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Quadrans
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QuadransCivil law. The fourth part of the whole. Hence the heir exquad rante; that is to say, the fourth-part of the whole.
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Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Heir
One born in lawful matrimony, who succeeds by descent, and right of blood, to lands, tenements or hereditaments, being an estate of inheritance. It is an established rule of law, that God alone can make an heir. According to many authorities, heir may be nomen collectivuum, as well in a deed as in a will, and operate in both in the same mannar, as heirs in the plural number.
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Quadrant
In angular measures, a quadrant is equal to ninety degrees
Quadriennium utile
Scotch law. The four years of a minor between his age of twenty-one and twenty-five years, are so called.
Quadripartite
Having four parts, or divided into four parts; as, this indenture quadripartite made between A B, of the one part, C D, of the second part, E P, of the third part, and G H, of the fourth part.
Quadroon
A person who is descended from a white person, and another person who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood.
Quadruplication
Pleading. Formerly this word was used instead of surrebutter.
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Quiet cell
In the US penitentiary slang, a security cell with a double door, insulated from noise.
Qauestio
Roman civil law. A sort of commission (ad quaerendum) to inquire into some criminal matter given to a magistrate or citizen, who was called quaesitor or quaestor who made report thereon to the senate or the people, as the one or the other appointed him. In progress, he was empowered (with the assistance of a counsel) to adjudge the case; and the tribunal thus constituted, was called quaestio. This special tribunal continued in use until the end of the Roman republic, although it was resorted to during the last times of the republic, only in extraordinary cases.
Quack
One, who, without sufficient knowledge, study or previous preparation, and without the diploma of some college or university, undertakes to practice medicine or surgery, under the pretence that he possesses secrets in those arts.
Quadrans
Quadrant
In angular measures, a quadrant is equal to ninety degrees
Quadriennium utile
Scotch law. The four years of a minor between his age of twenty-one and twenty-five years, are so called.
Quadripartite
Having four parts, or divided into four parts; as, this indenture quadripartite made between A B, of the one part, C D, of the second part, E P, of the third part, and G H, of the fourth part.
Quadroon
A person who is descended from a white person, and another person who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood.
Quadruplication
Pleading. Formerly this word was used instead of surrebutter.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Heir
One born in lawful matrimony, who succeeds by descent, and right of blood, to lands, tenements or hereditaments, being an estate of inheritance. It is an established rule of law, that God alone can make an heir. According to many authorities, heir may be nomen collectivuum, as well in a deed as in a will, and operate in both in the same mannar, as heirs in the plural number.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Quadrant
In angular measures, a quadrant is equal to ninety degrees
Quadriennium utile
Scotch law. The four years of a minor between his age of twenty-one and twenty-five years, are so called.
Quadripartite
Having four parts, or divided into four parts; as, this indenture quadripartite made between A B, of the one part, C D, of the second part, E P, of the third part, and G H, of the fourth part.
Quadroon
A person who is descended from a white person, and another person who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood.
Quadruplication
Pleading. Formerly this word was used instead of surrebutter.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Quiet cell
In the US penitentiary slang, a security cell with a double door, insulated from noise.
Qauestio
Roman civil law. A sort of commission (ad quaerendum) to inquire into some criminal matter given to a magistrate or citizen, who was called quaesitor or quaestor who made report thereon to the senate or the people, as the one or the other appointed him. In progress, he was empowered (with the assistance of a counsel) to adjudge the case; and the tribunal thus constituted, was called quaestio. This special tribunal continued in use until the end of the Roman republic, although it was resorted to during the last times of the republic, only in extraordinary cases.
Quack
One, who, without sufficient knowledge, study or previous preparation, and without the diploma of some college or university, undertakes to practice medicine or surgery, under the pretence that he possesses secrets in those arts.
Quadrans
Quadrant
In angular measures, a quadrant is equal to ninety degrees
Quadriennium utile
Scotch law. The four years of a minor between his age of twenty-one and twenty-five years, are so called.
Quadripartite
Having four parts, or divided into four parts; as, this indenture quadripartite made between A B, of the one part, C D, of the second part, E P, of the third part, and G H, of the fourth part.
Quadroon
A person who is descended from a white person, and another person who has an equal mixture of the European and African blood.
Quadruplication
Pleading. Formerly this word was used instead of surrebutter.
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