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  • QUANTUM; DAMNIFICATUS ?
    How much damnified? The name of an issue directed by a court of equity to be tried In a court of law, to ascertain the amount of compensation to be allowed for damage.
  • QUANTUM MERUIT
    As much as he deserved In pleading.. The common count In an action of assumpsit for work and labor, founded on an implied assumpsit or promise on the part of the defendant to pay the plaintiff as much as he reasonably deserved to have for his labor. 3 BL Comm. More...
  • QUANTUM VALEBANT
    As much as othey were worth. In pleading. The common count in an action of assumpsit for goods sold and delivered, founded on an implied assumpsit or promise, on the part of the defendant, to pay the plaintiff as much as the goods were reasonably worth. 3 Bl. . Comm. More...
  • QUARANTINE
    A period of time (theoretically forty days) during which a vessel, coming from a place where a contagious or infectious disease is prevalent, is detained by authority in the harbor of her port of destination, or at a station near it, without being permitted to land or to discharge her More...
  • QUARE
    Lat Wherefore; for what reason; on what account. Used iu the Latin oform of several common-law writs.
  • 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 "trespass quare clausum fregit;" "breaking a close" being the technical expression for an unlawful entry upon land. The language More...
  • QUARE EJECIT 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 another claiming under him. 3 More...
  • QUARE IMPEDIT
    Wherefore he hinders. In English practice. A writ or action which lies for* the patron of an advowson, where he has been disturbed in his right of patronage; so called from the emphatic words of the old form, by which the disturber was summoned to answer why he hinders the More...
  • QUARE INCUMBRAVIT
    In English law. A writ which lay against a bishop who, within six months after the vacation of a benefice, conferred it on his clerk, while two others were contending at law for the right of presentation, calling upon him to show cause why he had incumbered the church. Reg. More...
  • QUARE INTRUSIT
    A writ that formerly lay where the lord proffered a suitable marriage to his ward, who rejected it, and entered into the land, and married another, the value of his marriage not being satisfied to the lord. Abolished by 12 Car. II. c 24.
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