Law Dictionary Definitions

quick asset.See ASSET. [Blacks Law 8th]

qui cedit foro (kwIsee-dit for-oh). [Latin] Hist. One who stops payment; one who becomes bankrupt. [Blacks Law 8th]

quibus non existentibus (kwib-<<schwa>>s non ek-si-sten-t<<schwa>>-b<<schwa>>s). [Latin] Scots law. Whom failing. • In a disposition, this phrase appeared in reference to one or more who never existed. Cf. QUIBUS DEFICIENTIBUS. [Blacks Law 8th]

quibus deficientibus (kwib-<<schwa>>s di-fish-ee-en-ti-b<<schwa>>s). [Latin] Hist. Scots law. Who failing. • In a disposition, this phrase appeared in reference to one or more who succeeded to an estate and then died. Cf. QUIBUS NON EXISTENTIBUS . [Blacks Law 8th]

quia-timet injunction.See INJUNCTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

quia timet (kwI-<<schwa>> tI-m<<schwa>>t orkwee-<<schwa>> tim-et). [Latin “because he fears”] A legal doctrine that allows a person to seek equitable relief from future probable harm to a specific right or interest. [Cases: Equity 17. C.J.S. Equity § 55.] “A second class of cases where equity courts act to prevent injury are known as ‘quia timet’…

quia succedunt in universum jus quod defunctus habuit (kwI-<<schwa>> orkwee-<< schwa>> s<<schwa>>k-see-d<<schwa>>nt in yoo-ni-v<<schwa>>r-s<<schwa>>m j<< schwa>>s kwod di-f<<schwa>>ngk-t<<schwa>>s hab-yoo-it). [Latin] Roman & Scots law. Because they succeed to every right that the decedent had. • The phrase appeared in reference to the position of heirs-at-law. [Blacks Law 8th]

quia ita lex scripta est (kwI-<<schwa>> orkwee-<<schwa>> I-t<<schwa>> leks skrip-t<<schwa>> est). [Latin “because the law is so written”] Hist. Because that is the text of the statute. [Blacks Law 8th]

quia erronice emanavit (kwI-<<schwa>> i-roh-n<<schwa>>-see em-<<schwa>>-nay-vit). [Law Latin] Hist. Because it issued erroneously. [Blacks Law 8th]

  Quia Emptores (kwI-<<schwa>> orkwee-<<schwa>> emp-tor-eez). [Latin “since purchasers”] Hist. A statute giving fee-simple tenants (other than those holding directly of the Crown) the power to alienate their land and bind the transferee to perform the same services for the lord as the transferor had been obliged to perform. • The statute, enacted in 1290,…