QUIETARE
L. Lat. To quit, acquit, discharge, or save harmiess. A formal word in old deeds of donation and other conveyances. Cowell.
Category: Latin Maxims
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QUIETE CLAMARE
L. Lat. To quitclaim or renounce all pretensions of right and title. Bract. fols. 1, 5.
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.
RETONSOR
’ RETONSOR. L. Lat. In old English law. <A clipper of money. Fleta, Hb. 1, c. 20, § 122.
RETRAOCTUS FEUDALIS
L. Lat. In oid Scotch law. The power which a superior possessed of paying off a debt due to an adgaudging creditor, and taking a conveyance to the adjudication. Bell...
REVERSIO
L. Lat.. In old English law. The returning of land to the donor
RIOTOSE
L. Lat. Riotously. A formal and essential word in old indictments for riots. 2 Strange, 834.
RISCUS
L. Lat. In the civil law. A chest for the keeping of clothing. Calvin.
SACCUS CUM BROCHIA
L. Lat. In old English law. <A service or tenure of finding a sack and a broach (pitcher) to the
SARCULATURA
L. Lat. In old ree ords. Weeding corn. A tenant’s service of weeding for the lord. Cowell.
SEMPER
Lat. Always. A word which introduces several Latin maxims, of which some are also used without this prefix.
SEQUELA
L. Lat. In old English law.
STRAMINEUS HOMO
L. Lat. A man of straw, one ‘of no substance, put forward as bail or surety.
SUMMONEAS
L. Lat. In old practice. A writ of summons; a writ by which a party Was summoned to appear in court.
SYNODALES TESTES
L. Lat. Synods-men (corrupted into sidesmen) were the urban and rural deans, now the nee dens.
TALLAGIUM
L. Lat. A term including all taxes. 2 Inst. 532; People v. Brooklyn, 9
TALLIA
L. Lat. A tax or tribute; tallage; a share taken or cut out of any one’s income or means. Spelman.
TENET; TENUIT
Lat. He holds; he held. In the Latin forms of the writ of waste against a tenant, these words introduced the allegation of tenure. If the tenancy still existed, and recovery of the land was sought, the former word was used, (and the writ was said to ...
TOTA CURIA
L. Lat. In the old re ports. The whole court.
Tray
Lat. Max. Lat. Max. (or Leg. Max.). ner, Latin Maxims and Phrases, etc.
TRI
L. Lat. With or by the advice of our council]. A phrase used in the old writs of summons to parliament. Crabb, Eng. Law, 240.
ULNA FERREA
L. Lat. In old English law. The iron ell; the standard ell of iron, kept in the exchequer for the rule of measure.
Ultra Vires
UL-truh VY-reez
Beyond the powers. An act performed without legal authority, exceeding the powers granted by law or by a company's memorandum of association.
VADIARE DUELLUM
L. Lat. In old English law. To wage or gage the duellum ; to wage battel; to give pledgés mutually for engaging in the trial by combat.
VALENTIA
L. Lat. The value or price
VALOR BENEFICIORUM
L. Lat. The value of every ecclesiastical benefice and preferment, according to which the first fruits and tenths are collected and paid. It is commonly called the “king’s books,” by which the clergy are at present rated: 2
VENDITIONI EXPONAS
whether they be in truth so sick as that they cannot appear, or whether they do counterfeit. Cowell. lLat.: You expose to sale. ‘This is the name of a writ
VEREDIOTUM
L. Lat. In old English
VERGENS AD INOPIAM
L. Lat. In Scotch law. Verging towards poverty; in deciining circumstances. 2 Kames, Eq. &.
VETITUM NAMIUM
L. Lat. Where the bailiff of a lord distrains beasts or guods of another, and the lord forbids the bailiff to deliver them when the sheriff comes to make replevin, the owner of the cattle may demand satisfaction in placitum de vetito namio. 2 Inst. 1...