A wharf for the loading or unloading of goods carried in ships. This word is sometimes spelled “key.” The popular and commercial signification of the word “quay” involves the notion […]

L. Fr. Which is the same. A term used In actions of trespass, etc. See QU/E EST EADEM.

L. Fr. Whose estate. A term used in pleading, particularly in claiming prescription , by which it is alleged that the plaintiff and those former owners ichose estate he has […]

A worthless woman; a strumpet. Obsolete.

A woman who possesses the sovereignty and royal power in a country under a monarchical form of government. The wife of a king.

A fund created by a charter of Queen Anne, (confirmed by St. 2 Ann. c. 11,) for the augmenta- tion of poor livings, consisting of all the revenue of first […]

The English court of king’s bench is so called during the reign of a queen. 3 Steph. Comm. 403. See KING’S BENCH .

A position in UK courts that can be bestowed on a barrister with at least 10 years experience who is then recommended for the position. The Lord Chancellor will offer […]

A jail which used to be appropriated to the debtors and criminals confined under process or by authority of the superior courts at Westminster , the high court of admiralty […]

L. Lat. An old writ which lay where a rent-charge or other rent which was not rent service was granted by fine holding of the grantor. If the tenant would […]

Lat. An action preferred in any court of justice. The plaintiff was called “querens,” or complainant and his brief, complaint, or declaration was called “querela.” Jacob.

A writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the king himself, before the king and his council. Beg. Orig. 124.

ology to indicate that one subject resembles another, with which it Is compared, in cer- tain characteristics, but that there are also intrinsic differences between them. It is exclusively a […]

at. In the civil law . A species of action allowed to a child who had been unjustly disinherited, to set aside the will, founded on tbe presumption of law […]

Lat A plaintiff; complainant ; inquirer.

This term means to be full of complaints, be a habitual complainer, to continually find fault and to be peevish.

The request fro information from a data base. It is in the form of a question and it can be asked about any subject that is contained in the specific […]

An example is provided that a query is similar to. The data base will look for items with the same characteristic.

Also known as structured query language . The form that can be filled in order to start a search for some specific information .

In old records. A quest; an inquest, inquisition , or inquiry, upon the oaths of an impaneled jury. Cowell.

A method of criminal examination heretofore in use in some of the countries of coutineutal Europe, consisting of the application of torture to the supposed criminal, by means of the […]

Those who carried qua’sta about from door to door.

the description of a question that is able to be answered with a yes or a no.

See hypothetical questions .

a matter that will be decided in a court of law .