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  • QUAE NIHIL FRUSTRA
    Lat. Which [does or requires] nothing in vain. Which requires nothing to be done, that is, to no purpose. 2 Kent, Comm. 53. Qnss non neri dobent, facta Talent. Things which ought not to be done are held valid when they have been done Tray. Lat Max. 484. Qnss non More...
  • QUAE PLURA
    Lat. In old English practice. A writ which lay where an Inquisition had been made by an escheator 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 be found by the office; the writ More...
  • QUARE
    A query; question; doubt This word, occurring in the syllabus of a reported case or elsewhere, shows that a question is propounded as to what follows, or that the particular rule, decision, or statement Is considered as open to question. Quare de dubiis, quia per rationes pervenitur ad legitlmam rationem. More...
  • QUARENS
    Lat. A plaintiff; the plaintiff.
  • QUAERENS NIHIL CAPIAT PER BILLAM
    The plaintiff shall take nothing by his bill. A form of judgment for the defendant Latch, 133.
  • QUAERENS NON INVENIT PLEGIUM
    Lat. The plaintiff did not find a pledge. A return1 formerly made by a sheriff to a writ requiring him to take security of the plaintiff to prosecute his claim. Cowell. Quarere dat ampere qua snnt logitima ere. Litt. 443. To inquire into them, is the way to know what More...
  • QUAESTA
    An indulgence or remission of penance, sold by the pope.
  • QUAESTIO
    In Roman law. Anciently a species of commission granted by the comitia to one or more persons for the purpose of inquiring into some crime or public offense and reporting thereon. In later times, the qucestio came to exercise plenary criminal jurisdiction, even to pronouncing sentence, and then was appointed More...
  • QUAETIONARII
    Those who carried quanta about from door to door.
  • QUAESTIONES PERPETUAE
    in Roman law, were commissions (or courts) of inquisition into crimes alleged to have been committed. They were called "perpetuw," to distinguish them from occasional Inquisitions, and because they ' were permanent courts for the trial of offenders. Brown.
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