PROROGATED JURISDICTION. In
Scotch law. A power conferred by consent
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PROTECTOR OF SETTLEMENT. In
English law. By the statute 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 74, § 32, power is given to any settlor to appoint any person or persons, not exceeding three, the “protector of the settlement.” The object of such appointment is to prevent the tenant in tail from b...
PROVISIONES
l[Lat. In English history. Those acts of parliament which were passed to curb the arbitrary power of the crown. See PROVISION.
PRZAESUMPTIO
Lat. Presumption; a presumption. Also intrusion, or the unlawful taking of anything.
PRZECEPTORES
Lat. Masters. The chief clerks in chancery were formerly so called, because they had the direction of making out remedial writs. 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 251.
PURVEYANCE. In
old English law. A providing of necessaries for the king’s house. Cowell. a
PUTS AND CALLS
PUTS AND CALLS. A “put” in the language of the grain or stock market is a privilege of ‘delivering or not delivering the subject-matter of the sale; and a “call” is a privilege of calling or not calling for it.
QUAM OCLERICUS MULOTATUR PRO
NON-RESIDENTIA. A writ prohibiting an ordinary to take a pecuniary mulct imposed on a clerk of the sovereign for nonresidence. Reg. Writ. 59.
QUANDO VERBA STATUTI
Quando jus domini regis ct subditi concurrunt, jus regis preferri debet. 9 Coke, 129. When the right of king and of subject ‘concur, the king’s right should be preferred.
QUANTI MINORIS
of a statute are special, but the reason or object of it general, the statute is to be construed generally. 10 Coke, 1010. Lat. The name of an action in the civil law, (and in Louisiana,) brought by the purchaser of an article, for a reduction of th...
Queb
L.R. Quebec Law Reports, two series, Queen’s Bench or Superior Court.
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 civil action, part of the penalty...
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 from asserting it. : See
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.
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.
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.
R. & B. Co
v. Ward. 37 Ga. 515.—Laws of war. See Law.—Mixed war. A mixed war is one which is made on one side by public authority, and on the other by mere private persons. People v. McLeod, 1 Hill (N. Y¥.) 377, 415, 37 Am. Dec. 328.—Private war. One bet...
RATIONE MATERIZ
Lat. By reason of the matter involved; in consequence of, or from the nature of, the subject-matter.
Reed, 117 Mo
604, 23 S. W. 886; King v.
REFERENDO SINGULA SINGULIS
Lat. Referring individual or separate words to separate subjects; making a distributive reference of words in an instrument; a rule of construction.
REGNUM ECCLESIASTICUM. ‘The
ecclesiastical kingdom. 2 Hale, P. C. 324.
REMISE
Remedies for rights are ever favor~ ably extended. 18 Vin. Abr. 521.
Reporte (now
republished as 2- Ware);:— Davy’s or Davies’: Irish King’s Bench and Hxchequer Reports ;—Davies’ English Patent. Cases;—Davis’: Reports (Abridgment of Sir Edward Coke's Reports);—Davis’ Reports, vol. 2 Hawali;—Davis’ United St...
Reports, vol
32 Louisiana Annual;—Dented. Den. C. OC. Denison’s English Crown Cages. Den. & P. Denison & Pearce’s English 1 Freeman’s King’s Bench Keports and vol. 2 Freeman’s Chancery Reports. See also Freem. 8 Common Bench. 5 California;—Morris...
RESORIPTUM
Lat. In the civil law. A species of imperial constitution, in the form of an answer to some application or petition; a rescript. Calvin.
REVOCATIONE PARLIAMENTI. An
ancient writ for recalling a parliament. 4
Ridg
t. Hard. (or Ridg. & Hard.). Ridgeway’s Reports tempore Hardwicke, Chancery and King’s Bench.
Rights are also classified
in constitutional law as natural, civil, and political, to which there is sometimes added the class of “personal rights.”
ROGATIO
Lat. In Roman law. An asking for a law; a proposal of a law for adoption or passage. Derivatively, a law passed by such a form.
RULE
. ROYALTY. A payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine, or aimilar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. See eourt, In relation to practice, etc—Rule absolute. One which commands the sub...