For having a return; to have a return. A term applied to the judgment for the defendant in an action of replevin, awarding him a return of the goods replevied; and to the writ or execution issued thereon. 2 Tidd, Pr. 993, 1038; 3 Bl. Cbmm. 149. Applied also to the sureties given by the plaintiff on commencing the action. Id. 147. … [Read more...] about DE RETORNO HABENDO
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DE QUO, AND DE QUIBUS
Of which. Formal words In the simple writ of entry, from which it was called a writ of entry "in the quo," or "in the quibus." 3 Reeve, Eng. Law, 33. … [Read more...] about DE QUO, AND DE QUIBUS
DE RIEN CULPABLE
L. Fr. Guilty of nothing; not guilty. … [Read more...] about DE RIEN CULPABLE
DE PARTITIONE FACIENDA
A writ which lay to make partition of lands or tenements held by several as coparceners, tenants In common. … [Read more...] about DE PARTITIONE FACIENDA
DE QUOTA LITIS
The name of a part or contract, in the civil law, by which one who has a claim difficult to recover, agrees with another to give a part for the purpose of obtaining his services to recover the rest. 1 Duv. n. 201. 2. Whenever such an agreement amounts to champerty, it is void by law. In the civil law. A contract by which one who has a claim difficult to recover agrees with … [Read more...] about DE QUOTA LITIS