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  • 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
  • QUENTO EXACTUS
    In old practice. Called or exacted the fifth time. A return made by the sheriff, after a defendant had been proclaimed, required, or exacted in five county courts successively, and failed to appear, upon which he was outlawed by the coroners of the county. 3 BL Comm. 283.
  • QUIRE OF DOVER
    In English law. A record In the exchequer, showing the tenures for guarding and repairing Dover Castle, and determining the services' of the Cinque Porte. 3 How. State Tr. 868.
  • QUIRITARIAN OWNERSHIP
    In Roman law. Ownership held by a title recognized by the municipal law, in an object also recognized by that law, and in the strict character of a Roman citizen. "Roman law originally only recognized one kind of dominion, called, emphatically, 'quiritary dominion/ Gradually, however, certain real rights arose which, More...
  • QUIT
    v. To leave; remove from; surrender possession of; as when a tenant "quits" the premises or receives a "notice to-quit". -Notice to quit. A written notice given by a landlord to his tenant, stating that the former desires to repossess himself of the demised premises, and that the latter is More...
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