a Latin term for the legal action to collect a penalty through supplied information.
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Qui non propulsat injuriam quando potest, infert. Jenk. Cent. 271. He who does not repel an Injury when he can, induces it. Qui obstruit aditum, destruit com- modum. lie who obstructs a way, passage, or entrance destroys a benefit or convenience. Co. Litt. 101a. lie who prevents another from entering upon laud destroys the benefit which lie has from it. Id. Qui ornne dicit nihil excludit. 4 lust. 81. lie who says all excludes uothing. Qui parcit nocentibns innocentes pun- it. Jenk. Cent. 133. He who spares the guilty puuishes the innocent. Qui peccat ebrius luat sobrius. He who sins when drunk shall be punished when sober. Cary, 133; Broom, Max. 17. Qui per alium facit per seipsum facere videtur. lie who does a thing by an agent is considered as doing it himself. Co. Litt. 258; Broom, Max. 817. Qui per fraudem agit frnstra agit. 2 Bolle, 17. What a man does fraudulently he does in vain. Qui potest et debet vetare, jubet. He who can and ought to forbid a thiug [if he do not forbid itj directs it 2 Kent, Comm. 483, note. Qui primum peccat ille facit rixarn. Godb. He who sins first makes the strife. Qui prior est tempore potior est jure. He who is before in time is the better in right. Priority in time gives preference in law. Co. Litt. 14ay 4 Coke, 90a. A maxim of very extensive application, both at law and iu equity. Broom, Max. 353-302; 1 Story, Eq. Jur.
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QUIA EMPTORES
“Because the purchasers.” The title of the statute of Westm. 3. (18 Edw. I. c. 1.) This statute took from the tenants of common lords the feudal liberty they claimed of disposing of part of their lands to hold of themselves, and, instead of it, gave them a general liberty to sell all or any part, to hold of the next sui>erior lord, which they could not have done before without consent. The effect of this statute was twofold: (1) To facilitate the alienation of fee-simple estates; and (2) to put an end to the creation of any new manors, i. e., tenancies in fee-simple of a subject. Brown.