A technique used to solve problems which uses the fastest method to solve the problem. It is not necessarily the best solution but it will work before the ideal solution […]
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QUICK RATIO
A companies ability to use its near cash and quick assets to absorb liabilities.
QUICK RESPONSE
A partnership strategy thatb results in a quick turnover for orders. The main aim is to reduce the rsponse time to a bare minimum and still supply the required products. […]
QUICK WITH CHILD
See QUICKENING.
QUICKBOOKS
A software package that is used for bokkeeping that incorporates many programs into one easy to use program. The software is customisable and incorporates spreadsheets, tables and tracking sheets in […]
QUICKEN
1. Personal finance software. It is a program that will anable everyone to cope with their own financial tasks in one easy to us eprogram. 2. To make something happen […]
QUICKENING
In medical Jurisprudence . The first motion of the foetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of tbe term of pregnancy. See Com. v. […]
QUICKTIME
A multi media software that enables people to watch and make videos, music and animation films. Developed and distributed by Apple. It is used to playback files that have been […]
QUID JURIS CLAMAT
In old English practice. A writ which lay for the grantee of a reversion or remainder, where the particular tenant would not attorn, for the purpose of compelling him. Termes […]
QUID PRO QUO
What for what; something for something. Used in law for the giving one valuable thing for another. It is nothing more than the mutual consideration which passes between the parties […]
QUIDAM
Lat. Somebody. This term is used in the French law to designate a person whose name is not known. Quidquid cnim sive dolo et culpa ven- ditoris accidit in eo […]
QUiERE
A query; question; doubt This word, occurring in tbe syllabus of a reported case or elsewhere, shows that a question is propounded as to what follows, or that the particular […]
QUiERENS
Lat. A plaintiff; the plaintiff.
QUiERENS NON INVENIT PEEGIUM
L. Lat. The plaintiff did not find a pledge. A return formerly made by a sheriff to a writ requiring him to take security of the plaintiff to prosecute his […]
QUiESTUS
L. Lat. That estate which a man has by acquisition or purchase, in con- tradistinction to “hwreditas,” which is what he has by descent. Clan. 1, 7, c. 1.
QUIET ENJOYMENT
The term quiet here does not mean that there is no noise. Here it means that there is no outside interference with an activity. An activity is enjoyed without the […]
QUIET PERIOD
When a company cannot share any news because it is registering a new issue.
QUIET POSSESSION
Again the term does not mean with no noise. It means with no interference from another party. Each sale carries the implication that it can be owned without any interference.
QUIET TITLE
a suit brought about to obtain a determination as to the title of a certain piece of property.
QUIET,
adj. Unmolested ; tranquil; free from interference or disturbance .
QUIET, v
To pacify; to render secure or unassailable by the removal of disquieting causes or disputes. This is the meaning of tbe word in the phrase “action to quiet title .” […]
QUIETARE L
Lat. To quit, acquit, discharge, or save harmless. A formal word iu old deeds of donation and other conveyances. Cowell.
QUIETE CLAMANTIA L
Lat. In old English law . Quitclaim. Bract, fol. 336.
QUIETE CLAMARE L
Lat To quitclaim or renounce all pretensions of right and title. Bract fols. 1, 5.
QUIETING THE TITLE
a court proceeding to remove a cloud from a property title. See cloud on title .