Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Quare
[Latin] Why; for what reason; on what account. 0 This was used in various common-law writs, esp. writs in trespass.
Quarentine
See QUARANTINE.
Square
n. 1. A certain portion of land within a city limit. - Also termed block. 2. A space set apart for public use. 3. In a government survey, an area measuring 24 by 24 miles.
antiquare
vb. [latin] roman law. 1. to reject a proposal for a new law. ( those who voted against a proposed law wrote on their ballots the letter "a" for antiquo ("i am for the old law"). 2. to repeal a law
causam nobis significes quare
[Latin "that you signify to us the cause why"] Hist. A writ ordering a town's mayor to give seisin of land to a grantee of the king.
quare clausum fregit
[Latin] Why he broke the close. -Abbr. qu. cl. fr.; q.c.f See TRESPASS QUARE CLAUSUM FREGIT.
quare ejecit infra terminum
n. [Law Latin "why he ejected within the term"] Hist. A writ for a lessee who was prematurely ejected, when the ejector was not actually in possession but one claiming under the ejector was. "For this injury the law has provided him with two remedies . . . the writ of ejectione firmae; . . . and the writ of quare ejecti infra terminum; which lies not against the wrongdoer or ejector himself, but his feoffee or other person claiming under him. These are mixed actions, somewhat between real and personal; for therein are two things recovered, as well restitution of the term of years, as damages for the ouster or wrong." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 199 (1768).
quare impedit
[Latin "why he hinders"] Hist. Eccles. law. A writ or action to enforce a patron's right to present a person to fill a vacant benefice. - Also termed writ of quare impedit. See PRESENTATION; ADVOWSON.
quare incumbravit
n. [Law Latin "why he incumbered"] Hist. A writ or action to compel a bishop to explain why he encumbered the church when, within six months after the vacation of a benefice and after a ne admittas was received, the bishop conferred the benefice on his clerk while two other clerks were contending for the right of presentation in a quare impedit action. ( The writ was abolished by the Real Property Limitation Act of 1833, ch. 27.
quare intrusit
n. [Law Latin "why he thrust in"] Hist. A writ allowing a lord to recover the value of a marriage, when the lord offered a suitable marriage to a ward but the ward rejected it and married someone else. ( It was abolished by the Tenures Abolition Act, 1660, ch. 24.
quare non permittit
n. [Law Latin "why he did not permit"] Hist. A writ for one who has a right to present to a church, against the proprietor.
quare obstruxit
n. [Law Latin "why he obstructed"] Hist. A writ for one who could not enjoy a privilege to pass through a neighbor's land because the neighbor had obstructed the path.
quarentena terrae
n. [Law Latin "a quantity of land"] Hist. A furlong.
scire facias quare restitutionem non
n. [Law Latin "that you cause to know why restitution not"] Hist. A writ for restitution after an execution on a judgment is levied but not paid and the judgment is later reversed on appeal.
trespass quare clausum fregit
[Latin "why he broke the close"] 1. A person's unlawful entry on another's land that is visibly enclosed. ( This tort consists of doing any of the following without lawful justification: (1) entering upon land in the possession of another, (2) remaining on the land, or (3) placing or projecting any object upon it. 2. At common law, an action to recover damages resulting from another's unlawful entry on one's land that is visibly enclosed. - Also termed trespass to real property; trespass to land; quare clausum querentis fregit. See trespass vi et armis. "Every unwarrantable entry on another's soil the law entitles a trespass by breaking his close; the words of the writ of trespass commanding the defendant to chew cause, quare clausum querentis fregit. For every man's land is in the eye of the law enclosed and set apart from his neighbour's: and that either by a visible and material fence, as one field is divided from another by a hedge; or, by an ideal invisible boundary, existing only in the contemplation of law, as when one man's land adjoins to another's in the same field. And every such entry or breach of a man's close carries necessarily along with it some damage or other: for, if no other special loss can be assigned, yet still the words of the writ itself specify one general damage, viz. the treading down and bruising his herbage." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 209-10 (1768).
writ of quare impedit
See QUARE IMPEDIT.