med. jurisp. The motion of the foetus, when felt by the mother, is called quickening, and the mother is then said to be quick with child. 1 Beck's Med. Jurisp. 172; 1 Russ. on Cr. 553. 2. This happens at different periods of pregnancy in different women, and in different circumstances, but most usually about the fifteenth or sixteenth week after conception. 3 Camp. Rep. 97. 3. … [Read more...]

In Roman law. Magistrates who had the care and inspection of roads. Dig. 1, 2, 3, 30. … [Read more...]

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estates. A wharf at which to load or land goods, sometimes spelled key. 2. In its enlarged sense the word quay, means the whole space between the first row of houses of a city, and the sea or river 5 L. R. 152, 215. So much of the quay as is requisite for the public use of loading and unloading vessels, is public property, and cannot be appropriated to private use, but the rest … [Read more...]

In old records. A quest; an inquest, inquisition, or inquiry, upon the oaths of an impaneled jury. Cowell. … [Read more...]