Questus Est Nobis - Definition - Law Dictionary

Definition :

Questus est nobis, a writ of nuisance which, by 15 Edw. 1, lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated; whereas before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caused the nuisance to the damage of his neighbour.

Means 'hath complained to us', a writ against someone who continued a nuisance that existed before inheritance or purchase. The former law provided recovery only against the party who had first caused the nuisance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1260.