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  • QUERELA INOFFICIOSI TESTAMENTI
    Lat. In the civil law. A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the will, founded on the presumption of law, in such cases, that the parent was not In his right mind. Calvin.; 2 Kent, Comm. 327; Bell.
  • QUERENS
    Lat A plaintiff; complainant; Inquirer.
  • QUESTA
    In old records. A quest; an inquest, inquisition, or inquiry, upon the oaths of an impaneled jury. Cowell.
  • QUESTION
    A method of criminal examination heretofore in use in some of the countries of continental Europe, consisting of the application of torture to the supposed criminal, by means of the rack or other engines, in order to- extort from him, as the condition of his release from the torture, a More...
  • QUESTMAN, OR QUESTMONGER
    In old English law. A starter of lawsuits, or prosecutions; also a person chosen to inquire Into abuses, especially such as relate to weights and measures; also a church-warden.
  • QUESTORES PARRICIDII
    Lat In Roman law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the comitia, as a kind of commission, to search out and try all cases of parricide and murder. They were proba-. bly appointed annually. Maine, Anc. Law, 370.
  • QUESTUS EST NOBIS
    Lat A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 fcdw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caused the nuisance to the damage of More...
  • QUI TAM
    Lat "Who as well". An action brought by an informer, under a statute which establishes a penalty for the commission or omission of a certain act and provides that the same shall be recoverable in a civil action, part of the penalty to go to any person who will bring More...
  • QUIA
    Lat Because; whereas; inasmuch as.
  • QUIA DATUM EST NOBIS INTELLIGI
    Because it is given to us to understand Formal words in old writs,
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