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  • QUEEN'S BENCH
    The English court of king's bench Is so called during the reign of a queen. 8 Steph. Comm. 403. See KING'S BENCH.
  • QUEEN'S PRISON
    A jail which used to be appropriated to the debtors and criminals confined under process or by authority of the superior courts at Westminster, the high court of admiralty, and also to persons imprisoned under the bankrupt law.
  • QUEM REDITUM REDDIT
    L. Lat. An old writ which lay where a rent-charge or other rent which was not rent service was granted by fine holding of the grantor. If the tenant would not attorn, then the grantee might have had this writ Old Nat. Brev. 126. Quemadntodum ad qusestionem fact! non respondent More...
  • QUERELA
    Lat.. An action preferred in any court of justice. The plaintiff was called "querens," or complainant and his brief, complaint, or declaration was called ^querela." Jacob.
  • QUERELA CORAM REGE A CONCILIO DISCUTIENDA ET TERMINANDA
    A writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the king himself, before the king and his council. Reg. Orig. 124.
  • QUERELA INOFFICIOSI TESTAMENTI
    Lat. In the civil law. A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the will, founded on the presumption of law, in such cases, that the parent was not In his right mind. Calvin.; 2 Kent, Comm. 327; Bell.
  • QUERENS
    Lat A plaintiff; complainant; Inquirer.
  • QUESTA
    In old records. A quest; an inquest, inquisition, or inquiry, upon the oaths of an impaneled jury. Cowell.
  • QUESTION
    A method of criminal examination heretofore in use in some of the countries of continental Europe, consisting of the application of torture to the supposed criminal, by means of the rack or other engines, in order to- extort from him, as the condition of his release from the torture, a More...
  • QUESTMAN, OR QUESTMONGER
    In old English law. A starter of lawsuits, or prosecutions; also a person chosen to inquire Into abuses, especially such as relate to weights and measures; also a church-warden.
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