See Also: RIENS PASSA PAR LE FAIT(law)
quadrature(medicine)
quadrature(dictionary)

RIENS PASSA PAR LE FAIT (law) and quadrature (medicine)


RIENS PASSA PAR LE FAIT (law)


RIENS PASSA PAR LE FAIT. The name of a plea; it signifies that nothing passed by the deed; for example, when a deed is acknowledged in court, a man passed by the deed; for example, when a deed is acknowledged in court, a man cannot plead non est factum, because the act was done in court, which cannot cannot plead non est factum, because the act was done in court, which cannot be denied; but when the deed has been acknowledged in a court not having be denied; but when the deed has been acknowledged in a court not having jurisdiction, the party may avoid the effect or operation of the deed by jurisdiction, the party may avoid the effect or operation of the deed by pleading riens passa par le fait, for this plea does not impeach the court pleading riens passa par le fait, for this plea does not impeach the court where it was acknowledged. Bac. Ab. Evidence F; 1 Gilb. ET. by Lofft, 326. where it was acknowledged. Bac. Ab. Evidence F; 1 Gilb. ET. by Lofft, 326.

quadrature (medicine)


quadrature


1. <mathematics> The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.

2. A quadrate; a square.

3. <mathematics> The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable.

4. <astronomy> The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90 deg, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition.

Quadrature of the moon, a point in an orbit which is at either extremity of the latus rectum drawn through the empty focus of the orbit.

See: Quadrate.

Origin: L. Quadratura: cf. F. Quadrature.

Source: Websters Dictionary