Quaere: Latin for "query" as in an issue on which some doubt or question exists. | Legal Definition of Quaere

Quaestor: In ancient Roman law, senior legal advisor. | Legal Definition of Quaestor

Qualified Immunity: Shields public official from any litigation in regards to acts undertaken in good faith. | Legal Definition of Qualified Immunity

Qualified Privilege: A defence in defamation actions that defeats the claim when the alleged defamation issues during specified occasions. | Legal Definition of Qualified Privilege

Quam legem exteri nobis posuere, eandem illis ponemus: Latin: What law is imposed by foreign powers on our merchants, we will impose on their's. | Legal Definition of Quam legem exteri nobis posuere, eandem illis ponemus

Quantum: Latin: amount or extent. | Legal Definition of Quantum

Quantum Meruit: Latin: as much as is deserved. | Legal Definition of Quantum Meruit

Quash: To set aside. | Legal Definition of Quash

Quasi-Contract: Civil law: a contract implied and imposed by law resulting from certain actions of a person. | Legal Definition of Quasi-Contract

Quasi-Delict: Civil law: a delict (wrong) caused by negligence. | Legal Definition of Quasi-Delict

Quasi-Judicial: Administrative tribunals or government officials which, in their decision-making process, are subject to the rules of natural justice. | Legal Definition of Quasi-Judicial

Queen's Bench: Originally, the common criminal court of the common law; later, the general superior court. | Legal Definition of Queen's Bench

Queen's Counsel: An archaic designation of a barrister, phased out in most jurisdiction, indicating of its title holder faithfulness to the Crown, but more recently, contribution to the profession of lawyers. | Legal Definition of Queen's Counsel

Quesas: Muslim law: the right of a person who has suffered corporal injuries by the act of another, to inflict, or have inflicted similar injuries upon the aggressor. | Legal Definition of Quesas

Question of Discretion: Where an appeal predominantly takes issue with the lower court's exercise of judicial discretion. | Legal Definition of Question of Discretion

Question of Fact: Questions about what actually took place between the parties. | Legal Definition of Question of Fact

Question of Law: Questions touching the scope, effect or application of a rule of law which the courts apply in determining the rights of parties. | Legal Definition of Question of Law

Question of Mixed Law and Fact: An appellate standard of review of a lower court's order where the appeal issues are divided between question(s) of fact and question(s) of law. | Legal Definition of Question of Mixed Law and Fact

Question of Privilege: A term of parliamentary law and procedure which refers to an urgent motion made at a meeting which seeks an immediate ruling on an alleged violation of the rights or privileges of members as a whole, or in regards to a negative personal remark. | Legal Definition of Question of Privilege

Qui Facit Per Alium Facit Per Se: Latin: he who acts through another, acts himself. | Legal Definition of Qui Facit Per Alium Facit Per Se

Qui Jure Suo Utitur Neminem Facit Injuriam: Latin: he who exercises his legal rights harms no one. | Legal Definition of Qui Jure Suo Utitur Neminem Facit Injuriam

Qui Non Obstat Quod Obstare Potest, Facere Videtur: Latin: an individual who does not prevent something which he/she could of prevented, is taken to have done that thing. | Legal Definition of Qui Non Obstat Quod Obstare Potest, Facere Videtur

Qui Prior Est Tempore, Potior Est Jure: Latin: he who is earlier in time is stronger in law. | Legal Definition of Qui Prior Est Tempore, Potior Est Jure

Qui Tam: Latin: who as well. | Legal Definition of Qui Tam

Quia Emptores: A 1290 English statute that held that notwithstanding the subdivision (subinfeudation) of a feeholding; the new tenant owed feudal rights and obligations not to the seller but to the Land Lord. | Legal Definition of Quia Emptores

Quick Take: A formal process of the exercise of eminent domain in which the government takes possession before the adjudication of compensation. | Legal Definition of Quick Take

Quicquid Plantatur Solo, Solo Cedit: Latin: whatever is planted in the ground, belongs to the ground. | Legal Definition of Quicquid Plantatur Solo, Solo Cedit

Quid Pro Quo: Latin: something for something. | Legal Definition of Quid Pro Quo

Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment: Workplace harassment which conditions employment or promotion on sexual favors. | Legal Definition of Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment

Quiet Enjoyment: A landlord's obligation to provide the tenant with reasonable privacy and freedom from any interference with the tenant's exclusive use and enjoyment of the rented premises. | Legal Definition of Quiet Enjoyment

Quistclose Trust: A trust which arises to the benefit of the donor when property is advanced for a specific purpose and that purpose fails. | Legal Definition of Quistclose Trust

Quitclaim: A document in which a person who has an alleged interest in real property, transfers this interest to another. | Legal Definition of Quitclaim

Quo Warranto: Latin: legal procedure taken to stop a person or organization from doing something for which it may not have the legal authority, by demanding to know by what right they exercise the controversial authority. | Legal Definition of Quo Warranto

Quod Remedio Destituitur Ipsa Re Valet, Si Culpa Absit: Latin: That which is without a remedy is valid by the thing itself, if there be no fault. | Legal Definition of Quod Remedio Destituitur Ipsa Re Valet, Si Culpa Absit

Quorum: The minimum number of voting members that must be in attendance at a meeting of an organization for that meeting to be regularly constituted. | Legal Definition of Quorum