Those who carried queeata about from door to door
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L^ Lat. The plaintiff did not find a pledge. A return formerly made by a sheriff to a writ requiring him to take security of the plaintiff to prosecute hls- claim. Cowell.
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An lndulgence or remlsslon of penance, sold by the pope
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Lat in old Engllsh practice. A writ which lay where an inqnl-sltlon 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 es-cheator to inquire what more (qua plura) lands and tenements the party held on the day when he died, etc. Fitzh. Net. Brev. 255a; Cowell
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A query; question; doubt This word, occurring in the syllabus of a re-ported case or elsewhere, shows that a ques-tion ia propounded as to what follows, or that the particular rule, decision, or state-ment is considered as open to question
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Lat which is the same, words used for alleging that the trespass or other fact mentioned in the plea is the same as that laid in the declaration, where, from the circumstances, there is au apparent difference between the two. 1 ChiL Pl. *582
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Lat which [does or requires] nothing in vain, which requires nothing to be done, that is, to no purpose. 2 Kent, Comm. 53
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Lat in Romau law. Informers who, lf their information were followed by conviction, had the fourth part of the confiscated goods for their trouble
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Lat in the civU law. A pleading on the part of a defendant, corresponding to the rebutter at common law. The third pleading on the part of the defendant. Inst. 4, 14, 3; 3 BL Comm. 310
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Divided into four parts. A term applied.in conveyancing to an indenture executed in four parts
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A person who is descended from a white person and another person who has an §qual mixture of the European and African blood. State v. Davis, 2 Bailey (S. C.) 558
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Lat. In the civil law. The four-years course ot study re-qulred to be pursued by law-students before they were qualified to study the Code or collection of imperial constltutlotB. See Inst proem
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In Scotch law. The term of four years allowed to a minor, after his majority, in which he may by suit or action endeavor to annul any deed to his prejudice, granted during his minority. Bell
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In old records. A stone-pit or quarry. Cowell
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Lat. In Roman law. The fourth part; the quarter of any number, measure, or quantity. Hence an heir to the fourth part of the inheritance was called “baeres ex quadrante” Also a Roman coin, being the fourth part of an as, equal in value to an English half-penny
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offerings former-ly made, on Mid-Lent Sunday, to the mother church
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The third volume of the year bodks of the reign of Edward III. So called because beginning with the fortieth year of that sovereign’s reign. Crabb, Eng. Law, 327
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Lat The fortieth. The first Sunday iu Lent is so called because it is about the fortieth day before Easter. Oowell
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N. An abbreviation of “quare exe-cutionem non," wherefore execution [should] not [be issued
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A pretender to medical skill which he does not possess; one who practices as a physician or surgeon without adequate preparation or due qualification. See El-mergreen v. Horn, 115 wis. 385, 91 N. W. 973
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B. D. An abbreviation of “Queen’s Bench Division.”
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F. An abbreviation of “quare clausum fregit,” (q. v
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