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Qui rationem in omnibus quarunt rationem subvertunt

Qui rationem in omnibus quarunt rationem subvertunt (2 Rep. 75a), They who search for reason in all things subvert reason.

Quo ligatur, Enquiry Officer dissolvitur

Quo ligatur, Enquiry Officer dissolvitur. 2 Rol. Rep. 21, (By the same mode by which a thing is bound, by that is it released.) Similarly, Quo

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.

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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.

Purview

statute as distinguished from the Preamble; the general scope and object of a statute, 2 Inst. 403; 12 Rep. 20.

Rasure, or Erasure

a deed by rasure, addition, or alteration becomes no deed, the defendant may plead non est factum, 5 Rep. 23, 119. A rasure or interlineation in a deed is presumed, in the absence of rebutting evidence, to

Reports, The

Reports, The. Coke's reports from 14 Eliz. to 13 Jac. 1, which are usually quoted as 'Rep.' They are

Quando aliquid mandatur, mandatur et omne per quod pervenitur ad illud

Quando aliquid mandatur, mandatur et omne per quod pervenitur ad illud. 5 Rep. 116, (When anything is commanded, everything by which it can be accomplished is also commanded.)

Picture

and N.W. Ry. Co., (1870) LR 5 Ex. 90]; and see CARRIER. A picture may be libellous (5 Rep. 125); consult Odgers on Libel.

Purchase, Words of

in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase' (1 Rep. 104 a; Van Grutten v. Foxwell, 1897, AC 658). The rule has been abolished in regard to all

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