PRZEDIAL SERVITUDE
- among immovables, and were called “predia pense, or “volatile estates.” 2 Bl. Comm.
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PRZEDIUM
Lat. In the civil law. Tand; an estate; a tenement; a piece of landed property. See Dig. 50, 16, 115.
PRZELEGATUM
Lat. In Roman law. A payment in advance of the whole or part of the share which a given heir would be entitled to recelve out of an inheritance ; corresponding generally to “advancement” in English and American law. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 762.
PRZEOCIPUT CONVENTIONNEL. In
French law. Under the régime en communaduté, when that is of the conventional kind, if the surviving husband or wife is entitled to take any portion of the common property by a paramount title and before partition thereof, this right is called by t...
PUPILLARIS SUBSTITUTIO
Lat. In the civi: law. Pupillar substitution; the substitution of an heir to a pupil or infant under puberty. The substitution by a father of an heir to his children under his power, disposing of his own estate and theirs, in case the child refused t...
PURGE DES HYPOTHEQUES
Fr. In French law. An expression used to describe the act of freeing an estate from the mortgages and privileges with which it is charged, observing the formalities prescribed by law. Duverger.
PURPORT
party ;” but it is now used in relation to any _kind of partition proceedings. See Seiders v.
PYROMANIA
times by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man’s meat, horse’s meat, and dog’s meat of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest, hundred, etc. The land subject to this custom was called “terra putura.” Others, who call...
QARAVAMEN
land grant. A grant by a public authority vesting title to public land in a private (natural) person. United Land Ass'n v. Knight, 85 grant from the public; a grant of a power, license, privilege, or property, from the state or government to one or m...
QUA: ACCESSIONUM
QUADRANTATA TERRZ. In old English law. A measure of land, variously described as a quarter of an acre or the fourth part of a yard-land.
QUALIFICATION
is the way to know what things are truly lawful. circumstances, natural or adventitious, which are inherently or legally necessary to render him eligible to fill an office or to perform a public duty or function. Thus, the ownership of a freeliold e...
QUAMDIU
Lat. As long as; ‘so long as. A word of limitation in old conveyances.
QUARE EJEOCIT INFRA TERMINUM
Wherefore he ejected within the term. In old practice. A writ which lay for a lessee where he was ejected before the expiration — of his term, in cases where the wrong-doer or ejector was not himself in possession of the lands, but his feoffee or a...
QUARE OBSTRUXIT
. QUARE CLAUSUM FREGIT. Lat. Wherefore he broke the close. That species of the action of trespass which has for its object the recovery of damages for an unlawful entry upon another’s land is termed
QUARENTENA TERRA
not enjoy his right because the owner had so obstructed it. Cowell.
QUASI
coin of the United States, of the value of two and a half dollars.—Quarter of a year. Ninety-one days. Co. Litt. 1385}.—Quarter-sales. In New York law. A species of fine on alienation, being one-fourth of the purchase money of an estate, which is...
QUE ESTATE
L. Fr. Whose estate. A term used in pleading, particularly in claiming prescription, by which it is alleged that the plaintiff and those former owners whose estate he has have immemorially exercised the right claimed. This was called “prescribing i...
Queen Elizabeth (D. C.) 100 Fed
876.—EFree entry, ss, and regress. An expression rsed to denote that a person has the right to go on land again and again as often as may
Queens
L.R. Queensland Law Reports.
QUERENS
cases, that the parent was not in his right mind. Calvin; 2 Kent, Comm. 327; Bell. Lat. A plaintiff; complainant; inquirer.
QUI HABET CUSTODIAM TERRZ. Writ
for delivering an heir to him who has wardship of the land. A writ directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of him that was ward to another to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of his nae Reg. Orig. 161.
QUI HABET CUSTODIUM TERRZ. An
ancient writ, directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of an heir, being in ward, to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of his land.
Qui non habet potestatem
alienandi habet necessitatem retinendi. Hob. 336 He who has not the power of alienating is obliged to retain.
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 hold of themselves, and, instea...
QUIETUS REDDITUS
law. Quitrent. Spelman.
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, called, emphatically, ‘quir...
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 persons absolved or acquitted of...
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.
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; Fleta, 1. 6, c 1, § 1.
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.