When a married couple moves to a community property state from a non-community property state, the property which the couple acquired together within and under the rules of the non-community property state may be called quasi-community property. It is treated the same as community property. … [Read more...]

Latin: On the fourth day after. Appearance day, In the former English practice, the defendant being allowed four days, inclusive, from the return of the writ, to make his appearance. … [Read more...]

practice. To overthrow or annul. 2. When proceedings are clearly irregular and void the courts will quash them, both in civil and criminal cases: for example, when the array is clearly irregular, as if the jurors have been selected by persons not authorized by law, it will be quashed. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3342. 3. In criminal cases, when an indictment is so defective that no … [Read more...]

Latin: As if; as it were; analogous to. This term is used in legal phraseology to Indicate that one subject resembles another, with which it is compared, in certain characteristics, but that there are also intrinsic differences between them. It is exclusively a term of classification. Prefixed to a term of Roman law, it implies that the conception to which it serves as an index … [Read more...]

Unjust enrichment, implied in fact contract. When a court acts as if an actual contract existed when one may have been implied by law in order to prevent another party from being unjustly enriched. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition A term used in the civil law. A quasi-contract is the act of a person, permitted by law, by which he obligates himself towards another, … [Read more...]