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  • 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.
  • QUAESTOR
    Lat A Roman magistrate, o whose office it was to collect the public revenue. Varro de L. L. iv. 14. -Quastor saori palatii. Quaestor of the sacred palace. An officer of die imperial court at Constantinople, with powers and duties resembling those of a chancellor. Calvin.
  • QUAESTUS
    L. Lat That estate which a man has by acquisition or purchase, in contradistinction to "licereditas," which is what he has by descent Glan. 1, 7, c 1.
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