Category: Q

In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate which he was required by law to leave to a child whom he had adopted and afterwards emancipated or unjustly disinherited, being one- fourth of his property. See Mackeld. Rom. Law,

To overthrow ; to abate; to annul ; to make void. Spelman ; 3 Bl. Comm. 303; Crawford v. Stewart, 38 Pa. 34; Holland v. Webster, 43 Fla. 85, 29 South. 625; Bosley v. Bruner, 2 Cushm. (Miss.) 402.

In Roman law. That portion of a testator’s estate which, by the Falcidian law. was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth. See Mackeld. Rom. Law,

The fourth part of anything, especially of a year. Also a length of four inches. In England, a measure of corn, generally reckoned at eight bushels, though subject to local variations. See Hospital St. Cross v. Lord Howard De Walden, 0 Term, 343. In American land law, a quarter section of land. See infra. And see McCartney v. Dennison, 101 Cal. 252, 35 Pac. 706.

In English law. A criminal court held before two or more justices of the peace, (one of whom must be of the quorum,) in every county, once in every quarter of a year. 4 Bl. Comm. 271; 4 Steph. Comm. 335. In American law. Courts established in some of the states, to be holden four times in the year, invested with criminal jurisdiction, usually of offenses less than felony, and sometimes with the charge of certain administrative matters, such as the care of public roads and bridges.

The seperation of an asset that is intangible and is divided into four quarters or equal pieces. An example is dividing the ownership of a property among four parties.

This describes an area of land that is usually 160 acres.

In English criminal law. The dividing a criminal’s body into quarters, after execution. A part of the punishment of high treason. 4 Bl. Comm. 93.

The act of a government in billeting or assigning soldiers to private houses, without the consent of the owners of such houses, and requiring such owners to supply them with board or lodging or both.

A period of time (theoretically forty days) during which a vessel, coming from a place where a contagious or infectious disease is prevalent, is detained by authority in the harbor of her port of destination, or at a station near it, without being permitted to land or to discharge her crew or passengers. Quarantine is said to have been first established at Venice in 1484. Baker, Quar. 3. In real property. The space of forty days during which a widow has a right to remain in her late husband’s principal mansion immediately after his death. The right of the widow is also called her “quarantine.” See Davis v. Lowden, 56 N. J. Eq. 126, 38 Atl. 648; Glenn v. Glenn, 41 Ala. 580; Spinning v. Spinning, 43 N. J. Eq. 215, 10 Atl. 270.