1. Quo Warranto

Latin, referring to a special legal procedure taken to stop a person or an organization from doing something for which it may not have the legal authority by demanding to know by what right they exercise the controversial authority.

2. Quorum

The minimum number of voting members that must be in attendance at a meeting of an organization for that meeting to be regularly constituted.

3. Quitclaim

A document in which a person who has an alleged interest in real property transfers this interest to another.

4. Quistclose Trust

A trust which arises to the benefit of the donor when property is advanced for a specific purpose and that purpose fails.

5. Qui Non Obstat Quod Obstare Potest, Facere Videtur

Latin, an individual who does not prevent something which he could have prevented, is taken to have done that thing.

6. Qui Facit Per Alium Facit Per Se

Latin, he who acts through another, acts himself.

7. Quiet Enjoyment

A landlord's obligation to provide the tenant with reasonable privacy and freedom from any interference with the tenant's exclusive use and enjoyment of the rented premises.

8. Quid Pro Quo

Latin, something for something.

9. Quicquid Plantatur Solo, Solo Cedit

Latin, whatever is planted in the ground, belongs in the ground.

10. Question Of Privilege

A term of parliamentary law and procedure which refers to an urgent motion made at a meeting which seeks an immediate ruling on an alleged violation of the rights or privileges of members as a whole, or in regards to a negative personal remark.