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  • QUARTER SESSIONS
    In English law. A criminal court held before two or more justices of the peace, (one of whom must be of the quorum,) in every county, once in every quarter of a year. 4 BL Comm. 271; 4 Steph. Comm. 335. In American law. Courts established in some of the More...
  • QUARTERING
    In English criminal law. The dividing a criminal's body into quarters, after execution. A part of the punishment of high treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 93.
  • QUARTERING SOLDIERS
    The act of a government in billeting or assigning soldiers to private houses, without the consent of the owners of such houses, and requiring such owners to supply them with board or lodging or both.
  • QUARTERIZATTON
    Quartering of criminals.
  • QUARTERLY COURTS
    A system of courts in Kentucky possessing a limited original jurisdiction in civil cases and appellate jurisdiction from justices of the peace.
  • QUARTERONE
    In the Spanish and French West Indies, a quadroon, that is, a person one of whose parents was white and the other a mulatto. See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 131.
  • QUARTO DIE POST
    Lat On the fourth day after. Appearance day, In the former English practice, the defendant being allowed four days, inclusive, from the return of the writ, to make his appearance.
  • QUASH
    To overthrow; to abate; to annul; to make void. Spelman; 8 BL Comm. 303; Crawford v. Stewart 38 Pa^ 34; Holland v. Webster, 43 Fla. 85,, 29 South. 625; Bosley v. Bruner, 2 Cushm. (Miss.) 462.
  • QUASI
    Lat As if; as it were; analogous to. This term is used in legal phraseology to Indicate that one subject resembles another, with which it is compared, in certain characteristics, but that there are also intrinsic differences between them. It is exclusively a term of classification. Prefixed to a term More...
  • QUARTER COUSIN
    See COUSIN.
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