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work entitled " Scriptorcs Ordinis Prxdicatoi'uiii, cum 

 notisHilloricis," which was completed by tathcr Echard. 



(jUETREVILLE, in Geography, a town of France, 

 in the department of tlie Channel ; fix miles X. of Cou- 

 tances. 



QUETTEHOU, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Channel, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 

 triA of Valognes ; nine miles N.E. of Valoi^nes. The 

 place contains 1291, and the canton 14,956 inhabitants, on 

 a territory of ijo kiliometres, in iS communes. 



QUETTENBRUN, a town of AuRria ; eight miles 

 E. of Eaab. 



QUETZ, a town of Saxony, in the circle of Leipfic ; 

 two miles S.S.E. of Zorbig. 



QUE VAC AMPS, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of Jemappe, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 

 trift of Tournay. The place contains 955, and the can- 

 ton 10,264 inhabitants, on a territory of 1075 kihometres, 

 in 15 communes. 



QUEVAUVIELERS, a town of France, ill the de- 

 partment of the Somme ; eight miles S.W. of Amiens. 



QUEUE, in Commerce, a wine meafure ufed in fome 

 parts of France. A queue of Champaigne contains 384 

 pintes of Paris, or about 95 Englilli gallons ; a queue of 

 Burgundy contains 432 pintes of Paris, or 107 Englilh gal- 

 Ions. 



Ql^EUE, Fr. tail, as applied to the heads of mulical notes ; 

 the minim is the only white note with a tail to it, and the 

 crotchet the firll black note with a tail to it. 

 Queue, in Heraldry, the tail of a bealt. 

 If a lion has a forked tail, he is blazoned by double- 

 queued. 



QvEVE d'yfroeJe, q. d. /ivaHoiu's tail, in Fortificalwn, a 

 term applied to outworks, when narrower at the gorge than 

 at the face or front ; «. e. where the fides open towards the 

 champaign, and contraft towards the gorge. Tlie name is 

 occafioned by its refemblance, in figure, to a fwallow's tail, 

 which the French call queue d'aronde. 



Of this kind ai'e fome fingle as well as double tenailles ; 

 and fome horn-works whofe lides are not parallel. 



On the contrary, when the fides are lefs than the gorge, 

 the work is called conire queue d'aronde. 



Queue d'aronde, m Carpentry, a method of jointing, 

 called alfo dove-tail. 



QUEVEDO DE ViLLEGAs, Francisco, in Biography, 

 a celebrated Spanilh writer, was born at Madrid in 1570. 

 He became diltinguilhed at an early period for his literary 

 attainments, and obtained the honour of knighthood, but 

 indulging his iatirical vein too freely again ft the adminiftra- 

 tion of count d'Olivares, he was thrown into prifoii, from 

 whence he did not make his efcape till the difgrace of that 

 minifter. He died in the year 1645, at the age of 75. He 

 is regarded by his countrymen as having attained to a confi- 

 derable degree of excellence in moll of the different kinds of 

 compofition. His heroical poems are faid to be charafterized 

 by energy and fpirit ; his lyrical b y fweetnefs and beautv ; 

 and his humorous poems by eafe, pleafantry, and ingenious 

 invention. His printed works fil\ three vols. 4to. of which 

 two are occupied by poetry and one by profe. The former 

 were collefted by Jofeph Gonzales de Salas, whoilluftrated 

 them with notes and differtations. They were publiilied in 

 1650, at Madrid, under the title of " II Parnaffo Efpagnol." 

 The humorous pieces of Quevedo have rendered his name 

 bell known in foreign countries, and have been tranflated 

 into the Englifh and other languages. 



QUEVILLYj in Geography, » town of France, in 



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the department of the Lower Seine ; three miles W. of 

 Rouen. 



QUEULEN, a river of Chili, which runsinto the Pacific 

 ocean, S. lat. 39'-' 10'. 



QUEYPO, a town of Mexico, in the province of Coda 

 Rica, near the Pacific ocjean. 



QUEYRAS, a town of France, in tlic department of the 

 Higher Alps ; 12 miles S.E. of Briancjoii. 



QUEYTOR, a name fomctiines given to the river Ava, 

 at leall to that part wliich runs between Ava and Prom. 



QUI, \n Rural Economy, a common term frequently ap- 

 plied to the female of the cow kind of animals wliilc in the 

 young itate. It is the moll generally employed in the northern 

 parts of the country. Sec Why. 



Q[.'i-Ca/f, a name ufually made ufe of in the northern 

 parts of the ifland, to fignify a female or lieifer calf. See 

 Wu\--Ca(f. 



Qui Tiiin, in Law, is ufed where an information is exhi- 

 bited againll any perfon on a penal llatute at the fuit of the 

 king and the ])arty who is informer, when one part of the 

 penalty for breach of the llatute is to be given to the king, 

 the poor, or to fome public ule, and the other part to the in- 

 former or profecutor ; and the party informing profccutcs 

 for the king and himfelf. The fuit is called a qui tarn action, 

 becauie it is brought by a perfon, " qui tam pro domino rege, 

 &c. quam pro fe ipfo in hac parte fequitur." If the king, 

 therefore, himfelf commences this fuit, he fliall have the 

 whole forfeiture. (2 Hawk. P. C. 268.) But if any one 

 hath begun a " qui tam" or " popular" adtion, no other 

 perfon can purfue it ; and the verdift palled upon the defendant 

 in the firll fuit is a bar to all others, and conclufive even to 

 the king himfelf. This has frequently occafioned offenders 

 to procure their own friends to begin a fuit, in order to 

 toreltall and prevent other actions ; which praftice is in 

 fome mealure prevented by a llatute made in the reign of a 

 prince very Iharp-fightcd with regard to penal laws, viz. 

 4 Hen. VII. c. 20. ; which enaCls, th.it no recovery, otherwife 

 tlian by verditt, obtained by coUufion in an aftion popular, 

 fliall be a bar to any other atlion profecuted bond fide. A 

 provifion, fays judge Blackllone, that feems borrowed from 

 the rule of the Roman law, that if a. perfon was acquitted 

 of any accufation, merely by the prevarication of the accufer, 

 a new profecution might be commenced againll him. Ff. 47. 

 15. 3. See Ini'ormatiox. 



QUIA, in Logic. See Reason. 

 Quia dominus remijlt curiam, in Law. See Recto. 

 (^\Mt\ emptorcs, a denomination given to the llatute of 

 Wcllm. 3. 18 Edw. I. which diretls, that upon all fales or 

 feoffments of land, the feoffee Ihall liold the fame, not of 

 his immediate feoffor, but of tlie chief lord of the fee, of 

 whom fuch feoffor himfelf held it ; and hence it is held that 

 all manors exilling at this day mull have exilled by immemo- 

 rial prefcription, or at leaft ever lince this llatute was made : 

 for no new manor can have been created fincc that llatute ; 

 becaufe it is effential to a manor, that there be tenants who 

 hold of the lord, and that llatute enafts, that for the 

 future no fubjeft fhall create any new tenants to hold of 

 himfelf. 



Qui improvidi:, a fuperfedeas granted in many cafes wliere 

 a writ is erroneouly fued out, or mifawarded. 



Such is that granted in behalf of a clerk of the chancery 

 fued againll the privilege of the court, in the common pleas, 

 and purfned to the exigent. 



QUIADKOUA, in Geography, a town of Prulfia, in 

 tlic province of Bartenland ; nine miles S.E. of AUerlburg. 

 QUIBBLETOWN, a town, or rather a village of Ame- 

 rica, 



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