quo animo is the real subject of inquiry.” 1 Kent, Comm. 77.
QUO JURE
Lat. In old English prac. tice. A writ which lay for one that had land in which another claimed common, to compel the latter to show by what titie he claimed it. Cowell; Fitzsh. Nat. Brev. 128, F.
Quo ligatur, eo dissolvitur
2 Rolle, 21 By the same mode by which a thing is bound, _ by that is it released.
QUO MINUS
Lat. A writ upon which all proceedings in the court of exchequer were formerly grounded. In it the plaintiff suggests that he is the king’s debtor, and that ‘the defendant has done him the injury or damage complained...
QUOAD HOC
Lat. As to this; with respect to this; so far as this in particular is concerned.
QUOAD SACRA
Lat. As to sacred things; for religious purposes. Quocumgque modo velit; quocumgque
QUOD ALIAS BONUM
Quod alias bonum ect justum est, si per vim vel fraudem petatur, malum et injustum efficitur. 3 Coke, 78. What otherwise is good and just, if it be sought by force and fraud, becomes bad and unjust.
QUOD AZDIFICATUR IN AREA
QU0 WARRANTO. In old English practice. A writ, in the nature of a writ of right for the king, against him who claimed or usurped any office, franchise, or liberty, to inquire by what authority he supported his claim, in ...
QUOD FUIT CONCESSUM
tias. That which has been received against the reason of the law is not to be drawn into a precedent. Dig. 1, 3, 14.
QUOD IN JURE SCRIPTO
- Quod in jure soripto ‘“jus’’ appellatur, id in lege Anglis ‘‘rectum’’ esse dicitur. What in the civil law is called “jus,” in the law of England is said to be “rectum,” (right.) Co. Litt. 260; F...
QUOD JUSSU
Lat. In the civil law, The name of an action given to one who had contracted with a son or slave, by order of the father or master, to compel such father or master to stand to the agreement. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c....
QUOD NON TENEAT PLAOITA DE LI
BERO TENEMENTO. A writ addressed to ‘the steward and marshal of England, inhibiting them to take cognizance of an action in their court that concerns freehold. Reg.
QUOD NULLUM EST
among all men is called the “law of nations.” 1 Bl. Comm. 48; Dig. 1, 1, 9; Inst. 1, 2, 1.
QUOD OLERICI BENEFIOIATI DE
CANCELLARIA. A writ to exempt a clerk of the chancery from the contribution towards the proctors of the clergy in parliament, etc. Reg. Orig. 261.
QUOD OLERICI NON ELIGANTUR
IN OFFICIO BALLIVI, etc. A writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made,
QUOD OMNES TANGIT
Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus debet supportari. That which touches or concerns all ought to be supported by all. 38
QUOD PARTES REPLACITENT. That
the parties do replead. The form of the judgment on award of a repleader. 2 Salk. 579.
QUOD PERMITTAT PROSTERNERE
That he permit to abate. In old practice. A writ, in the nature of a writ of right, which lay to abate a nuisance. 3 Bl. Comm. 221. And see Conhocton Stone Road v. Buffalo, etc, R. Co., 51 N. Y. 579, 10 Am. Rep. 646;
QUOD PERSONA NEC PREBEN
' DARI, etc. A writ which lay for spiritual persons, distrained in their spiritual possessions, for payment of a fifteenth with the rest of the parish. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 175. Obsolete.
QUOD SUB CERTA FORMA
Quod pro minore licitum est et pro majore licitum est. 8 Coke, 43. That which is lawful as to the minor is lawful as to the major.
QUOD SUBINTELLIGITUR
ed, and will not be permitted to be made the subject of any adjustment or compensation on the part of the grantee. Ex parte Milder, 2 Hill (N. Y.) 428.
QUONIAM ATTACHIAMENTA
(Since the attachments.) One of the oldest books in the Scotch law. So called from the two first words of the volume. Jacob; Whishaw.
QUOTATION
1. The production to a court or judge of the exact language of a statute, precedent, or other authority, in support of an argument or proposition advanced.
Quoted under this name, by Fleta, lib
1. c. 38, $15; Id. lib. 3, c. 10, § 3—Lex judicialis. An ordeal.—Lex manifesta. Manifest or open law: the trial by duel or ordeal. The same with lea apparens, (g. v.) In King John’s charter (chapter 38) and the ar...
QUOTIES IN VERBIS
tinction is long since obsolete. See 1 Bl. Comm. 351; Snider v. Rinehart, 18 Colo. 18, 31 Pac. 716; Gilbert v. Sweetser, 4 Me. 484.
QUOTUPLEX
words there is no ambiguity, then no exposition contrary to the words is to be made.
QUOUSQUE
Lat. How long; how far; until. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Coke, 41.
QUOVIS MODO
Lat. In whatever manner.
QUZ AD UNUM FINEM 971
Que ad unum finem loquuta sunt, non debent ad alium detorqueri. 4 Coke, 14. Those words which are spoken to one end ought not to be perverted to another.
QUZ EST EADEM
Lat. Which is the same. Words used for alleging that the trespass or other fact mentioned in the plea is the same as that laid in the declaration. where, from the circumstances, there is an apparent difference between th...