Terms beginning with "Q" (105 total)

QUZ PLURA

Lat. In old English practice. A writ which lay where an inqutsition had been made by an eschentor in any county of such lands or tenements as any man died seised of, and all that was in his possession was imagined not to...

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QUZESTUS

L. Lat. That estate whicha man has by acquisition or purchase, in contradistinction to “haAredttas,” which is what he has by descent. Glan. 1, 7, c. 1.