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Qu' Plura

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Qu' plura, a writ which lay where an inquisition had been taken by an escheator of lands, etc., of which a man died seised, and all the land was supposed not to be found by the office or inquisition; it was to inquire of what more lands or tenements the party died seised, Reg. Brev. 293. Rendered useless by 12 Car. 2, c. 24.

Means a writ ordering the escheator, when it appeared that not all of a decedent's property had been located, to inquire about any additional lands and tenements the decedent held at the time of death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253.

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