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Quo warranto, a writ issuable out of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, in the nature of a writ of right for the Crown against him who claims or usurps any office, franchise, or liberty to inquire 'by what authority' he supports his claim, in order to determine the right. It lies also in case of non-user or long neglect of a franchise, or mis-user or abuse of it, whereby it is forfeited.This proceeding was, until 1872, the one generally adopted for the purpose of trying the right to be elected to municipal offices, but the (English) Corrupt Practices (Municipal Elections) Act, 1872, by s. 12, replaced by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 87 [see now s. 71 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51)], substituted an election petition in the cases where an election is sought to be questioned on the ground of bribery, etc., disqualification, or undue return. By s. 84 of the Act of 1933, proceedings must be instituted within six...
Quo minus
Quo minus, a writ which lay for him who had a grant of house-bote and hay-bote in another's woods against the grantor making such waste whereby the grantee could the less enjoy his grant, Old N.B. 148.It also lay for the King's accountant in the Exchequer against any person against whom he had a right of action, and was called a quo minus because in it the plaintiff suggested that he was the King' farmer or debtor, and that the defendant had done himthe injury or damage complained of; quo minus sufficiens existit, by which he is less able to pay the King his debt or rent; see 3 Bl. Com. 45. Afterwards this suggestion of being debtor to the King was allowed to be inserted by any plaintiff who wished to proceed in that Court against any defendant, as a mere matter of form, and in this way the Court of Exchequer obtained a jurisdiction co-extensive with that of the Common Pleas in actions personal. The writ of quo minus was abolished by 2 Wm. 4, c. 39....
Status quo
Status quo, means condition or state of affairs as existing at that time should be maintained and the same should not be disturbed, Manju Kumari v. State of Bihar, (1966) 1 Pat LJR 363.Status quo, the existing state of things at any given date; e.g., Status quo ante bellum, the state of things before the war.According to the ordinary legal connotation, the term 'Status Quo' implies the existing state of things at any given point of time, Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1988 SC 127: (1988) 1 SCR 869.The situation that currently exists, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1420....
Status quo as in the High Court
Status quo as in the High Court, the expression 'status quo' is undoubtedly a term of ambiguity and at times gives rise to doubt and difficulty. According to the ordinary legal connotation, the term 'status quo' implies the existing state of things at any given point of time. The qualifying words 'as in the High Court' clearly limit the scope and effect of the status quo order, Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1988 SC 127 (129): 1987 Supp SCC 394....
Qui concedit aliquid, concedere videtur et id sine quo concessio est irrita, sine quo res ipsa esse non potuit
Qui concedit aliquid, concedere videtur et id sine quo concessio est irrita, sine quo res ipsa esse non potuit. 11 Co. 52, (He who conceded anything is considered as conceding that without which his concession would be void, without which the thing itself could not exist)....
Writ of quo warranto
Writ of quo warranto, a writ of quo warranto is a writ which lies against the person, who according to the relator is not entitled to hold an office of public nature and is only a usurper of the office. It is the person, against whom the writ of quo warranto is directed, who is required to show, by what authority that person is entitled to hold the office, B.R. Kapur v. State of Tamil Nadu, (2001) 7 SCC 231 (315)....
quo warranto
quo warranto [Medieval Latin, by what warrant; from the wording of the writ] 1 : an extraordinary writ requiring a person or corporation to show by what right or authority a public office or franchise is held or exercised 2 : a proceeding in the nature of a writ of quo warranto for determining by what authority or right an office or franchise is held or exercised and seeking as an extraordinary remedy the discontinuance of an unlawful exercise of office or franchise ...
status quo
status quo [Latin, state in which] : the existing state of affairs ;specif : the last actual and uncontested state of affairs that preceded a controversy and that is to be preserved by preliminary injunction compare status quo ante ...
status quo ante
status quo ante [Latin, state in which previously] : the state of affairs that existed previously [rescind the contract and restore the parties to the status quo ante] ...
In statu quo
In statu quo (in the condition in which it was). See STATUS QUO....
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