audita querela

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment.

Word forms

audita querela audita querelas

Etymology

Latin audita querela (“the complaint having been heard”).

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