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Meaning of Quia

(Lat.) In pleading. Because. This word is considered a term of affirmation. It is sufficiently direct and positive for introducing a material averment. 1 Saund. 117, note 4; Comyn, Dig. “Pleader” (C 77),

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Quia in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

Latin. Because.

Note: This legal definition of Quia in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

Concept of “Quia”

Traditional meaning of quia in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Because. Quia dominus remisit curiam (because the lord has remitted his court): a phrase used in, and applied to, a writ of right brought originally in the King’s court, and not in the manorial court; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 195. Quia emptores: the Statute of Westminster III.; 18 Edw. I. c. 1, by which subinfeudation was abrogated; providing that owners of freehold land might freely sell their lands, but that the grantee should hold of the lord paramount, as did the grantor, and by the same services; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 91. Quia erronice emanavit: because it issued erroneously. Quia timet: see BILL, I. 14.

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Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Quia”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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