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  • QUARENTENA TERRAE
    A furlong. Co. Litt. 5b.
  • QUARREL
    This word is said to extend not only to real and personal actions, but also to the causes of actions and suits; so that by the release of all "quarrels," not only actions pending, but also causes of action and suit, are released; and "quarrels," "controversies," and "debates" are in More...
  • QUARRY
    In mining law. An open excavation where the works are visible at the surface; a place or pit where stone, slate, marble, etc., is dug out or separated from a mass of rock. Bainb. Mines, 2. See Marvel v. Merritt, 116 U. S. 11, 6 Sup. Ct 207. 29 L. More...
  • QUART
    A liquid measure, containing' one-fourth part of a gallon.
  • QUARTA DIVI PII
    In Roman law. That portion of a testator's estate which he was required by law to leave to a child whom he had adopted and afterwards emancipated or unjustly disinherited, being one-fourth of his property. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 594.
  • QUARTA FALCIDIA
    In Roman law. That portion of a testator's estate which, by the Falcidlan law, was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 771.
  • QUARTER
    The fourth part of anything, especially of a year. Also a length of four inches. In England, a measure of corn, generally reckoned at eight bushels, though subject to local variations. See Hospital St. Cross v. Lord Howard De Walden, 6 Term, 343. In American land law, a quarter section More...
  • QUARTER SESSIONS
    In English law. A criminal court held before two or more justices of the peace, (one of whom must be of the quorum,) in every county, once in every quarter of a year. 4 BL Comm. 271; 4 Steph. Comm. 335. In American law. Courts established in some of the More...
  • QUARTERING
    In English criminal law. The dividing a criminal's body into quarters, after execution. A part of the punishment of high treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 93.
  • QUARTERING SOLDIERS
    The act of a government in billeting or assigning soldiers to private houses, without the consent of the owners of such houses, and requiring such owners to supply them with board or lodging or both.
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