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  • 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...
  • QUOD BILLA CASSETUR
    That the bill be quashed. The coinnion-law form of a judgment sustaining a plea in abatement, where the proceeding is by bill, i. e., by a capias instead of by original writ.
  • QUOD CLERICI BENEFICIATI DE CANCELLARIA
    A writ to exempt a clerk of the chancery from the contribution towards the proctors of the clergy in parliament etc. Beg. Orig. 261.
  • QUOD CLERICI NON ELIGANTUR IN OFFICIO BALLIVI, ETC
    A writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made, bailiff, beadle, reeve, or some such officer, to obtain exemption from serving the office. Reg. Orig. 187.
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