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  • 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.
  • R. L.
    This abbreviation may stand either for "Revised Laws" or "Roman law."
  • R. S.
    An abbreviation for "Revised Statutes."
  • RACE
    A tribe, people, or nation, belonging or supposed to belong to the same stock or lineage. "Race, color, or.previous condition of servitude." Const U. S., Am. XV.
  • RACE-WAY
    An artificial canal dug in the earth; a channel cut in the ground. Wilder v. De Cou, 26 Minn. 17, 1 N. W. 4& The channel for the current that drives a water-wheel. Webster.
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