Quare Intrusit - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition quare-intrusit

Definition :

Quare intrusit, a writ that formerly lay where the Lord proffered a suitable marriage to his ward, who rejected it, and entered into the land, and married another, for the value of his marriage not being satisfied to the Lord. Abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24.

Means 'why he thrust in'. A writ allowing a lord to recover the value of a marriage, when the Lord offered a suitable marriage to a ward but the ward rejected it and married someone else, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1256.