quominus
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English
Etymology
Noun
quominus (uncountable)
- (law, historical, sometimes attributive) A writ and legal fiction that (until the late 19th century) allowed the Court of Exchequer to obtain a jurisdiction over cases normally brought in the Court of Common Pleas, based on having the plaintiff in a debt case claim that he was a debtor to the king, and that the defendant's debt prevented him paying the king.
- a quominus clause
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From instrumental quō + minus.
Pronunciation
Conjunction
quōminus
References
- “quominus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quominus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.