Quoad Sacra - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: quoad sacraQuoad sacra
Quoad sacra, means as to sacred things; for religious purposes. This term often referred to property that was located so far from the parish to which it belonged that it was annexed quoad sacra to another parish, allowing the inhabitants to attend the closer parish's services. But the land continued to belong to the original parish for all civil purposes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1262....
Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam. Sed in expositione instrumentorem mala grammatica quoad fieri possit evitanda est
Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam. Sed in expositione instrumentorem mala grammatica quoad fieri possit evitanda est [Lat.], Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. But in the interpretation of instruments, bad grammer, so far as it can be done, is to be avoided....
Necessitas inducit privilegium quoad jura privata
Necessitas inducit privilegium quoad jura privata [Lat.], necessity induces, or gives, a privilege as to private rights....
Quoad hoc
Quoad hoc (as to this)....
Quod hoc
Quod hoc, means as to this; with respect to this; so far as this is concerned. A prohibition quoad hoc is a prohibition of certain things among others, such as matters brought in an ecclesiastical court that should have been brought in a temporal court, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1262....
Warrant of Attorney
Warrant of Attorney, a written authority addressed to one or more solicitors to appear for the party executing it, and receive a statement of claim for him in an action at the suit of a person therein mentioned, and thereupon to confess the same, or to suffer judgment to pass by default and to permit judgment to be entered up against him. The practice of giving warrants of attorney is seldon resorted to. A warrant of attorney may be executed as a security for the performance of any agreement between the parties; but it does not extinguish an original debt, or affect the right to sue upon it, unless judgment has been signed, for until this is done it is merely a collateral security. It is usual to make the warrant subject to be defeated on the performance of certain conditions, and when this is the case, they are set forth in an agreement hence called the defeasance.The Debtors Act, 1869, contains various provisions in regard to warrants of attorney, e.g., they must be executed in the p...
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