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QUESTOR OR QUAESTOR

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civil law. A name which was given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. One of which was called quaestores classici, and the other quaestores parricidii, 2. The quaestores classici were officers entrusted with the care of the public money. Their duties consisted in making the necessary payments from the aerarium, and receiving the public revenues. Of both, they had to keep … [Read more...]

QUEEN ANNE’S BOUNTY

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A fund created by a charter of Queen Anne, (confirmed by St 2 Ann. c. 11,) for the augmentation of poor livings, consisting of all the revenue of first fruits and tenths, which was vested in trustees forever. 1 Bl. Comm. 286. … [Read more...]

QUESTORES PARRICIDII

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Latin: In Roman law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the comitia, as a kind of commission, to search out and try all cases of parricide and murder. They were proba-. bly appointed annually. Maine, Anc. Law, 370. … [Read more...]

QUEEN’S BENCH

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The English court of king's bench is so called during the reign of a queen. 8 Steph. Comm. 403. See KING'S BENCH. … [Read more...]

QUESTUS EST NOBIS

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Lat. A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 Edw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caused the nuisance to the damage of his neighbor. Cowell. Qui abjurat regnnm amittit regnum, ?ed non regent; patriam, sed non patrem patriae. 7 Coke, 9. … [Read more...]

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