QUID PRO1 QUO. This phrase signifies verbatim, what for what. It is applied2 to the consideration of a contract. See Co. Litt. 47, b; 7 Mann. Gr. 998.
QUIDAM, French law. Some, one; somebody. This Latin word is used to express an unknown person, or one who cannot be named.
2. A quidam is usually described by the features of his face, the color of his hair, his height, his clothing, and the like in any process which may be issued against him. Merl. Repert. h. t.; Encyclopedie, h. t.
3. A warrant directing the officer to arrest the associates of persons named, without naming them, is void. 3 Munf. 458.
QUIET ENJOYMENT3. In leases there are frequently covenants5 by which the lessor agrees that the lessee6 shall peaceably enjoy the premises7 leased; this is called a covenant4 for quiet enjoyment. This covenant goes to the possession and not to the title. 3 John. 471; 5 John. 120; 2 Dev. R. 388; 3 Dev. R. 200. A covenant for quiet enjoyment does not extend as far as a covenant of warranty8. 1 Aik. 233.
2. The covenant for quiet enjoyment is broken only by an entry, or lawful9 expulsion from, or some actual disturbance10 in, the possession. 3 John. 471; 15 John. 483; 8 John. 198; 7 Wend. 281; 2 Hill, 105; 2 App. R. 251; 9 Metc. 63; 4 Whart. 86; 4 Cowen, 340. But the tortious entry of the covenantor11, without title, is a breach12 of the covenant for quiet enjoyment. 7 John. 376.
QUIETUS, Eng. law. A discharge; an acquittance.
2. It is an instrument by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors13 in the exchequer14, as proof of their acquittance or discharge to accountants. Cow. Int. h. t.
QUlNTAL. A weight of one hundred pounds
QUlNTO EXACTUS, Eng. law. The fifth call or last requisition of a defendant15 sued to outlawry16.
QUIT CL人工智能M, conveyancing. By the laws of Connecticut, it is the common practice there for the owner of land to execute a quit claim deed to a purchaser who has neither possession nor pretence17 of claim, and as by the laws of that state the delivery of the deed amounts to the delivery of possession, this operates as a conveyance18 without warranty. It is, however, essential that the land should not, at the time of the conveyance, be in the possession of a stranger, holding adversely19 to the title of the grantor. l Swift's Dig. 133; 2 N. H. R. 402; 1 Cowen, 613; and vide Release.
