DUPLEX QUERELA

duplex querela (d[y]oo-pleks kw<<schwa>>-ree-l<<schwa>>).1.Hist. Eccles. law. An appeal

by  a  clerk  to  the  archbishop  in  response  to  the  bishop’s  delaying  or  wrongfully  refusing  to  do

justice. 2.Eccles. law. An appeal to a person’s immediate superior, as when a bishop appeals to an

archbishop. — Also termed double quarrel; double complaint. [Blacks Law 8th]