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Latin abbreviation for Quod vide. … [Read more...] about QV

That if it happen. Words by which a condition might formerly be created in a deed. Litt. f 330. Quod sub eerta forma conoeasum eel reservatum est non trahitur ad valorem vel compensationem. That which is granted or reserved under a certain form is not [permitted to be] drawn into valuation or compensation. Bac. Max. 26, reg. 4. That which is granted or reserved in a certain … [Read more...] about QUOD SI CONTINGAT

Latin, meaning The law does not require what is vain and useless. … [Read more...] about QUOD VANUM ET INUTILE EST LEX NON REQUIRIT

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...] about QUOD VIDE

(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...] about QUONIAM ATTACHIAMENTA