Latin, meaning The law does not require what is vain and useless. … [Read more...]

Which see. A direction to the reader to look to another part of the book, or to another book, there named, for further information. Qnod volnit non dixit. What he intended he did not say, or express. An answer sometimes made in overruling an argument that the law maker or testator meant so and so. 1 Kent, Comm. 468, note; Mann v. Mann's Ex'rs, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 235. … [Read more...]

(Since the attachments.) One of the oldest books in the Scotch law. So called from the two first words of the volume. Jacob; Whishaw. … [Read more...]

Which was not denied. A phrase found in the old reports, signifying that an argument or proposition was not denied or controverted by the court Latch, 213. Quod non habet principium non babet finem. Wing. Max. 79; Co. Litt 345a. That which has not beginning has not end. Quod non legitur, non creditor. What is not read is not believed. 4 Coke, 304. Quod non valet in principal!, … [Read more...]

Used substantively, quorum signifies the number of persons belonging to a legislative assembly, a corporation, society, or other body, required to transact business; there is a difference between an act done by a definite number of persons, and one performed by an indefinite number: in the first case a majority is required to constitute a quorum, unless the law expressly … [Read more...]