locus in quon.
/ˌləʊkəs ɪn ˈkwəʊ/, /ˌlɒkəs ɪn ˈkwəʊ/, U.S. /ˌloʊkəs ɪn ˈkwoʊ/ 1. Law. The location at which an alleged trespass has been committed, or where a distraint has been made. Now also more generally: the scene of an alleged offence or disputed event.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > in which something takes place or prevails
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > trespass > land on which
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a1638 R. Brownlow & J. Gouldsborough Rep. Diverse Cases (1651) 176 A second deliverance must not vary in the place; a disclaimer goeth to the locus in quo, &c.
1682 A. Colquitt Mod. Rep. 105 In case of an Action of Trespass brought for Fishing there, it is prima facie a good justification to say, that the locus in quo is brachium maris.
a1715 W. Salkeld Rep. Cases King's Bench (1717) 1 94 The Plaintiff demurred, because here are two Places alledged and the Avowant has only answered to the locus in quo, &c. which is but one of the two Places.
1798 J. Wentworth Compl. Syst. Pleading VIII. Index p. clxvii Plea says locus in quo was a field within his own manor of H. and that the defendant, de injuria, distrained his cattle there.
1820 Starkie Rep. Cases N.P. II. 464 It was contended on his part, that the locus in quo belonged to Lady Smith in right of her manor, as being part of the wastes of that manor.
1886 Atlantic Reporter 6 442 The plaintiff put in evidence two surveys as the origin of his title to the locus in quo.
1921 Southern Reporter 88 621/2 It is assumed, but not decided, that the dedicator owned the locus in quo and also the land dedicated for the street easement.
1953 Times 19 Feb. 2/5 The locus in quo was a block of flats in Ealing... The complaints by the parties against each other were those of causing a continual nuisance by noise.
2007 Smithsonian Feb. 48/1 The entire court in the trial of Tom Cholmondely would be visiting locus in quo, as the periwigged lawyers put it—at the scene of the killing of Robert Njoya.
2. The place in question; the (notional) location of something.
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?1805 J. T. Allingham Weathercock i. i. 6 O. F. You are welcome to Whimshall. Brief. Whimshall—the locus in quo—good.
1822 New Monthly Mag. 4 503 Dublin..is the Westminster of Ireland, and is accordingly the locus in quo of judges, barristers, attorneys, &c.
1892 T. de C. Atkins Kelt or Gael i. 10 [They] suggest that the Aryan was a native of some cold part of Western Europe—Southern Scandinavia seems the latest favourite locus in quo.
1946 Amer. Hist. Rev. 52 151 Gifford Pinchot and I had for each other a close friendship for a number of years that was not broken because of our differences over the locus in quo of Forestry.
1997 T. B. Dyrberg Circular Struct. of Power 190 The undecidability of the political structure is also found at the institutional level, which is the locus in quo for power struggles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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