QUORN 



matches it is usual to reckon all 

 quoits as foul which arc more than 

 18 ins. from the pin. 



Quom. Premier English hunt. 

 The name is taken from Quorndon 

 in Leicestershire. The country 

 hunted is regarded as the best 

 country in England. It is about 

 20 m. by 20 m. in area, Lough - 

 borough being roughly its centre, 

 although Melton Mowbray is more 

 frequented as such. The kennels 

 are near Barrow-on-Soar, and the 

 hounds are the property of the 

 members. The country is said to 

 have been hunted in the latter part 

 of the 17th century by Thomas 

 Boothby with the first pack of fox- 

 hounds in England, but the pack 

 was not definitely established until 

 the 18th under the mastership of 

 Hugo Meynell. Its masters have 

 included some famous hunting men, 

 among them Squire Osbaldeston, 

 Assheton Smith, and the earl of 

 Lonsdale. See Fox-hunting ; con- 

 sult also The Quorn Hunt and its 

 Masters, W. C. A. Blew, 1898. 



Quorndon. Village and urban 

 dist. of Leicestershire, England. It 

 stands on the Soar, 9 m. from 

 Leicester and 2 m. from Lough- 

 borough, with a station, Quorn and 

 Woodhouse, on the G.C. Ely. S. 

 Bartholomew's Church, mainly an 

 Early English building restored, 

 has some interesting 16th century 

 tombs. The village is the head- 

 quarters of the Quorn hunt. Pop. 

 2,400. 



Quorra OR KWARA. Native name 

 applied to the navigable section of 

 the Niger river which flows through 

 the Hausa country. 



Quorum (Lat., of whom ? ). 

 Term used for the minimum number 

 of persons necessary to form a 

 meeting, at which the business of a 

 company, club, or other associa- 

 tion is transacted. In. the case of 

 public companies the articles of 

 Association declare usually what is 



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by-laws. In the British House of 

 Commons the quorum is forty, and 

 in the House of Lords it is thirty. 



There is no general law on the 

 subject of a quorum, but a proviso 

 of this kind is necessary to prevent 

 a mere handful of persons from 

 binding the whole body by their 

 action. In both chambers of con- 

 gress of the United States and of 

 the French parliament the quorum 

 is a majority of the members of 

 each house. The word was origin- 

 ally used in this sense in the com- 

 mission appointing justices of the 

 peace in England, .and its later 

 uses are derived therefrom. 



Quota (Lat. quotus, how great?). 

 In law, the proportion of a contri- 

 bution, generally the proportion of 

 a tax or levy by the crown. In 

 England it was used for the num- 

 ber of men which the different 

 towns and districts were expected 

 to contribute to the armed forces, 

 and also for the amount levied on 

 the various localities on account of 

 the land tax (q.v. ). It is also used 

 under a system of proportional 

 representation (q.v.). 



Quotation. Passage extracted 

 from the speech or writings of 

 another, and usually defined by 

 quotation marks. There are many 

 books of quotations. In some,where 

 foreign authors are quoted, the 

 original text is accompanied by a 

 translation, as in H. T. Riley's 

 Dictionary of Classical Quotations, 

 the series of Beautiful Thoughts 

 from Greek, Latin, French, Italian, 

 German, and Spanish Authors com- 

 piled by C. T. Ramage, and Cassell's 

 Classified Quotations, edited by 

 W. Gurney Benham. Bartlett's 

 Familiar Quotations and Stokes' 

 Cyclopaedia of Familiar Quota- 

 tions are also useful works of 

 this class. The term quotation is 

 also used in business circles for the 

 actual price at which an article can 

 be obtained. Day by day the 



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published in the papers, while 

 dealers in other commodities have 

 various methods of making their 

 prices public. 



Quotidian Fever. Form of in- 

 termittent fever in which there are 

 recurring paroxysms every day 

 (Lat. quotidie). 



Quo Vadis (Lat., Whither 

 goest Thou ?). Title of a novel by 

 the Polish writer Henryk Sien- 

 kiewicz (q.v. ). It deals with the 

 persecutions of the early Christians 

 in Rome under Nero, and, published 

 in 1895, was first translated into 

 English in 1896. It has also been 

 translated into all the principal 

 languages of the world. A drama- 

 tised version was produced at the 

 Adelphi Theatre, London, in 1900, 

 and an elaborate cinematograph 

 film of the story was made in 

 Italy in 1912. 



Quo Warranto (Lat., by what 

 warrant ? ). Writ of inquiry insti- 

 tuted in England by Edward I in 

 1278. The king had been seriously 

 injured by encroachments on Ms 

 royal privileges from time to time, 

 and so he appointed commissions 

 to examine the warrants by which 

 the various barons and corpora- 

 tions owned land and exercised 

 jurisdiction. Consequent ly, if the 

 title was found defective the land 

 could be recovered for the crown. 

 It was when interrogated under 

 one of them that Earl Warrenne 

 threw down an old sword, telling 

 the king's men that by that sword 

 his ancestors had won his lands, 

 and by the same sword he would 

 keep them. In modern times in- 

 formation in the nature of a quo 

 warranto is a civil process, with 

 special reference to municipal of- 

 fices, though it has been replaced in 

 certain cases by an election peti- 

 tion under the Municipal Corpora- 

 tions Act, 1882. 



Q.V. Abbrev. for the Latin 

 quod vide, meaning which see. 



Quoits. A game of quoits on an Essex village green. The 



diagrams show. A, a ringed quoit ; B, a cutter ; C, a 



quoit pitched true ; and how the quoit should be held 



the number of directors necessary 

 to form a quorum, and in other 

 cases it is laid down by rules or 



quotations on the 

 various Stock 

 Exchanges are 



