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Quaestor
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Quaestor1) Quaestor or Questor. The name of a magistrate of ancient Rome. 2) Civil law. A name which was given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. One of which was called quaestores classici, and the other quaestores parricidii.
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Quaestor
1) Quaestor or Questor. The name of a magistrate of ancient Rome. 2) Civil law. A name which was given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. One of which was called quaestores classici, and the other quaestores parricidii.
Questor
Questor or quaestor. Civil law. A name which was given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. One of which was called quaestores classici, and the other quaestores parricidii.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
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.
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Quae est eadem
Pleading. Which is the same.
Quaeitur
(United Kingdom) The question is raised.
Quaere
Practice. A word frequently used to denote that an inquiry ought to be made of a doubtful thing.
Quaerens non invenit plegium
Practice. The plaintiff has not found pledge. The return made by the sheriff to a writ directed to him with this clause, namely, si A facerit B securum de clamore suo prosequando, when the plaintiff has neglected to find sufficient security.
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Quadruplication
Pleading. Formerly this word was used instead of surrebutter.
Quae est eadem
Pleading. Which is the same.
Quaeitur
(United Kingdom) The question is raised.
Quaere
Practice. A word frequently used to denote that an inquiry ought to be made of a doubtful thing.
Quaerens non invenit plegium
Practice. The plaintiff has not found pledge. The return made by the sheriff to a writ directed to him with this clause, namely, si A facerit B securum de clamore suo prosequando, when the plaintiff has neglected to find sufficient security.
Quaestor
Quakers
A sect of Christians.
Qualification
Having the requisite qualities for a thing; as, to be president of the United States, the candidate must possess certain qualifications.
Qualified
This term is frequently used in law. A man hag a qualified property in animals ferae naturae, while they remain in his power, but, as soon as they regain their liberty, his property in them is lost. A man has a qualified right to recover property of which he is not the owner, but which was unlawfully taken out of his possession. But this right may be defeated by the owner bring a suit or claiming the property.
Qualified domestic relations order
Qdro. A court ruling stating that a portion of one spouse's pension be awarded to the other spouse as part of the equitable distribution of the marital assets.
Qualified fee
Estates. One which has a qualification subjoined to it, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at an end. A Iimitation to a man and his heirs on the part of his father, affords an example of this species of estate.
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Quaestor
1) Quaestor or Questor. The name of a magistrate of ancient Rome. 2) Civil law. A name which was given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. One of which was called quaestores classici, and the other quaestores parricidii.
Questor
Questor or quaestor. Civil law. A name which was given to two distinct classes of Roman officers. One of which was called quaestores classici, and the other quaestores parricidii.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Magistrate
Mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as justices of the peace.
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.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Quae est eadem
Pleading. Which is the same.
Quaeitur
(United Kingdom) The question is raised.
Quaere
Practice. A word frequently used to denote that an inquiry ought to be made of a doubtful thing.
Quaerens non invenit plegium
Practice. The plaintiff has not found pledge. The return made by the sheriff to a writ directed to him with this clause, namely, si A facerit B securum de clamore suo prosequando, when the plaintiff has neglected to find sufficient security.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Quadruplication
Pleading. Formerly this word was used instead of surrebutter.
Quae est eadem
Pleading. Which is the same.
Quaeitur
(United Kingdom) The question is raised.
Quaere
Practice. A word frequently used to denote that an inquiry ought to be made of a doubtful thing.
Quaerens non invenit plegium
Practice. The plaintiff has not found pledge. The return made by the sheriff to a writ directed to him with this clause, namely, si A facerit B securum de clamore suo prosequando, when the plaintiff has neglected to find sufficient security.
Quaestor
Quakers
A sect of Christians.
Qualification
Having the requisite qualities for a thing; as, to be president of the United States, the candidate must possess certain qualifications.
Qualified
This term is frequently used in law. A man hag a qualified property in animals ferae naturae, while they remain in his power, but, as soon as they regain their liberty, his property in them is lost. A man has a qualified right to recover property of which he is not the owner, but which was unlawfully taken out of his possession. But this right may be defeated by the owner bring a suit or claiming the property.
Qualified domestic relations order
Qdro. A court ruling stating that a portion of one spouse's pension be awarded to the other spouse as part of the equitable distribution of the marital assets.
Qualified fee
Estates. One which has a qualification subjoined to it, and which must be determined whenever the qualification annexed to it is at an end. A Iimitation to a man and his heirs on the part of his father, affords an example of this species of estate.
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