Quod
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The word quod can refer to the following:
The word is also common in several Latin phrases used in different (English) contexts:
- The Quod, a contemporary nickname for the English Quota SystemQuota System (Royal Navy)The Quota System , introduced by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in 1795, required each English county to provide a quota of men for the Royal Navy, based on its population and the number of its seaports — London, for example, had to provide 5,704 quotamen, while Yorkshire had to...
during the Napoleonic Wars - a quod, the main playing item in the fictional sport of Quodpot in the Harry Potter universe
The word is also common in several Latin phrases used in different (English) contexts:
- per quodPer quodPer quod is a Latin phrase used to illustrate that the existence of a thing or an idea is on the basis of external circumstances not explicit.-Legal Example:...
- ad quod damnumAd quod damnumAd quod damnum or ad damnum is a Latin phrase meaning "According to the harm" or "appropriate to the harm." It is used in tort law as a measure of damage inflicted, and implying a remedy, if one exists, ought to correspond specifically and only to the damage suffered. It is also used in pleading,...
- nemo dat quod non habetNemo dat quod non habetNemo dat quod non habet, literally meaning "no one [can] give what he does not have" is a legal rule, sometimes called the nemo dat rule, that states that the purchase of a possession from someone who has no ownership right to it also denies the purchaser any ownership title...
- quod erat demonstrandumQ.E.D.Q.E.D. is an initialism of the Latin phrase , which translates as "which was to be demonstrated". The phrase is traditionally placed in its abbreviated form at the end of a mathematical proof or philosophical argument when what was specified in the enunciation — and in the setting-out —...
(often abbreviated "Q.E.D.")