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  • QUARTERIZATTON
    Quartering of criminals.
  • QUARTERLY COURTS
    A system of courts in Kentucky possessing a limited original jurisdiction in civil cases and appellate jurisdiction from justices of the peace.
  • QUARTERONE
    In the Spanish and French West Indies, a quadroon, that is, a person one of whose parents was white and the other a mulatto. See Daniel v. Guy, 19 Ark. 131.
  • QUARTO DIE POST
    Lat On the fourth day after. Appearance day, In the former English practice, the defendant being allowed four days, inclusive, from the return of the writ, to make his appearance.
  • QUASH
    To overthrow; to abate; to annul; to make void. Spelman; 8 BL Comm. 303; Crawford v. Stewart 38 Pa^ 34; Holland v. Webster, 43 Fla. 85,, 29 South. 625; Bosley v. Bruner, 2 Cushm. (Miss.) 462.
  • QUASI
    Lat As if; as it were; analogous to. This term is used in legal phraseology to Indicate that one subject resembles another, with which it is compared, in certain characteristics, but that there are also intrinsic differences between them. It is exclusively a term of classification. Prefixed to a term More...
  • QUARTER COUSIN
    See COUSIN.
  • QUATUOR PEDIBUS CURRIT
    Lat It runs upon four feet; it runs upon all fours. See ALL-FOURS.
  • QUATUORVIRI
    In Roman law. Magistrates who had the care and inspection of roads. Dig. 1, 2, 3, 30.
  • QUAY
    A wharf for the loading or unloading of goods carried in ships. This word is sometimes spelled "key.". The popular and commercial signification of the word "quay" involves the notion of a space of ground appropriated to the public use; such use as the convenience of commerce requires. New Orleans More...
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