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Quarrel

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Quarrel, a dispute, contest; also, an action real or personal.

Means an altercation or angry dispute; an exchange of recriminations, taunts, threats, or accusations between two persons, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1256.

Quarrel, is derived from querendo, and extends not only to actions as well real as personal, but also to the causes of actions and suits; so that by the release of all quarrels, not only actions depending in suit, but causes of actions and suit also are released; and quarrels, controversies and debates, are words of one sense, and of one and the same significations, Termes etc. la ley 330 (1st Am. Edn., 1812).

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