Q Dictionary
Question-and-answer
Question-and-answer, means the portion of a deposition or trial transcript in which evidence is developed through a series of questions asked by the lawyer and answered by the witness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1260....
Quiesce
To be silent as a letter to have no sound...
Quiescence
The state or quality of being quiescent...
Quiescent
Being in a state of repose at rest still not moving as a quiescent body or fluid...
Quiescently
In a quiescent manner...
quiet
quiet : free from disturbance, interference, or dispute (as from an adverse claim) [ enjoyment of property] ...
Quiet
In a state of rest or calm without stir motion or agitation still as a quiet sea quiet air...
Quiet
Quiet, means to make secure or unassailable by removing disturbing causes or disputes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1261....
Quiet enjoyment
Quiet enjoyment. A qualified covenant for quiet enjoyment is usually inserted in leases and excludes the implied covenant, which is far more extensive. For the implied covenant may guarantee the lessee against any lawful entry whatever, whereas the express covenant, as usually worded, guarantees the lessee only against entry by the lessor or persons 'claiming by, from, or under him,' so that a lessor having no title to the demised premises may safely enter into the qualified covenant for quiet enjoyment, for an ejectment of the lessee by the real owner would not be an ejectment by a person claiming by the lessor, but against him, See Woodfall, L. & T., and Baynes v. Lloyd, (1895) 2 QB 610; Jones v. Lavington, (1903) 1 KB 253.A covenant for quiet enjoyment is implied by virtue of s. 7 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1881, reproduced under ss. 76 and 77 of the Law of Property Act, 1925, Sched. 2, Parts 1, 2, in any conveyance for value made after the commencement of that Act by a pers...
Quod
A quadrangle or court as of a prison hence a prison...