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  • 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.
  • QUATUOR PEDIBUS CURRIT
    Lat It runs upon four feet; it runs upon all fours. See ALL-FOURS.
  • QUATUORVIRI
    In Roman law. Magistrates who had the care and inspection of roads. Dig. 1, 2, 3, 30.
  • QUAY
    A wharf for the loading or unloading of goods carried in ships. This word is sometimes spelled "key.". The popular and commercial signification of the word "quay" involves the notion of a space of ground appropriated to the public use; such use as the convenience of commerce requires. New Orleans More...
  • QUE EST LE MESME
    L. Fr. Which la the same. A term used in actions of trespass, etc. See QUE EST EADEM.
  • 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 in a que estate."
  • QUEAN
    A worthless woman; a strumpet. Obsolete.
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