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  • QUOD NON FUIT NEGATUM
    Which was not denied. A phrase found in the old reports, signifying that an argument or proposition was not deuied or controverted by the court Latch, 213. Quod non habet prinoipium non habet nnem. Wing. Max. 79; Co. Litt 345a. That which has not beginning has not end. Quod non More...
  • QUOD NOT A
    Which note; which mark. A reporter's note in the old books, directing attention to a point or rule. Dyer, 23. Quod nullius esse potest id ut alieu-Jns floret nulla obligatio valet effleere. No agreement can avail to make that the property of any one which cannot be acquired as property. More...
  • QUOD PARTES REPLACITENT
    That the parties do replead. The form of the judgment on award of a repleader. 2 Salk. 579.
  • QUOD PARTITIO FIAT
    That partition be made. The name of the judgment in a suit for partition, directing that a partition be effected. Quod pendet non est pro eo quasi sit. What is in suspense is considered as not existing during such suspense. Dig. 50, 17, 109, 1. Quod per me non possum, More...
  • QUOD PERMITTAT
    That he permit In old English law. A writ which lay for the heir of him that was disseised of his common of pasture, against the heir of the disseisor. Cowell.
  • QUOD PERMITTAT PROSTERNERE
    That he permit to abate. In old practice. A writ in the nature of a writ of right which lay to abate a nuisance. 3 Bl. Comm. 221. And see Conhocton Stone Road v. Buffalo, etc., R. Co., 51 N. Y. 579, 10 Am. Rep. 646; Powell v. Furniture.Co., 34 More...
  • QUOD PERSONA NEC PREBENDARII, ETC
    A writ which lay for spiritual persons, distrained in their spiritual possessions, for payment of a fifteenth with the rest of the parish. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 175. Obsolete. Quod populus postromum jussit, id jus ratum esto. What the people have last enacted, let that be the established law. A law More...
  • QUOD PROSTRAVIT
    That he do abate. The name of a judgment upon an indictment for a nuisance, that the defendant abate such nuisance. Quod pure debetur present! die debe-tur. That which is due unconditionally is due now. Tray. Leg. Max. 519. Quod quis en culpa sua damnum sentit non intelligitur damnum sentire. More...
  • QUOD RECUPERET
    That he recover The ordinary form of judgments for the plaintiff in actions at law. 1 Archb. Pr. K. B. 225; 1 Burrill, Pr. 246. Quod remedio destituitur ipsa re valet si oulpa absit. That which is without remedy avails of Itself, if there be no fault in the party More...
  • QUOD SI CONTINGAT
    That if it happen. Words by which a condition might formerly be created in a deed. Litt. f 330. Quod sub eerta forma oonoeasum eel reservatum est non trahitur ad valorem vel oompensationem. That which is granted or reserved under a certain form is not [permitted to be] drawn into More...
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