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Quod a quoquo pane nomine exactum est id eidem restituere nemo cogitur

Quod a quoquo pane nomine exactum est id eidem restituere nemo cogitur (D. 50, 17, 46), no one is obliged to restore that which has been exacted by way of penalty....


Quod ab initio non valet, in tractu temporis non convalescit

Quod ab initio non valet, in tractu temporis non convalescit (4 Rep. 2), that which is bad from the beginning does not improve by length of time....


Quod approbo non reprobo

Quod approbo non reprobo, (That which I approve I do not reject.) In other words, if one takes a benefit under a deed or will, he must perform any condition attached to it....


Quod billa cassetur

Quod billa cassetur, means that the bill be quashed. The common-law form of a judgment sustaining a plea in abatement that proceeds from a bill instead of an original writ, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1262....


Quod clerici beneficiati de cancellaria, etc.

Quod clerici beneficiati de cancellaria, etc., a writ to exempt a clerk of the Chancery from the contribution towards the proctors of the clergy in Parliament, etc., Reg. Brev. 261....


Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc

Quod clerici non eligantur inofficio ballivi, etc., a writ which lay for a clerk, who, by reason of some land he had, was made, or was about to be made, bailiff, beadle, reeve, or some such officer, to obtain exemption from serving the office, Reg. Brev. 187....


Quod computet

Quod computet, an interlocutory judgment or decree in a matter of account. See now ACCOUNT....


Quod constat curi' opere testium non indiget

Quod constat curi' opere testium non indiget. 2 Inst. 662, (What is manifest to the Court needs not the help of witnesses.) see JUDICIAL NOTICE....


Quod contra legem fit, pro infecto habetur

Quod contra legem fit, pro infecto habetur (4 Rep. 31), what is done contrary to law is considered as not done....


Quod contra rationem juris receptum, non est producendum ad consequentias

Quod contra rationem juris receptum, non est producendum ad consequentias (D. 50, 17, 141), that which is received against the reason of the law is not to be advanced to a precedent....



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