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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...] about QUESTORES PARRICIDII

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...] about QUEEN’S BENCH

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...] about QUESTUS EST NOBIS

A jail which used to be appropriated to the debtors and criminals confined under process or by authority of the superior courts at Westminster, the high court of admiralty, and also to persons imprisoned under the bankrupt law. … [Read more...] about QUEEN’S PRISON

Latin meaning He who acts through another acts himself. … [Read more...] about QUI FACIT PER ALIUM FACIT PER SE