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  • QUIETE CLAMANTIA
    L. Lat In old English law. Quitclaim. Bract fol. 33b.
  • QUIETE CLAMARE
    L. Lat To quitclaim or renounce all pretensions of right and title. Bract fols. 1* 5.
  • QUIETUS
    In old English law. Quit; acquitted; discharged. A word used by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors in the exchequer, in their acquittances or discharges given to accountants; usually concluding with an abinde reccssit quietus, (hath gone quit thereof,) which was called a "quietus est." Cowell. In modern law, More...
  • QUIETUS REDDITUS
    In old English law. Quitrent Spelman. See QUITRENT. Qnilibet potest rennneiare jnri pre se introdneto. Every one may renounce or relinquish a right introduced for his own benefit 2 Inst 183; Wing. Max. p. 483, max. 123; 4 Bl. Comm. 317.
  • QUILLE
    In French marine law. Keel; the keel of a vessel. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit 6, art 8.
  • QUINQUE PORTUS
    In old English law. The Cinque Ports. Spelman.
  • QUINQUEPARTITE
    Consisting of five parts; divided into five parts.
  • QUINSTEME, OR QUINZIME
    Fifteenths ; also the fifteenth day after a festival. 13 Edw. I. See Cowell.
  • QUINTAL, OR KINTAL
    A weight of one hundred pounds. Cowell.
  • QUINTERONE
    A term used in the West Indies to designate a person one of whose parents was a white person and the other a quadroon. Also spelled "qulntroon." See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 13L
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