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quarterly report.A financial report issued by a corporation (and by most mutual funds and investment managers) every three months. [Blacks Law 8th]

quartering,n. Hist. 1.The dividing of a criminal’s body into quarters after execution, esp. as part of the punishment for a crime such as high treason. See HANGED, DRAWN, AND QUARTERED. 2. The furnishing of living quarters to members of the military. • The Third Amendment generally protects people from being forced to use their homes…

quarter day.See DAY. [Blacks Law 8th]

quarter,n.1. In the law of war, the act of showing mercy to a defeated enemy by sparing lives and accepting a surrender <to give no quarter>.2. See quarter section under SECTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

quarta Trebellianica (kwor-t<<schwa>> tr<<schwa>>-bel-ee-an-<<schwa>>-k<< schwa>>). [Latin “the quarter due under Trebellianus’s senatus consultum”] Hist. The fourth portion that an heir could retain from a succession after transferring the succession as directed by the testator under a fideicommissum. — Also termed quarta Trebelliana (tr<<schwa>>-bel-ee-ay-n<< schwa>> or -an-<<schwa>>). Cf. FALCIDIAN PORTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

quarta Falcidiana (kwor-t<<schwa>> fal-sid-ee-an-<<schwa>>). [Latin “Falcidian fourth”] See FALCIDIAN PORTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

quarta divi Pii (kwor-t<<schwa>> dI-vIpI-I). [Latin “quarter of the deified Pius”] Roman law. The quarter portion of a testator’s estate required to be left to an adrogated child who had been unjustly emancipated or disinherited. [Blacks Law 8th]

quarrel. 1. An altercation or angry dispute; an exchange of recriminations, taunts, threats, or accusations between two persons. 2.Archaic. A complaint; a legal action. “Quarrels is derived from querendo, and extends not only to actions as well real as personal, but also to the causes of actions and suits: so that by the release of…

quare obstruxit (kwair-ee <<schwa>>b-str<<schwa>>k-sit), n.[Law Latin “why he obstructed”] Hist. A writ for one who could not enjoy a privilege to pass through a neighbor’s land because the neighbor had obstructed the path. [Blacks Law 8th]

quarentine. See QUARANTINE. [Blacks Law 8th]