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Quantum valebant, means 'as much as they were worth'. At common law, a count in an assumpsit action to recover payment for goods sold and delivered to another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1255.

--(so much as it was worth). Where goods, etc., were delivered at no certain price, or for as much as they were worth in general, then quantum valebat lay, and the plaintiff was to aver them to be worth so much, as where the law obliged one to furnish another with goods or provisions, as an innkeeper to his guests, etc. Compare quantum meruit (supra).