L. Lat To quit-claim or renounce ali pretensions of right and title. Bract fols. 1, 5
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In old English law. Quit; acquitted; discharged. A word used by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors in the exchequer, in their acquittances or discharges given to accountants; usuaily concluding with an abinde recessit quietus, (hath gone quit thereof,) which was called a “quietus est" CowelL
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L. Lat. To quit, acquit, discharge, or save harmless. A formal word in old deeds of donation and other convey-ances. CowelL
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L. Lat. In old English law. Quitclaim. Bract, fol. 33b
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what for what; something for something. Used in law for the giving one valuable thing for another. It is nothing more than the mutual consideration which passes between the parties to a con-tract, and which renders it valid and binding. Cowell
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Lat. Somebody. This term is used in the French law to designate a person whose name is not known
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ln medical jurispru-dence. The first motion of the foetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. See Com. v. Parker, 9 Metc. (Mass.) 266, 43 Am. Dec. 396; State v. Cooper, 22 N. J. Law, 57, 51 Am. Dec. 248; Evans v. People, 49 N. Y. 89.
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In old Eng-llsh practice. A writ which lay for the grantee of a reversion or remainder, where the particular tenant would not attorn, for the purpose of compelling him. Termes de la Ley; Cowell
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Living; alive. “Quick chattels must be put in pound-overt that the owner may give them sustenance; dead need not" Finch, Law, b. 2, c. 6
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Lat Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice. The technical name of a blll filed by a party who seeks the ald of a court of equity, because he fears some future probable injury to his rights or interests. 2 Story, Eq. Jur. | 826
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A cavilling or verbal ohjec-tion. A sllght difllculty raised without ne-cesslty or propriety
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“Because the pur-chasere.” The title of the statute of westm. S. (18 Edw. L c. 1.) This statute took from the tenants of common lords the feudal lib-erty they claimed of disposing of part of their lands to hold of themselves, and, in-stead of it, gave them a general liberty to sell all or any part, to hold of the next superlor lord, which they could not have done before without consent The effect of this statute was twofold: (1) To facilitate the alienation of fee-simple estates; and (2) to put an end to the creation of any new manors, i. e., tenancies in fee-simple of a sub-ject Brown
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Because it issued erroneously, or through mis-take. A term in old English practice. Tel. 83
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GI. Because it is given to us to understand. Formal words in old writs,
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Lat A writ of nuisance, whicb, by 15 Fdw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caus-ed the nuisance to the damage of his neigh-bor. Cowell
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Lat. In Roman law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the eomitia, as a kind of commission, to search out and try all cases of parricide and murder. They were proba-bly appointed annually. Maine, Anc. Law, 370
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In old records. A quest; an inquest, inquisition, or inquiry, upon the oaths of an Impaneled jury. Oowell
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A method of criminal ex-amination heretofore in use in some of the countries of continental Europe, consisting of the application of torture to the supposed criminal, by means of the rack or other engines, in order to- extort from him, as the condition of his release from the torture, a confession of his own guilt or the names of his accomplices
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Lat. In the civil law. A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the will, founded on the presumption of law, in such
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Lat. An action preferred in any court of justice. The plaintiff was called “querens," or complainant and hls brief, complaint, or declaration was called “querela." Jacob
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