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...]

The constitution of the United States, Amendm. art. 3, provides that no soldier shall in time of peace be quartered, in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law. By quartering is understood boarding and lodging or either. Encycl. Amer. h. t. … [Read more...]

torts, civil law. Those acts which, although not committed by the persons responsible for them, are by implication of law supposed to have been committed by their command, by other persons for whom they are answerable. They are also injuries which have been caused by one person to another, without any intention to hurt them. 2. Of the first class of quasi offences are the … [Read more...]

The act of a government in billeting or assigning soldiers to private houses, without the consent of the owners of such houses, and requiring such owners to supply them with board or lodging or both. … [Read more...]

Partners of lands, goods, or chattels, who are not actual partners, are sometimes so called. … [Read more...]