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  • QUOD COMPUTET
    That he account Judgment quod computet is a preliminary or interlocutory judgment given in the action of account-render (also in the case of creditors' bills against an executor or administrator,) directing that accounts be taken before a master or auditor. Quod constat clare non debet verin-eari. What is clearly apparent More...
  • QUOD CUM
    In pleading. For that whereas. A form of introducing matter of inducement in certain actions, as assumpsit and case. Quod datum est ecolesisB, datum est Deo. 2 Inst 2. What is given to the church is given to God. Quod demonstrandi oausa additur rei satis, demonstrate, frustra nt. 10 Coke, More...
  • QUOD EI DEFORCEAT
    In English law. The name of a writ given by St Westm. 2, 13 Edw. I. c. 4, to the owners of a particular estate, as for life, in dower, by the curtesy, or in fee-tail, who were barred of the right of possession by a recovery had against them More...
  • QUOD FUIT CONCESSUM
    Which was granted. A phrase in the reports, signifying that an argument or point made was conceded or acquiesced in by the court Quod in Jure sorlpto "jns" appellatur, id in lege Anglia "rectum" esse dieitnr. What In the civil law is called "JIM," in the law of England is More...
  • QUOD JUSSU
    Lat In the civil law. The name of an action given to one who had contracted with a son or slave, by order of the father or master, to compel such father or master to stand to the agreement Halifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 2, no. 3; Inst 4, More...
  • 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.
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