English Explanatory Dictionary

quominus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

quominus

Etymology

From Latin quōminus.

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