In Scotch law. The term of four years allowed to a minor, after his majority, in which he may by suit or action endeavor to annul any deed to his prejudice, granted during his minority. Bell
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QUADRIPARTITE
Divided into four parts. A term applied.in conveyancing to an indenture executed ln four parts
QUADRIENNTDM
Lat. In the civil law. The four-years course ot study re-qulred to be pursued by law-students before they were qualified to study the Code or collection of imperial constltutlotB. See Inst proem
QUADRANTATA TERRS
In old
QUADRARIUM
In old records. A stone-pit or quarry. Cowell
QUADRANT
An angular measure of ninety degrees
QUADRAGESIMALS
offerings former-ly made, on Mid-Lent Sunday, to the mother church
QUACUNQUE VTA DATA
Lat. whichever way you take it
QUADRAGESIMA
Lat The fortieth. The first Sunday iu Lent is so called because it is about the fortieth day before Easter. Oowell
QUACK
A pretender to medical skill which he does not possess; one who practices as a physician or surgeon without adequate preparation or due qualification. See El-mergreen v. Horn, 115 wis. 385, 91 N. W. 973
Q. B
970