Category: Q

a matter that will be decided in a court of law.

a question asked of a witness by the attorney that suggests the answer to be given.

A question that is not answered in terms of the law. The question may be answered by a jury in a court of law.

A question that ha sbeen raised about a point of law. It is not answered by the jury but will be answered by the judge.

The investigation of documentts to degermine the level of legality. The documents will have been notified due to a fruadulent practice or situation. Also any investigation of documents to do with illegal activities.

A list of questions used primarily to conduct research. Four purposes are used for questionnaires. 1. to collect data on a specific topic. 2. to compare data. 3. to keep bias to a minimum when designing questions. 4. to make questions interesting so people will want to answer them.

In old English law. A starter of lawsuits, or prosecutions; also a person chosen to inquire into abuses, especially such as relate to weights and measures; also a church-warden.

Lat. In Romau law. Certain officers, two in number, who were deputed by the comitia, as a kind of commissiou, to search out and try all cases of parricide and murder. They were probably appointed annually. Maine, Anc. Law, 370.

The request fro information from a data base. It is in the form of a question and it can be asked about any subject that is contained in the specific database.

Lat. A writ of nuisance, which, by 15 Edw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caused the nuisance to the damage of his neighbor. Cowell. Qui abjurat regnum amittit regnum, sed non regem; patriam, sed non patrem patriae. 7 Coke, 9. He who abjures the realm leaves the realm, but not the king; the country, but not the father of the country. Qui accusat integree famse sit, et non criminosus. Let him who accuses be of clear fame, and not criminal. 3 Inst 20. Qui acquirit sibi acquirit hacredibus. He who acquires for himself acquires for his heirs. Tray. Lat. Max. 496. Qui adimit medium dirimit finem. He who takes away the mean destroys the end. Co. Litt 101a. He that deprives a man of the mean by which he ought to come to a thing deprives him of the thing itself. Id.; Litt