pleading. Formerly this word was used instead of surrebutter. … [Read more...]
QUACK
One, who, without sufficient knowledge, study or previous preparation, and without the diploma of some college or university, undertakes to practice medicine or surgery, under the pretense that he possesses secrets in those arts. 2. He is criminally answerable for his unskillful practice, and also, civilly to his patient in certain cases. Vide Mala praxis; Physician. … [Read more...]
QUAE EST EADEM
pleading. Which is the same. 2. When the defendant in trespass justifies, that the trespass justified in the plea is the same as that complained of in the declaration; this clause is called quae est eadem. Gould. Pl. c. 3, s. 79, 80. 3. The form is as follows: which are the same assaulting, heating and ill-treating, the said John, in the said declaration mentioned, and whereof … [Read more...]
QUACUNQUE VIA DATA
Whichever way you take it. … [Read more...]
QUAE NIHIL FRUSTRA
Lat. Which [does or requires] nothing in vain. Which requires nothing to be done, that is, to no purpose. 2 Kent, Comm. 53. Qnss non neri dobent, facta Talent. Things which ought not to be done are held valid when they have been done Tray. Latin: Max. 484. Qnss non valeant singula, juncta ju-Tant. Things which do not avail when separate, when joined avail. 3 Bulst' 132; Broom, … [Read more...]