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1622 T. Powell Direct. Search of Rec. in Chancerie 70 Sometimes you shall finde Wills proued, and Administration granted in seuerall Diocesse (quoad) vnto seuerall parts or parcels of the estate of the Defunct.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xii. 191 Heretable, quoad, the party who destinat.

1742 G. Gilbert Rep. Cases Equity (ed. 2) 3 To supply the Defect of the Will quoad that Daughter.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. p. iv I do declare in verbo sacerdotis, that in case of any such prosecution, I will take the whole upon my own shoulders, even quoad fine and imprisonment.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon Concl. 462 It will operate beneficially, quoad the quantity applied.

1839 T. Arnold in Life (1844) II. ix. 149 The Order of Deacons, which has been long, quoad the reality, dead.

1872 E. Braddon Life in India iii. 58 His peculiar position..quoad the natives subject..to him.

1896 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 10 329 The book, in its narrative and descriptive portions, or the whole book quoad narrative and description, deserves high commendation.

1930 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 15 340 This original full responsibility of the master had in Frankish times become limited..if the case were otherwise, the act was considered an accident quoad the master.

1964 A. G. Walker & N. M. L. Walker Law of Evid. in Scotl. xxviii. 387 This has been laid down only quoad witnesses for the prosecution.

1992 Times (Nexis) 31 Jan. The aim was, quoad those shares, to ensure that the debtor did not act in a way which was destructive of the security he had given to the creditor.