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To quash
To quashPractice. To overthrow or annul. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Practice The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- To quarter A barbarous punishment formerly inflicted on criminals by tearing them to pieces by means of four horses, one attached to each limb. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- To pack 1) To deceive by false appearance; to counterfeit; to delude; as packing a jury. 2) Civil law. An agreement made by two or more persons on the same subject in order to form some engagement, or to dissolve or modify, one already made, conventio est duorum in idem placitum consensus de re solvenda, id. est facienda vel praestanda. To pass To accomplish, to complete, to decide. To plunder The capture of personal property on land by a public enemy, with a view of making it his own. The property so captured is called plunder. To put Pleading. To select, to demand; as, the said C D puts himself upon the country; that is, he selects the trial by jury, as the mode of settling the matter in dispute, and does not rely upon an issue in law. To quarter A barbarous punishment formerly inflicted on criminals by tearing them to pieces by means of four horses, one attached to each limb. To quash To set aside To annul; to make void; as to set aside an award. To utter Criminal law. To offer, to publish. To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert and declare, directly or indirectly, by words or actions, that the note offered is good. It is not necessary that it should be passed in order to complete the offence of uttering. Toft A place or piece of ground on which, a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay; it also signifies a messuage. Togati Roman civil law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This denomination received an official or legal sense in the imperial constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries, and the words togati, consortium (corpus, ordo, collegium,) togatorum, frequently occur in those acts. Token 1) Contracts, crimes. A document or sign of the existence of a fact. 2) Commercial law. In England, this name is given to pieces of metal, made in the shape of money, passing among private persons by consent at a certain value. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for To quash. If you have a better definition for To quash than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of To quash may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on To quash and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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