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  • QUIT
    adj. Clear; discharged; free; also spoken of persons absolved or acquitted of a charge.
  • QUITCLAIM
    v. In conveyancing. To release or relinquish a claim; to execute a deed of quitclaim. See QUITCLAIM, n.
  • QUITCLAIM
    n. A release or acquittance given to one man by another, in respect of any action that he has or might have against him. Also acquitting or giving up one's claim or title. Termes de la Ley; Cowell. -Quitclaim deed. A deed of conveyance operating by way of release; that More...
  • QUITRENT
    Certain established rents of the freeholders and ancient copyholders of manors are denominated "qultrents," because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all other services. 3 Cruise, Dig. 314.
  • QUITTANCE
    An abbreviation of '"acquittance" a release, (q. v.)
  • QUO ANIMO
    Lat. With what intention or motive. Used sometimes as a substantive, in lieu of the single word "animus" design or motive. "The quo animo is the real subject of inquiry." 1 Kent, Comm. 77. QUO JURE. Lat In old English practice. A writ which lay for one that had land More...
  • QUO MINUS
    Lat A writ upon which all proceedings In the court of exchequer were formerly grounded. In it the plaintiff suggests that he is the king's debtor, and that the defendant has done him the injury or damage complained of, quo minus sufficient existit, by which he is less able to More...
  • QUO WARRANTO
    In old English practice. A writ in the nature of a writ of right for the king, against him who claimed or usurped any office, franchise, or liberty, to inquire by what authority he supported his claim. In order to determine the right It lay also in case of non-user, More...
  • QUOAD HOC
    Lat As to this; with respect to this; so far as this in particular is concerned. A prohibition quoad hoc is a prohibition as to certain things among others. Thus, where a party was complained against in the ecclesiastical court for matters cognizable in the temporal courts, a prohibition quoad More...
  • QUOAD SACRA
    Lat As to sacred things; for religious purposes. Quooumque modo velit; quoeumque modo possit. In any way he wishes; In any way he can. Clason v. Bailey, 14 Johns. (N. Y.) 484, 492. Quod a quoque poena) nomine exaotum est id eldem restituere nemo eogitur. That which has been exacted More...
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