Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Dos rationabilis vel legitima est cujuslibet mulieris de quocunque tenemento tertia pars omnium terrarum et tenementorum, quae vir suus tenuit in dominio suo ut de feodo, etc
Reasonable or legitimate dower belongs to every woman of a third part of all the lands and tenements of which her husband was seised in his demesne, as of fee, etc.
Quoties in stipulationibus ambigua oratio est, commodissimum est id accipi quo res de quo agitur in tuto sit
Whenever in stipulations the expression is ambiguous, it is most proper to give it that interpretation by which the subject matter may be in safety.
actum de quota litis
. [Latin "agreement about a portion the amount in issue"] An agreement in ,rich a creditor promises to pay a portion of t difficult-to-collect debt to a person attempting to collect it; an agreement to share the proceeds of a litigation.
de quo
[Latin] Of which. 0 These were formal words used in a writ of entry, as in a writ of entry "in the quo" or "in the quibus." - Also termed de quibus.