A writ which lay for spiritual persons, distrained in their spiritual possessions, for payment of a fifteenth with the rest of the parish. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 175. Obsolete. Quod populus postromum jussit, id jus ratum esto. What the people have last enacted, let that be the established law. A law of the Twelve Table, the principle of which is still recognized. 1 Bl. Comm. 89. Quod … [Read more...]

Of how many kinds; how many fold. A term of frequent occurrence in Sheppard's Touchstone. … [Read more...]

Latin, meaning What is first is more true; and what is prior in time is stronger in law. … [Read more...]

A Latin adverb, which signifies how long, how far, until. 2. In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Co. 41. 3. In practice it is the name of an execution which is to have force until the defendant shall do a certain thing. Of this kind is the capias ad satisfaciendum, by virtue of which the body of the defendant is taken into execution, and he is imprisoned … [Read more...]

That he do abate. The name of a judgment upon an indictment for a nuisance, that the defendant abate such nuisance. Quod pure debetur prsesenti die debe tur. That which is due unconditionally is due now. Tray. Leg. Max. 519. Quod quis ex culpa sua damnum sen tit non intelligitur damnum sentire. The damage which one experiences from his own fault is not considered as his damage. … [Read more...]