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L. Lat To quit-claim or renounce ali pretensions of right and title. Bract fols. 1, 5 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In old English law. Quit; acquitted; discharged. A word used by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors in the exchequer, in […]

L. Lat. To quit, acquit, discharge, or save harmless. A formal word in old deeds of donation and other convey-ances. CowelL Source: […]

L. Lat. In old English law. Quitclaim. Bract, fol. 33b Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

what for what; something for something. Used in law for the giving one valuable thing for another. It is nothing more than […]

Lat. Somebody. This term is used in the French law to designate a person whose name is not known Source: Black's Law […]

ln medical jurispru-dence. The first motion of the foetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of […]

In old Eng-llsh practice. A writ which lay for the grantee of a reversion or remainder, where the particular tenant would not […]

Living; alive. “Quick chattels must be put in pound-overt that the owner may give them sustenance; dead need not" Finch, Law, b. […]

See QUICKEN-IN G Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice. The technical name of a blll filed by a party who seeks the […]

A cavilling or verbal ohjec-tion. A sllght difllculty raised without ne-cesslty or propriety Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

“Because the pur-chasere.” The title of the statute of westm. S. (18 Edw. L c. 1.) This statute took from the tenants […]

Because it issued erroneously, or through mis-take. A term in old English practice. Tel. 83 Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. Because; whereas; inasmuch as Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

GI. Because it is given to us to understand. Formal words in old writs, Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat A writ of nuisance, whicb, by 15 Fdw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused […]

LaL “who as weU---------------.” Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

r QUESTMONGER. In Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. In Roman law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the eomitia, as a kind of commission, to search […]

In old records. A quest; an inquest, inquisition, or inquiry, upon the oaths of an Impaneled jury. Oowell Source: Black's Law Dictionary […]

A method of criminal ex-amination heretofore in use in some of the countries of continental Europe, consisting of the application of torture […]

Lat. In the civil law. A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the […]

Lat. A plaintiff; complain-ant; Inquirer Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Lat. An action preferred in any court of justice. The plaintiff was called “querens," or complainant and hls brief, complaint, or declaration […]