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Terms
- Quaere
- Latin for "query" as in an issue on which some doubt or question exists.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quaere
- Qualified Privilege
- A defence in defamation actions that defeats the claim when the alleged defamation issues during specified occasions.
Expanded Legal Definition of Qualified Privilege
- Quantum
- Latin: amount or extent.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quantum
- Quantum Meruit
- Latin: as much as is deserved.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quantum Meruit
- Quash
- To set aside.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quash
- Quasi-Contract
- Civil law: a contract implied and imposed by law resulting from certain actions of a person.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quasi-Contract
- Quasi-Delict
- Civil law: a delict (wrong) caused by negligence.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quasi-Delict
- Quasi-Judicial
- Administrative tribunals or government officials which, in their decision-making process, are subject to the rules of natural justice.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quasi-Judicial
- Queen's Counsel
- An archaic designation of a barrister, phased out in most jurisdiction, indicating of its title holder faithfulness to the Crown, but more recently, contribution to the profession of lawyers.
Expanded Legal Definition of Queen's Counsel
- Question of Privilege
- A term of parliamentary law and procedure which refers to an urgent motion made at a meeting which seeks an immediate ruling on an alleged violation of the rights or privileges of members as a whole, or in regards to a negative personal remark.
Expanded Legal Definition of Question of Privilege
- Quia Emptores
- A 1290 English statute that held that notwithstanding the subdivision (subinfeudation) of a feeholding; the new tenant owed feudal rights and obligations not to the seller but to the Land Lord.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quia Emptores
- Quicquid Plantatur Solo, Solo Cedit
- Latin: whatever is planted in the ground, belongs to the ground.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quicquid Plantatur Solo, Solo Cedit
- Quid Pro Quo
- Latin: something for something.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quid Pro Quo
- Quiet Enjoyment
- A landlord's obligation to provide the tenant with reasonable privacy and freedom from any interference with the tenant's exclusive use and enjoyment of the rented premises.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quiet Enjoyment
- Qui Facit Per Alium Facit Per Se
- Latin: he who acts through another, acts himself.
Expanded Legal Definition of Qui Facit Per Alium Facit Per Se
- Qui Jure Suo Utitur Neminem Facit Injuriam
- Latin: he who exercises his legal rights harms no one.
Expanded Legal Definition of Qui Jure Suo Utitur Neminem Facit Injuriam
- Qui Non Obstat Quod Obstare Potest, Facere Videtur
- Latin: an individual who does not prevent something which he/she could of prevented, is taken to have done that thing.
Expanded Legal Definition of Qui Non Obstat Quod Obstare Potest, Facere Videtur
- Quistclose Trust
- A trust which arises to the benefit of the donor when property is advanced for a specific purpose and that purpose fails.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quistclose Trust
- Quitclaim
- A document in which a person who has an alleged interest in real property, transfers this interest to another.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quitclaim
- Quorum
- The minimum number of voting members that must be in attendance at a meeting of an organization for that meeting to be regularly constituted.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quorum
- Quo Warranto
- Latin: legal procedure taken to stop a person or organization from doing something for which it may not have the legal authority, by demanding to know by what right they exercise the controversial authority.
Expanded Legal Definition of Quo Warranto
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