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  • QUORUM
    When a'committee, board of directors, meeting of shareholders, legislative or other body of persons cannot act unless a certain number at least of them are present, that number is called a "quorum." Sweet. In the absence of any law or rule fixing the quorum, it consists of a majority of More...
  • QUOT
    In old Scotch law. A twentieth part of the movable estate of a person dying, which was due to the bishop of the diocese within which the person resided. Bell.
  • QUOTA
    A proportional part or share, the proportional part of a demand or liability, falling upon each of those who are col lectlvely responsible for the whole.
  • QUOTATION
    1. The production to a court or judge of the exact language of a statute, precedent, or other authority, in support of an argument or proposition advanced. "2. Tbe transcription of part of a literary composition into another book or writing." "3. A statement of the market price of one More...
  • QUOTIENT VERDICT
    A money verdict the amount of which is fixed by the following process: Each juror writes down the sum he wishes to award by the verdict; these amounts are all added together, and the total is divided by twelve, (the number of the jurors,) and the quotient stands as the More...
  • QUOTUPLEX
    Of how many kinds; how many fold. A term of frequent occurrence in Sheppard's Touchstone.
  • QUOSQUE
    Lat. How long; how far; until In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Coke, 41
  • QUOVIS MODO
    Lat. In whatever manner. Quum de lucro duorum queratur, melior est oausa possidentis. When the question la as to the gain of two persons, the title of the party in possession is the better one. Dig. 60, 17, 126, 2. Quum in testamento ambfgue ant etiam porperam soriptum est, benigne More...
  • R.
    In the signatures of royal persons, "R." ia an abbreviation for "rem" (king) or "regina" (queen.) In descriptions of land, according to the divisions of the governmental survey. It stands for "range." Ot-tuniwa, etc, R. Co. v. McWilliams, 71 Iowa, 164, 32 N. W. 315.
  • R. G.
    An abbreviation for Regula Gen-ralist a general rule or order of court; or for the plural of the same.
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