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Quia emptores






Quia emptores

A name sometimes given to the English Statute of Westminster.

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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.

Statute
The written will of the legislature, solemnly expressed according to the forms prescribed in the constitution; an act of the legislature.



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Quia
Pleadings. Because. This word is considered a term of affirmation. It is sufficiently direct and positive for introducing a material averment.

Quia timet
Remedies. Because he fears. According to Lord Coke, "there be six writs of law that may be maintained quia timet, before any molestation, distress, or impleading; as. 1. A man may have his writ or mesne, before he be distrained. 2. A warrantia chartae, before he be impleaded. 3. A monstra-verunt, before any distress or vexation. 4. An audita querela, before any execution sued. 5. A curia claudenda, before any default of inclosure. 6. A ne injuste vexes, before any distress or molestation. And those are called brevia anticipantia, writs of prevention."



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Qui facit per alium, facit per se
He who acts through another acts by himself. The act of the agent is the act of the principal - within the scope of the employment.

Qui non habet, ille non dat
He who does not own cannot transfer.

Qui tacet consentire videtur
He who is silent is regarded as consenting: silence gives consent.

Qui tam
Remedies. Who as well. When a statute imposes a penalty, for the doing or not doing an act, and gives that penalty in part to whosoever will sue for the same, and the other part to the commonwealth, or some charitable, literary, or other institution, and makes it recoverable by action, such actions are called qui tam actions, the plaintiff describing himself as suing as well for the commonwealth, for example, as for himself.

Quia
Pleadings. Because. This word is considered a term of affirmation. It is sufficiently direct and positive for introducing a material averment.

Quia emptores

Quia timet
Remedies. Because he fears. According to Lord Coke, "there be six writs of law that may be maintained quia timet, before any molestation, distress, or impleading; as. 1. A man may have his writ or mesne, before he be distrained. 2. A warrantia chartae, before he be impleaded. 3. A monstra-verunt, before any distress or vexation. 4. An audita querela, before any execution sued. 5. A curia claudenda, before any default of inclosure. 6. A ne injuste vexes, before any distress or molestation. And those are called brevia anticipantia, writs of prevention."

Quibble
A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety; a cavil.

Quick with child
med. jurisp. The motion of the foetus, when felt by the mother, is called quickening, and the mother is then said to be quick with child.

Quid pro quo
This phrase signifies verbatim, what for what. It is applied to the consideration of a contract.

Quidam
French law. Some, one; somebody. This Latin word is used to express an unknown person, or one who cannot be named.

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