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Quiet cell
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Quiet cellIn the US penitentiary slang, a security cell with a double door, insulated from noise.
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Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
Security
That which renders a matter sure; an instrument which renders certain the performance of a contract. The term is also sometimes applied to designate a person who becomes the surety for another, or who engages himself for the performance of another's contract.
Cell
A small room in a prison.
Double
Twofold.
Door
The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house.
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Quiet enjoyment
In leases there are frequently covenants by which the lessor agrees that the lessee shall peaceably enjoy the premises leased; this is called a covenant for quiet enjoyment. This covenant goes to the possession and not to the title.
Quiet title action
A court proceeding to remove a cloud on the title to real property.
Quietus
English law. A discharge; an acquittance.
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Quiet cell
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
Civil law. The fourth part of the whole. Hence the heir exquad rante; that is to say, the fourth-part of the whole.
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.
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Penitentiary
A prison for the punishment of convicts.
Security
That which renders a matter sure; an instrument which renders certain the performance of a contract. The term is also sometimes applied to designate a person who becomes the surety for another, or who engages himself for the performance of another's contract.
Cell
A small room in a prison.
Double
Twofold.
Door
The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house.
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Quiet enjoyment
In leases there are frequently covenants by which the lessor agrees that the lessee shall peaceably enjoy the premises leased; this is called a covenant for quiet enjoyment. This covenant goes to the possession and not to the title.
Quiet title action
A court proceeding to remove a cloud on the title to real property.
Quietus
English law. A discharge; an acquittance.
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Quiet cell
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
Civil law. The fourth part of the whole. Hence the heir exquad rante; that is to say, the fourth-part of the whole.
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.
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