Latin, meaning When there is no ambiguity in words, then no exposition contrary to the expressed words is to be made. … [Read more...]
QUOD PERSONA NEC PREBENDARII, ETC
A writ which lay for spiritual persons, distrained in their spiritual possessions, for payment of a fifteenth with the rest of the parish. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 175. Obsolete. Quod populus postromum jussit, id jus ratum esto. What the people have last enacted, let that be the established law. A law of the Twelve Table, the principle of which is still recognized. 1 Bl. Comm. 89. Quod … [Read more...]
QUOTUPLEX
Of how many kinds; how many fold. A term of frequent occurrence in Sheppard's Touchstone. … [Read more...]
QUITCLAIM DEED
A real estate term referring to a property deed transferring whatever ownership interest the transferor has in a particular property; whatever that may be and without any guarantees. … [Read more...]
QUOD CUM
In pleading. For that whereas. A form of introducing matter of inducement in certain actions, as assumpsit and case. Quod datum est ecolesisB, datum est Deo. 2 Inst 2. What is given to the church is given to God. Quod demonstrandi oausa additur rei satis, demonstrate, frustra nt. 10 Coke, 113. What is added to a thing sufficiently palpable, for the purpose of demonstration, is … [Read more...]