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Quod nullius est, est domini regis

Quod nullius est, est domini regis. Fleta, 1. iii, (That which is the property of nobody belongs to our lord the King.) see ESCHEAT....


Quod partes replacitent

Quod partes replacitent, means 'that the parties do replead'. The judgment ordering repleader when as issue is formed on so immaterial point that the court does not know for whom to give a judgment. The parties must then reconstruct their pleadings, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1263....


Quod per me non possum, nec per alium

Quod per me non possum, nec per alium (4 Co. 24), what I cannot do in person, I cannot do by proxy....


Quod per recordum probatum, non debet esse negatum

Quod per recordum probatum, non debet esse negatum, (What is proved by record ought not to be denied.) See RECORD....


Quod permittat

Quod permittat, a writ which, before the abolition of real actions, lay against any person who erected a building, though on his own ground, so near to the house of another that it hung over or became a nuisance to it, Termes de la Ley, 479. Abolished. See Roscoe on Real Actions, p. 40.Means 'that he permit'. A writ to prevent an interference in the exercise of a right, such as a writ for the heir of someone disseised of a common of pasture against the heir of the disseisor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1263....


Quod permittat prosternere

Quod permittat prosternere, a writ, in the nature of a writ of right, to abate a nuisance, Fitz. N.B. 104. Abolished.Means 'that he permit to abate'. A writ to abate a nuisance, similar in nature to a petition of right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1263.Means this is a writ commanding the defendant to permit the plaintiff to abate, quod permittat prosternere, the nuisance complained of; and, unless he so permits, to summon him to appear in court, and show cause why he will not. And this writ lies as well for the alienee of the party first injured, as hath been determined by all the judges. And the plaintiff shall have judgment herein to abate the nuisance, and to recover damages against the defendant, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 3 William Blackstone 222 (1768)....


Quod persona nec prebendarii, etc.,

Quod persona nec prebendarii, etc., a writ which lay for spiritual persons distrained in their spiritual possessions for payment of a fifteenth with the rest of the parish, Fitz. N.B. 175. Obsolete....


Quod prius est verius est; et quod prius est tempore potius est jure

Quod prius est verius est; et quod prius est tempore potius est jure (Co. Litt. 347b), what is first is truer, and what is first in time is better in law....


Quod recuperet

Quod recuperet [Lat.] [that he do recover (the debt or damages)], a final judgment for a plaintiff in a personal action.Means that he do recover. The ordinary judgment for a plaintiff in an action at law. The judgment might be either final or interlocutory depending on whether damages had been ascertained at the time the judgment was rendered. Also termed judgment quod recuperet, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1263....


Quod remedio destituitur ipsa re valet si culpa absit

Quod remedio destituitur ipsa re valet si culpa absit (Bac. Max. Reg. 9), that which is without remedy avails of itself if there be no fault in the party seek-ing to enforce it....



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