a question asked of a witness by the attorney that suggests the answer to be given.

A question that is not answered in terms of the law. The question may be answered by a jury in a court of law .

A question that ha sbeen raised about a point of law . It is not answered by the jury but will be answered by the judge.

The investigation of documentts to degermine the level of legality. The documents will have been notified due to a fruadulent practice or situation. Also any investigation of documents to do […]

A list of questions used primarily to conduct research. Four purposes are used for questionnaires. 1. to collect data on a specific topic. 2. to compare data. 3. to keep […]

In old English law . A starter of lawsuits, or prosecutions; also a person chosen to inquire into abuses, especially such as relate to weights and measures; also a church-warden.

Lat. In Romau law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the comitia, as a kind of commissiou, to search out and try all cases of parricide and […]

Lat. A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 Edw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, […]

The time that is taken while being in a queue an dwaiting for work to be done or completed. The time taken for before a result is acheived. The time […]

A model that looks at queing times or waiting times that people and objects spend in the line waiting. It is a mathematical model .

The plaintiff shall take nothing by his bill. A form of judgment for the defendant Latch, 133.

cases, that the parent was not In his right mind. Calvin.; 2 Kent, Comm. 327; Bell.

means to that end. Commonwealth v. Andrews, 3 Mass. 129. Qui destruit medium destruit flnem. He wlio destroys the mean destroys the end. 10 Coke, 516; Co. Litt 161a; Shep. […]

Lat. “Who as well .” Au actiou brought by au informer, uuder a statute which establishes a peualty for the commission or oniissiou of a certain act, aud provides that […]

a Latin term for the legal action to collect a penalty through supplied information .

Lat. Because; whereas; inasmuch as.

Qui non propulsat injuriam quando potest, infert. Jenk. Cent. 271. He who does not repel an Injury when he can, induces it. Qui obstruit aditum, destruit com- modum. lie who […]

Because it is given to us to understand. Formal words in old writs. QUIA EMPTORES 9S1 QUIET

“Because the purchasers.” The title of the statute of Westm. 3. (18 Edw. I. c. 1.) This statute took from the tenants of common lords the feudal liberty they claimed […]

Because it issued erroneously, or through mistake. A term in old English practice. Yel. 83.

Lat. Because he fears or apprehends. In equity practice . The technical name of a bill filed by a party who seeks the aid of a court of equity , […]

A cavilling or verbal objection. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety.

Living; alive. “Quick chattels must be put in pound-overt that the owner may give them sustenance; dead need not.” Finch, Law, b. 2, c. 6.

The amount of a firms most liquid assets . They include stock, cash, accounts recievable, and securities. It is a measure of the current assets minus inventory. Refer to quick […]

Speedy discharge of cargo without allowance for the customs or rules of the port or for delay from the crowded state ofthe harbor or wharf. Mott v. Frost (D. C.) […]