Latin meaning as if against a thing. A basis for jurisdiction against an out of state party where jurisdiction may be acquired when a person has a property interest that is located within the court's jurisdiction. … [Read more...]

In English criminal law. The dividing a criminal's body into quarters, after execution. A part of the punishment of high treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 93. … [Read more...]

The decisions of an administrative agency or other government body that conducts hearings which are similar to an actual court proceeding. … [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...]