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Whichever way you take it. … [Read more...] about QUACUNQUE VIA DATA

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...] about QUAE NIHIL FRUSTRA

Latin: The fortieth. The flrst Sunday in Lent is so called because It is about the fortieth day before Easter. Cowell. … [Read more...] about QUADRAGESIMA

Lat. In old English practice. A writ which lay where an Inquisition had been made by an escheator in any county of such lands or tenements as any man died seised of, and all that was in his possession was imagined not to be found by the office; the writ commanding the escheator to inquire what more (quw plura) lands and tenements the party held on the day when he died, etc … [Read more...] about QUAE PLURA

Offerings formerly made, on Mid-Lent Sunday, to the mother church. … [Read more...] about QUADRAGESIMALS