Used substantively, quorum signifies the number of persons belonging to a legislative assembly, a corporation, society, or other body, required to transact business; there is a difference between an act done by a definite number of persons, and one performed by an indefinite number: in the first case a majority is required to constitute a quorum, unless the law expressly … [Read more...] about QUORUM
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QUOD NON HABET PRINCIPIUM NON HABET FINEM
Latin, meaning What has no beginning has no end. … [Read more...] about QUOD NON HABET PRINCIPIUM NON HABET FINEM
QUOSQUE
Lat. How long; how far; until In old conveyances it is used as a word of limitation. 10 Coke, 41 … [Read more...] about QUOSQUE
QUOD NOT A
Which note; which mark. A reporter's note in the old books, directing attention to a point or rule. Dyer, 23. Quod nullius esse potest id ut alieu-Jns floret nulla obligatio valet effleere. No agreement can avail to make that the property of any one which cannot be acquired as property. Dig. 50,17, 182. Quod nullius est. est domini regis. That which is the property of nobody … [Read more...] about QUOD NOT A
QUOT
In old Scotch law. A twentieth part of the movable estate of a person dying, which was due to the bishop of the diocese within which the person resided. Bell. … [Read more...] about QUOT