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  • QUIA EMPTORES
    "Because the purchasers" The title of the statute of Westm. S" (18 Edw. I. c 1.) This statute took from the tenants of common lords the feudal liberty they claimed of disposing of part of their lands to hold of themselves, and, instead of it, gave them a general liberty More...
  • QUIA ERRONICE EMANAVIT
    Because it issued erroneously, or through mistake. A term in old English practice. Tel. 83.
  • QUIA TIMET
    Lat Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice. The technical name of a bill filed by a party who seeks the aid of a court of equity, because he fears some future probable injury to his rights or interests. 2 Story, Eq. Jur. f 826.
  • QUIBBLE
    A cavilling or verbal objection. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety.
  • QUICK
    Living; alive. "Quick chattels must be put in pound-overt that the owner may give them sustenance; dead need not" Finch, Law, b. 2, c. 6.
  • QUICK WITH CHILD
    See QUICKENING.
  • QUICKENING
    In medical jurisprudence. The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. See Com. v. Parker, 9 Mete (Mass.) 266, 43 Am. Dec. 396; State v. Cooper, 22 N. J. Law, 57, 51 Am. Dec. 248; More...
  • QUID JURIS CLAMAT
    In old English practice. A writ which lay for die grantee of a reversion or remainder, where the particular tenant would not attorn, for the purpose of compelling him. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.
  • QUID PRO QUO
    What for what; something for something. Used in law for the giving one valuable thing for another. It is nothing more than the mutual consideration which passes between the parties to a contract, and which renders it valid and binding. Cowell. Quid sit Jus, et in quo conslstlt injuria, legis More...
  • QUIDAM
    Lat. Somebody. This term is used in the French law to designate a person whose name Is not known. Quidquid enlm sive dolo et culpa ven-ditoris accidit in eo venditor seeurns est. For concerning anything which occurs without deceit and wrong on the part of the vendor, the vendor is More...
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