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?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. pr. vi. 74 Ne it ne scholde nat semen to us that God is eldere than thinges that ben imaked by quantite of tyme [L. temporis quantitate], but rathir by the proprete of his simple nature.

c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 152 (MED) My purpose is her to determyne of þe four tymys of þe yer and of þe qualyte and quantyte and þe propyrte of iche part, and of þe varyacion of hem.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. G vij According to the quantitie of the yere, obserueit in that age to contene 304 dayes.

1729 M. Wright Introd. Law Tenures iii. 147 Our Lawyers divide these Tenures, according to their Duration, or what they call the Quantity of Estate, into Estates in Fee, for Life, for Years, and at Will.

1799 F. Hargrave Three Arguments Two Causes in Chancery 118 This doctrine of protracting executory devise to the prejudice of unborn persons through considering them as actually born, in order to exclude them, or to abridge their quantity of estate.

1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 46/1 Where the word Estate is used in its technical sense, it..[means] the quantity and quality of enjoyment of the thing.

1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law I. 735/1 Before 1926 legal estates in land of freehold tenure were divisible with reference to their quantity, or the extreme limit of their duration, into estates of freehold or less than freehold.

1987 B. A. Garner Dict. Mod. Legal Usage 456/2 The quantity of estate is 99 years.

1999 M. J. K. Williams Sexual Pathways iii. 29 I think I'm more concerned about the quality of my life and my experiences than I am about the quantity of my life.