Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

duplex querela

1. Hist. Eccles. law. An appeal by a clerk to the archbishop in response to the bishop's delaying or wrongfully refusing to do justice. ( It is a double quarrel in that sometimes the archbishop orders a judge considering parallel proceedings not to take any action against the complainant during the pendency of the suit. 2. Eccles. law. An appeal to a person's immediate superior, as when a bishop appeals to an archbishop. - Also termed double quarrel; double complaint.